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Livestock/General Farming photo thread ***READ MOD NOTE IN POST #1***

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    #3092
    Bizzum
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    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Very little :D they will grow a bit of frame and a good fleece. There's no holding them back when they go to grass in the spring though, you wouldn't know them after a month of it.

    We used to outwinter before we became "sophisticated":D and the trive on grass thereafter is something else. I don't thing we ever fed 3kgs a head though, but who knows your set-up and needs better than yourself.


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    #3093
    bob charles
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    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Very little :D they will grow a bit of frame and a good fleece. There's no holding them back when they go to grass in the spring though, you wouldn't know them after a month of it.

    I was going to reply NONE, until I saw your response:D


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    #3094
    redzerologhlen
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    You have to admire nice work when you see it, the girlfriends auld lad had to put a trough in a part of the winterage for the burren life and he decided he was going to face it with stone, not something you would see every day!!

    photo-320.jpg

    Breakfast the other day when I was cutting bushes, hard to beat it :D

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    #3095
    Muckit
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    I hope you cracked an egg or two into the drippins after tipping out those bangers! ;)


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    #3096
    just do it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    You have to admire nice work when you see it, the girlfriends auld lad had to put a trough in a part of the winterage for the burren life and he decided he was going to face it with stone, not something you would see every day!!

    photo-320.jpg

    Breakfast the other day when I was cutting bushes, hard to beat it :D

    photo-2448.jpg
    There's more to farming life than just gross margin/ha :D


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    #3097
    pakalasa
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    I think you might have over done it on the cooking oil there, Redzer.


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    #3098
    redzerologhlen
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    Muckit wrote: »
    I hope you cracked an egg or two into the drippins after tipping out those bangers! ;)
    No eggs im afraid, I would never have managed to keep them intact on the way up.
    just do it wrote: »
    There's more to farming life than just gross margin/ha :D
    Id go as far as to say there is more of a margin out of cutting a few bushes with the chainsaw than farming ;)
    pakalasa wrote: »
    I think you might have over done it on the cooking oil there, Redzer.
    I'll pass that onto herself pak :D


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    #3099
    Muckit
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    Machinery shed
    nephewmachineryshed.jpg

    Slatted shed I made him
    nephewslattedshed.jpg


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    #3100
    Bizzum
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    Here's a set-up I came across in my travels today. A bit of thought went into it.


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    #3101
    Bodacious
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    Bizzum wrote: »
    Here's a set-up I came across in my travels today. A bit of thought went into it.

    What sort of money are them pasture pumps? He has fair operation there alright ... So pipe feeding them 4 is in a river somewhere And the cows pump it up to themselves
    ?


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    #3102
    Bizzum
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    Bodacious wrote: »
    What sort of money are them pasture pumps? He has fair operation there alright ... So pipe feeding them 4 is in a river somewhere And the cows pump it up to themselves
    ?

    They are around €300 each pump.

    Here's a clue to the river:D


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    #3103
    J DEERE
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    Bizzum wrote: »
    They are around €300 each pump.

    Here's a clue to the river:D

    Is that Newgrange in the background??


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    #3104
    Bizzum
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    J DEERE wrote: »
    Is that Newgrange in the background??

    It sure is. It's been there a while too:)


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    #3105
    bob charles
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    J DEERE wrote: »
    Is that Newgrange in the background??

    haven't NAMA taking control of it now since the developer went bust that built it?

    I was disappointed with the land around it, courted a young wan with land very close by;)


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    #3106
    kboc
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    bob charles wrote: »
    I was disappointed with the land around it, courted a young wan with land very close by;)

    was it not good for rolling in!


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    #3107
    Richk2012
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    A BB Heifer calf by PG's Canadian Club a week old today .
    Out of a Belgian Blue x Simmental 4th calver .
    She wouldnt suck for the first 4 days .
    Had to keep stomach tubing her twice a day .


    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231547.JPG

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231546.jpg

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231548.jpg


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    #3108
    Bigbird1
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    Richk2012 wrote: »
    A BB Heifer calf by PG's Canadian Club a week old today .
    Out of a Belgian Blue x Simmental 4th calver .
    She wouldnt suck for the first 4 days .
    Had to keep stomach tubing her twice a day .


