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I know mate, I do have a small 50cc quad but its shed bound at the minute I have a few that are resonable enough and are in great condition,

I would like to get a honda , and it would be the only machine I'd buy I would only have 3000 euro for one, some decent ones for that price

I've had the idea of getting a decent, new enough honda quad, And was wondering what you think, is it worth getting? I have a good idea of what I'm looking for, and have drove the type of machine that's in mind. If you know of some decently priced ones in ireland or want to give your opinion, fire away.

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A few Limousins and Charolais

Some of the cows, and the Blue bull on a sunny day !! Bulls shed and crush

More , I can take a picture of his pedigree cert if wanted , hes off Doonally new- CF 21 and his dam is Clodrum Ursala.

You might remember the pedigree charolais in the last pages, well he has been halter trained for a good while now and has really thrived well in shed , I had two men out looking at him today , one yesterday , we told him hes there for 2000 euro, don't bother coming with anything less, and if he doesn't buy , I'm bringing him to a pedigree show and sale

Limousin calf ( purebred )

Right so, firstly we got gates up along the road so makes an easier job when moving cattle,

well I fed my bull , fed all calves about 20 in batches of five , foddered all the cows , combed the bull , scraped out big slatted shed , put three bales into cows and drew a few from the land, then went to the mart for two hours and got me hair cut

Not working John? hoping to see this farm soon

I have lots of pictures just have to figure out how to upload them!! I'll get them up tomorrow!

Great job Graham you've put great work into it and I like the calving gate

I might get some pictures of my friends herds if anyone Is interested ? There mostly dairy herds but a few suckler And beef aswell?

Then other side corrugated and beam up,

A few from today, I'll probably do a half an hour or so after these are up, got the other wooden frame finished only 3 or 4 more to do Waiting for more pine stripwood from a hardware shop in Dublin, that will be the end of the week so it'll give me time to put detail inside bull shed and yard. (These first few of parlour layout from yesterday 8 by 8 set up )

Looks great Jordan, hardly any chance of another picture of the new shed with the two manitous out in front? Thanks mate,

The start of the milking parlour, If I can fit it in it'll be a 8/8 herringbone or a 6 by 6, pictures, Collecting yard will have a crush and calving pens

I know mate, prices of the top bulls nowadays is unbelieveable, alright it's good for the breeder with the top genetics who has bred him but getting a decent bull at a fair price isn't possible anymore ! I hope you find some of the Blues

Heres the blue bull Fordcrazy! we have to get him off the slats and into a small paddock beside the house, I can get more pictures then one now at him ( he was in our sheds at home in this picture, we moved him because when we calve down we need all the space for cows and calves )

And sorry, any chance of some pictures? at the minute we have 32 cows and 10 in calf heifers and 2 stock bulls , but I hope to buy another Limousin bull as we sold our last one, an ai bred Limousin We bought a pedigree Charolais in March last year and all but one of the pedigree ( Charolais ) herd are in calf to him

Sorry mate, we use our own Blue stock bull. I'll put a snap up of him When selecting the right sire, we mainly look at good feet short guestation , a good back end And easy calving. We usually use a bull that would have a good name , and have an idea what the progency is like off him. at the minute we only ai 20 percent of the herd but this year it should be 40 percent

Time to up date this a bit We have 9 of last years calves left now, most sold off about nine or ten months in our nearest commercial mart. The 9 weanlings we have left will mostly be reared, two of them a bull and a heifer are very bad on their feet and are on sawdust for the past month to see how things fare out. Two of the bulls are pedigrees, one Limousin and one Charolais , the charolais is being halter trained and the Limousin is going to be trained soon for Roscrea ( Limousin mart) . Then the Five other heifers, 3 of the are in our smaller shed , a Limousin x Charolais , a Belgium Blue x Limousin ( < My heifer ) and a Charolais x Limousin. The other two are on some fields at home , on a purebred Charolais and the other a Limousin x Charolais. We are an Autumn calving herd, and will start calving down in March about 95 percent of the herd are in calf. I found some old pictures from the good days in the summer so I'll throw a few up ! :D first a 3/4 bred Belgium Blue Heifer She made 1000 euro Can't remember what kind of weight she was though :/