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    #122
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,078 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    tanko wrote: »
    A calving on Rare Breed now

    Watching liverpool. Watching a cow calving out the window


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    #123
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Watching liverpool. Watching a cow calving out the window

    Throw a bit of straw under the window for the calf:pac:


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    #124
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,272 ✭✭✭High bike


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Watching liverpool. Watching a cow calving out the window
    at least u have ur priorities right lol, go on the pool


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    #125
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    First causultie of the spring, dead heifer calf that was a twin to a bull.
    Left the yard at 8 to get some tea. Back at 9.15 and she had the 2 calves out.
    Not ideal but it's not the end if the world.
    Another one had calved aswell, all good there

    4 today. Getting into the swing of it now

    Feeding oats and soya 2 weeks out from calving. Cows are spitting them out and calves are hopping around in no length


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    #126
    squinn2912
    Registered Users Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    emaherx wrote: »
    No she's quite good to be fair, like you said she's confused by 2 of them. They are all lying together now I'll leave them as is untill tomorrow as it's a cold foggy night.

    Had one like that last year. Luckily the rejected calf was a great greedy calf and he mastered robbing a suck. Other poor creatur took joint I’ll then died about 8 weeks old. She rejected the remaining calf and I injected her to throw the calf. She’s in someone’s freezer now and that’s the spot for her. Ignorant oul thing anyway


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    #127
    squinn2912
    Registered Users Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Watching liverpool. Watching a cow calving out the window

    I nearly friggin calved myself when Bobby smashed that in!


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    #128
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Nice handy heifer this morning to get the ball rolling.


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    #129
    grassroot1
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Nice handy heifer this morning to get the ball rolling.

    Starting earlier is not such a bad plan now you'll notice some difference in weaning weights come the fall


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    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,272 ✭✭✭High bike


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Nice handy heifer this morning to get the ball rolling.
    great when outside calving works out


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    #131
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    grassroot1 wrote: »
    Starting earlier is not such a bad plan now you'll notice some difference in weaning weights come the fall

    We'll know in a few months. No point calving in January if you won't have grass for them until May. I'll either have cows getting too poor/drying up/not going back in calf or a whopper of a meal bill if that's the case. Anyway I shouldn't be complaining, any day they come alive and healthy I'll take them.


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    #132
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    High bike wrote: »
    great when outside calving works out

    Once they get up and suck there's rarely a bother with them.


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    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,272 ✭✭✭High bike


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Once they get up and suck there's rarely a bother with them.
    had one calve inside yesterday and she’s gone out the gap today


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    #134
    squinn2912
    Registered Users Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Yous can all relax a bit more now me and this girl are on speaking terms at last! One to go... then calve them all


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    #135
    Base price
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    emaherx wrote: »
    No she's quite good to be fair, like you said she's confused by 2 of them. They are all lying together now I'll leave them as is untill tomorrow as it's a cold foggy night.
    How is she getting on with the twins now?


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    #136
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,958 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Base price wrote: »
    How is she getting on with the twins now?

    Struggling with the one she took too, we are on the life-aids, it's a very small calf. The other one is fine and a considerably bigger calf, but think I have a pet now :D


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    #137
    RD10
    Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭RD10


    Third calf of the year born last night. Another heifer by Knell, first time heifer- calved herself.


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    #138
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    4 so far, 1 by Lm2014, 1 by CWI and 2 by adx stock bull. All calved away themselves.


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    #139
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭tanko


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    4 so far, 1 by Lm2014, 1 by CWI and 2 by adx stock bull. All calved away themselves.

    What do you think of CWI, have you any cows off him?
    Would he work best on smaller muscly cows?


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    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    4 so far, 1 by Lm2014, 1 by CWI and 2 by adx stock bull. All calved away themselves.

    Many heifers and bulls, have about 9 heifers and 3 bulls so far 😂


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    #141
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Many heifers and bulls, have about 9 heifers and 3 bulls so far ��

    I’ve 6 calved since November.....3 bulls & 3 heifers:D


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    #142
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    tanko wrote: »
    What do you think of CWI, have you any cows off him?
    Would he work best on smaller muscly cows?

    Ive rarely seen a bad cwi cow, they do bring height but have great calving ability


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    #143
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    tanko wrote: »
    What do you think of CWI, have you any cows off him?
    Would he work best on smaller muscly cows?

    Can’t really say....I used him last year and got a pbr bull (not a bad calf) and this year I got a heifer.

    The cow I had put him on is very consistent regardless of what I use on her:D

    Going by his linear scoring I’d say your on the ball, but I’d like to see for myself.


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    dohc turbo2
    Registered Users Posts: 837 ✭✭✭dohc turbo2


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Many heifers and bulls, have about 9 heifers and 3 bulls so far 😂

    Similar , 10 heiffers 4 bulls so far


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    john mayo 10
    Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭john mayo 10


    Kicked off here yesterday. Lm first Calfer had a Lm heifer. Calf up and sucking within an hour. Beauty of the Lm. Installed a calfing gate this year and what a blessing it is. So much safer as cows head is held and shes going nowhere


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    #146
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,921 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    john mayo 10 wrote: »
    Kicked off here yesterday. Lm first Calfer had a Lm heifer. Calf up and sucking within an hour. Beauty of the Lm. Installed a calfing gate this year and what a blessing it is. So much safer as cows head is held and shes going nowhere
    Thinking of making a pen and putting one in
    How far from a wall does it need to be?


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    john mayo 10
    Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭john mayo 10


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Thinking of making a pen and putting one in
    How far from a wall does it need to be?

    Mine is the dividing gate type one. All in one.


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    #148
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,921 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    john mayo 10 wrote: »
    Mine is the dividing gate type one. All in one.
    How wide is your pen?
    Have you much space left when the cow is locked in?


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    john mayo 10
    Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭john mayo 10


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    How wide is your pen?
    Have you much space left when the cow is locked in?
    My pen is 13 ft wide by 20 ft long. Gate is 13 foot but can extend out further. Once the cow is locked in the head lock she is held. Pull around the middle gate and tie a rope from this gate over her back and attach to gate or wall.


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    #150
    grassroot1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭grassroot1


    I would love to know how in the name of jebus people were managing without a calving gate?
    actually scrap that I was that soldier one time..... life is too short


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    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Thinking of making a pen and putting one in
    How far from a wall does it need to be?

    You'd want 14ft at least I'd say.


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