    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231547.JPG

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231546.jpg

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231548.jpg


    Super outfit,big pull was there?


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    #3109
    just do it
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    Richk2012 wrote: »
    A BB Heifer calf by PG's Canadian Club a week old today .
    Out of a Belgian Blue x Simmental 4th calver .
    She wouldnt suck for the first 4 days .
    Had to keep stomach tubing her twice a day .


    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231547.JPG

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231546.jpg

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231548.jpg

    Smashing calf. Seems to be close to knuckling over on the front feet? Between that and the slow to suck you might be suspicious of selenium deficiency.


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    #3110
    Bigbird1
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    just do it wrote: »

    Smashing calf. Seems to be close to knuckling over on the front feet? Between that and the slow to suck you might be suspicious of selenium deficiency.

    Over the last 2 years we have had about 4 calves born knuckling,all cows were receiving lifeline pre-calver minerals for 2 months before Calving,all calves were lively and up sucking within minutes,,could selenium deficency still be possible?


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    #3111
    Richk2012
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    Bigbird1 wrote: »
    Super outfit,big pull was there?

    The cow is very wide in the pelvis , and as loose as a bag behind but she still needed a pull . Was fair pressure on the jack but nothin extreme.
    Would never usually use a bull like Canadian Club on a blue cow but tried him on two mature cows this year .
    The other Blue cow in calf to him calved a very ordinary bull calf about a month ago .
    And that particular cow had a heifer that won the weanling show and sale near us last year , and last years calf was from a smaller less muscular bull .
    Genetics is a funny thing :rolleyes:


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    #3112
    Richk2012
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    just do it wrote: »
    Smashing calf. Seems to be close to knuckling over on the front feet? Between that and the slow to suck you might be suspicious of selenium deficiency.

    Was thinking that myself Just Do It , however the cow was getting bagged Gain Pre-Calver Gold 6 weeks before calving .
    I know they recommend 8 weeks prior calving but just didnt suit .
    I put it down to the weight of her. She is savage weight so i thought she was struggling to support herself


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    #3113
    leg wax
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    some of the really good blues can take days to get up just like that one,great suck.


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    #3114
    Richk2012
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    Picture of last years heifer i was talking about in previous post
    She is the bigger of the two weanlings




    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231583.jpg


    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/537351/231584.jpg


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    #3115
    towzer2010
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    Richk2012 wrote: »
    Was thinking that myself Just Do It , however the cow was getting bagged Gain Pre-Calver Gold 6 weeks before calving .
    I know they recommend 8 weeks prior calving but just didnt suit .
    I put it down to the weight of her. She is savage weight so i thought she was struggling to support herself

    Class animals there Rich. I've had a few with that knuckling and I always thought that it was caused by using the calving jack. I didnt even know it could be down to selinum def. They alway came right after a few days


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    #3116
    td5man
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    Any pics from yesterday stanflt?


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    #3117
    stanflt
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    td5man wrote: »
    Any pics from yesterday stanflt?


    no pics-dropped the phone while i wash clipping the other evening-cow walked back on top of it:(

    happy with 1960 and 1780 for second calvers


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    #3118
    ZETOR_IS_BETTER
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    Had to put a picture up for my massive 200th post count ;):)

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    #3119
    Muckit
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    God yer getting great weather there altogether in yer part of the world zetor_is_better! :D I hope that 'calf' is gone at this stage!!


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    #3120
    ZETOR_IS_BETTER
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    Muckit wrote: »
    God yer getting great weather there altogether in yer part of the world zetor_is_better! :D I hope that 'calf' is gone at this stage!!

    :) he certainly is gone now Muckit. Currently enjoying himself on beef maker :D


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    #3121
    Muckit
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    lspg.jpg
    3 day old PB CH bull calf by LSP. Heifer is one we've bred ourselves by TZA out of a SLV (Sylvain) dam.

    He was a bit scoury so gave him half a sachet of bimadine and will repeat for next few days. Looks v light at the mo, hopefully he'I have full out by this time next year ;)


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