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Post by Chris on Jul 27, 2011 20:07:40 GMT
Thanks I'm really pleased with them as I was rather concerned even at ten days old they were still quite dopey and would have to keep reuniting them each day, even last week they were not sticking together and wasn't quite sure if they were full bellied, but they seem all good now. The cat doesnt have a name but perhaps Maddy would suit, as she is a basket case
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Post by 4wd on Aug 13, 2011 16:31:46 GMT
Yearlings I only have 8 up here this year which has been a good thing with the lack of grass earlier - usually there's a bout 12 but maybe a bit smaller than these. The lim heifer is out of a holstein and it shows.
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Post by 4wd on Aug 19, 2011 11:59:41 GMT
Big Boy Simmental He's about a year old now.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2011 12:09:48 GMT
They're doing well up there, 4WD - the boy is a cracker
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Post by stockslave on Aug 19, 2011 13:12:10 GMT
They're doing well up there, 4WD - the boy is a cracker +1 he's verrrrry nice
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Post by 4wd on Aug 19, 2011 17:18:43 GMT
New field, woo hoo
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2011 18:07:17 GMT
They do love a change of scene
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Post by 4wd on Aug 29, 2011 17:17:19 GMT
Two from this morning when it was sunny for an hour. Still hanging about with Mum
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2011 17:58:25 GMT
That's a lot of grass and view 4WD
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Post by cattle-crush on Aug 30, 2011 8:53:26 GMT
Yes, way more grass than us.
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Post by ploughman24 on Aug 30, 2011 9:27:32 GMT
makes me feel like i am there
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Post by genuinerisk on Sept 12, 2011 10:37:51 GMT
Couple from this morning - it is very windy here and it was raining when I took this one!! The one below was twenty minutes earlier, when the calves' mums and Fleur get fed. Gonzales: "Aw, pleeaase let me have some!!" Don't think you could hear Fleur's reply as she wasn't going to life her head out of that bucket til it was empty!!
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Post by stockslave on Sept 12, 2011 12:30:02 GMT
Crikey Jules......you feed yours I wouldn't dare, mine would never get up, they'd be too fat....well they are now but you know what I mean Lovely though
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Post by genuinerisk on Sept 12, 2011 13:14:10 GMT
Yeah, we feed a little bit (Fleur would have one scoop 16% beef blend we mix ourselves once a day) for the first eighteen months - two years then after that, depends on whether they're off showing (which Fleur won't be) or breeding, in which case anything once in calf will be on grass or silage or, as in the case of some of our incalvers, just straw. Show team are on grub, obviously and the calves have their creep feeders.
Some great cattle, 4wd.
Just had a guy from Alta in looking at what we've got - which is zilch as far as he's concerned as we just don't have any dairy style bulls at the moment. He said they'd probably only sold 100 straws over the past two years of Charolais semen - no market for it at all. With the IBR storm at Cogent wiping out a whole barn of stud bulls, there's a real shortage of white or blue and white Blue bulls and so one of his customers is buying Carbon semen for a large West Country dairy herd!!
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Post by Chris on Oct 1, 2011 19:01:12 GMT
Haysel at gone 5 tonight with the dust still a flyin, yes thats right 1st of October. Was mowing all last Sunday up till midnight, with the intention of haylege, but been so busy with spuds this week didn't even get to look at it till friday afternoon, sent my mate away to row it up at dinner time, as its damp till then on marshes now, and damp sets in again about half six, couldn't believe the quality of it, and that it was that good not being touched all week, more bales than first cut on this bit. Never made two cuts of any description before so really pleased with this. Attachments:
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