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

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  • #92
    severeoversteer
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭severeoversteer


    just do it wrote: »
    Looking good. What's the grazing plan with it?

    land would be fairly poor so don't expect a massive crop but there is 25 acres of it so will have to round up a good few beasts for it

    not relying on it for feed either as have feed left over from last year as well as this years crop so have 3 times more fodder than I need but I might try and up the numbers of stock on the farm


  • #93
    ABlur
    Registered Users Posts: 815 ✭✭✭ABlur


    Pervy radish from my garden!


  • #94
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Meat and two veg!! :D


  • #95
    onyerbikepat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    ABlur wrote: »
    Pervy radish from my garden!
    I dunno who's more messed up, you or the radish!


  • #96
    Count Mondego
    Registered Users Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Count Mondego


    Muckit wrote: »
    Meat and two veg!! :D

    I saw something else which means I'm probably more perverted! Freud would have a field day, pardon the pun.


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  • #97
    severeoversteer
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭severeoversteer


    ABlur wrote: »
    Pervy radish from my garden!

    Belgian blue radish !!:D:D


  • #98
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Strip wires. Heavy covers


  • #99
    Justjens
    Registered Users Posts: 584 ✭✭✭Justjens


    This fella decided to enter this world with his best assets first, at 3am, needless to say I had to wake my vet for assistance.

    2 1/2 year old SH/CH cross heifer, thank God she was quiet......

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    AA sire, thankfully he has waited to fully develop once he hit terra firma:)

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  • #100
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Did the vet give him any shot to straighten his knees out Justjens? Would be no harm to help him along.


  • #101
    stretch film
    Registered Users Posts: 1,057 ✭✭✭stretch film


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Strip wires. Heavy covers

    Whats your next cover .1800 here . Gonna finish a walk now and see how we stand . Should be max cover now :(


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  • #102
    larrymiller
    Registered Users Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭larrymiller


    Fire lighting for the winter ;)


  • #103
    ganmo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    larrymiller wrote: »
    Fire lighting for the winter ;)

    Love the heat from fires like that


  • #104
    Justjens
    Registered Users Posts: 584 ✭✭✭Justjens


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Did the vet give him any shot to straighten his knees out Justjens? Would be no harm to help him along.

    Couldn't see how bow-legged he was when he landed, only saw that when I turned him out.

    I've had a lot worse when I used CH bulls, to the point they were not able to straighten their legs enough to get their feet under them, and I never injected them, so reckon this guy will soon come right. Let nature take it's course, a few days will tell a lot and it doesn't impede him much.


  • #105
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Good stuff!

    I wonder if she's a sister of our heifer! Only for the butt of a horn I'd be asking if you'd stolen her:D
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  • #106
    larrymiller
    Registered Users Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭larrymiller


    ganmo wrote: »
    Love the heat from fires like that

    Lovely smell too


  • #107
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    A few weanlings.


  • #108
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,363 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    larrymiller wrote: »
    Lovely smell too

    Now your talking


  • #109
    just do it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    A few weanlings.

    Looks like your eye for replacements is paying dividends. Any of those out of heifers you've put pictures up over the last few years


  • #110
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    just do it wrote: »
    Looks like your eye for replacements is paying dividends. Any of those out of heifers you've put pictures up over the last few years

    The 2 reds are out of 2 lim x sim springers alright. Nice to see an improvement in them but it's a slow process. Another 3 or 4 years should get me to where I want though.


  • #111
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    stretch film wrote: »
    Whats your next cover .1800 here . Gonna finish a walk now and see how we stand . Should be max cover now :(

    2500


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  • #112
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,971 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    C'mon what's keeping you?

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    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • #113
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Strip wires. Heavy covers

    Where's the strip wire?? Or heavy covers for that matter. Would heavy not be up to their hocks? I can see their claws! :)


  • #114
    sandydan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭sandydan


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Did the vet give him any shot to straighten his knees out Justjens? Would be no harm to help him along.

    what injection helps to straighten knees had one here last year worse than that tried everything vet put him down after three weeks said getting too heavy to straighten legs ,tried stretching and supports but ..


  • #115
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    sandydan wrote: »
    what injection helps to straighten knees had one here last year worse than that tried everything vet put him down after three weeks said getting too heavy to straighten legs ,tried stretching and supports but ..

    Contracted tendons?
    Can't say for certain if it was the injections or time that fixed ours but any calves like that we always give them a Vit E/Selenium shot. No harm to them at all in either case but it's what we used one year when we had half our calves appear with 'knuckled' fetlocks in front. Put it down to the lick buckets not being used and switched to a vit/mineral powder over the silage OAD.
    Haven't seen any with it since anyway!


  • #116
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Cottage Devon bull calf that had mange
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  • #117
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Tb test today so gathered up the cattle

    Suck calf I bought to suck cow ... She big animal now .. Calving at Xmas to my own lim

    I sold other heifers and at least 6 lads have called to house to see if Hereford was for sale, boys love a red white head ! Her calves again should be nice milky heifers and in the meantime she will have yellow whiteheads favoured over ****ty slate grey from a black whitehead

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  • #118
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Tb test today so gathered up the cattle

    Suck calf I bought to suck cow ... She big animal now .. Calving at Xmas to my own lim

    I sold other heifers and at least 6 lads have called to house to see if Hereford was for sale, boys love a red white head ! Her calves again should be nice milky heifers and in the meantime she will have yellow whiteheads favoured over ****ty slate grey from a black whitehead

    photo_zpsdc7965f2.jpg

    Have a soft spot for a red whitehead myself bod but it's hard to pick up a good one now! Old fellow used to have a load of them when I was a young fellow and he had a sim bull with them. Their progeny made mighty cows for a Charolais bull.


  • #119
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


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    Better than milking cows


  • #120
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Lads we need someone to rescue Greengrass, he's drinking Closamectin:eek:


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  • #121
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    DEP heifer incalf to KOY

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    MBU heifer incalf to LSX

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