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Livestock/General Farming photo thread TAKE #2 ::::RULES IN 1st POST::::

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    #5432
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,370 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Say my name wrote: »
    Well that wasn't the greatest of successes.
    The mix with a few litres of molasses is fine and growing. But the seaweed only application is gone a bit yellow especially any younger grass.

    A bit stronger and I'd have the answer to the round-up ban.

    Too much salt?


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    #5433
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Too much salt?

    Too much something anyway.
    I had it well rinsed with the volume washer before it went into the tank.

    Aw sure it could have been anything. Too much chlorine, iodine, etc, etc or bacteria,etc, etc.

    The grass should grow through the phase.
    Dry weather wouldn't have helped either.


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    #5434
    CloughCasey1
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    Smashing morning. No harsh breeze and a right good dew on the grass. Badly wanted.☺


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    #5435
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Say my name wrote: »
    Too much something anyway.
    I had it well rinsed with the volume washer before it went into the tank.

    Aw sure it could have been anything. Too much chlorine, iodine, etc, etc or bacteria,etc, etc.

    The grass should grow through the phase.
    Dry weather wouldn't have helped either.

    When you say you had it rinsed - you mean the IBC or the sprayer?

    Will you go again with it Say?

    Very interested to see how it works out over time...


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    #5436
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    When you say you had it rinsed - you mean the IBC or the sprayer?

    Will you go again with it Say?

    Very interested to see how it works out over time...

    I rinsed out both. The stuff mixed with molasses in the sprayer, the grass never got checked. But the only seaweed solution did but with those bits of rain again these last few days it's come through again and greened up and growing.
    I'm beginning to think I should be nearly letting it into the milking parlour slatted tank and mix and spread with the splash plate and drive on. Use my 1300 g slurry tank as a sprayer.

    It'd be lovely if I had a book or guide where someone else has made all these mistakes. :p


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    #5437
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    It might be hard to make out the colour differences in the pictures but it's the same field divided by a roadway reseeded over 30 years ago.
    Where the cows are got the seaweed spray with molasses.
    And the second one is seaweed spray only.
    Both were roughly at the same growth stage with the cows one probably a few days ahead at spraying.
    The only difference fert wise between the two is the cow one had added boron in the mix but the second picture the fert had more p and k.

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    #5438
    High bike
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    CloughCasey1 wrote: »
    Smashing morning. No harsh breeze and a right good dew on the grass. Badly wanted.☺
    theres more than dew needed around here the ground is like the road


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    #5439
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    High bike wrote: »
    theres more than dew needed around here the ground is like the road

    That is a fact. Ground cracking up already.


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    #5440
    Limestone Cowboy
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    A few of the calves today. Starting to shape up a bit now.


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    #5441
    Panch18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    A few of the calves today. Starting to shape up a bit now.

    Smashing calves there Limestone - a credit to ya


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    #5442
    Muckit
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    Shocking screws of yokes!! Show us the good calves let ya!! :D


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    #5443
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Muckit wrote: »
    Shocking screws of yokes!! Show us the good calves let ya!! :D

    :D Theres a few screws around the place dont worry. The fella that's not tagged will be the pick of them yet. Just a fortnight now. A few more aswell, bundle of yearling heifers and a 2yo blonde heifer that's gone to the bull.


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    #5444
    patsy_mccabe
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    :D Theres a few screws around the place dont worry. The fella that's not tagged will be the pick of them yet. Just a fortnight now. A few more aswell, bundle of yearling heifers and a 2yo blonde heifer that's gone to the bull.

    Serious cow and calf in the first pic.
    What's that planted in the background of the top last pic? Not that fooking Sitka spruce?:mad:

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #5445
    Lady Haywire
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    Few spare calves :pac:

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    #5446
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Serious cow and calf in the first pic.
    What's that planted in the background of the top last pic? Not that fooking Sitka spruce?:mad:

    Great breeding cow. Have a real nice heifer off her from last year. Loads of lads have tried to buy her off me. Ya Sitka spruce, poor land up there. My place was a sea of moss and rushes there up to a few years ago but a good spray of mcpa and plenty of fert and gran lime and it's useable again.


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    #5447
    rushvalley
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Great breeding cow. Have a real nice heifer off her from last year. Loads of lads have tried to buy her off me. Ya Sitka spruce, poor land up there. My place was a sea of moss and rushes there up to a few years ago but a good spray of mcpa and plenty of fert and gran lime and it's useable again.

    Have you any calves off the charolais bull you bought last year?


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    #5448
    Hard Knocks
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    :D Theres a few screws around the place dont worry. The fella that's not tagged will be the pick of them yet. Just a fortnight now. A few more aswell, bundle of yearling heifers and a 2yo blonde heifer that's gone to the bull.
    Lovely stock, that heifer is a beaut.
    What bull did you put on her?


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    #5449
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    rushvalley wrote: »
    Have you any calves off the charolais bull you bought last year?

    Ya the most of those calves in the pics are off him.


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    #5450
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Lovely stock, that heifer is a beaut.
    What bull did you put on her?

    Limo stock bull.


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    #5451
    johnnyw20
    Registered Users Posts: 198 ✭✭johnnyw20


    13 and half month old simmental cross bull I bought for €150 as a calf in for finishing at the moment 510kg last week. Should leave me a few quid hopefully. How would he roughly grade? An O+?


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    #5452
    tanko
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Great breeding cow. Have a real nice heifer off her from last year. Loads of lads have tried to buy her off me. Ya Sitka spruce, poor land up there. My place was a sea of moss and rushes there up to a few years ago but a good spray of mcpa and plenty of fert and gran lime and it's useable again.

    What type of fert did you use there?


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    #5453
    Say my name
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    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    When you say you had it rinsed - you mean the IBC or the sprayer?

    Will you go again with it Say?

    Very interested to see how it works out over time...

    Can I change my mind??

    I'd say the seaweed treatments (both) have been fairly positive.
    The place has greened up grand with good growth. Even my yellow bits have darkened and thickened up. No drought stress here. Ground is cracking open though.
    Lesson learned is that you need a dry day to spray but a wet day the next day to wash it off the leaves into the soil.


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    #5454
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    tanko wrote: »
    What type of fert did you use there?

    Got 4 bags of 18-6-12/acre last year and 2 so far this year. All my indexs are low so nearly always go with 18-6-12 or 10-10-20.


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    #5455
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭tanko


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Got 4 bags of 18-6-12/acre last year and 2 so far this year. All my indexs are low so nearly always go with 18-6-12 or 10-10-20.

    Yeah, was thinking the same myself.
    I take it you're happy wirh the results when using granlime on ground like that.


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    #5456
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    When calving young works out! This is the Salers heifer who broke into next doors ch bull & calved at 22 months. Doing great thankfully :)

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    #5457
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,627 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    When calving young works out! This is the Salers heifer who broke into next doors ch bull & calved at 22 months. Doing great thankfully :)

    []

    As the auctioneer in Mountrath mart used to say 'Nice outfit'!

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    #5458
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    tanko wrote: »
    Yeah, was thinking the same myself.
    I take it you're happy wirh the results when using granlime on ground like that.

    I've no choice really. Wouldn't travel it with a lime spreader. Place isint as coarse as it was anyway.


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    #5459
    Albert Johnson
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 1,874 Mod ✭✭✭✭Albert Johnson


    [][/QUOTE]
    As the auctioneer in Mountrath mart used to say 'Nice outfit'![/quote]

    Another auctioneer locally is renowned for "super suckler" and letting an odd roar into the mike for added emphasis.


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    #5460
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    "Smasher!


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    #5461
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    "You're a judge!"


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