All the calves look good I think, it's a shame you won't be getting a purebred Galloway from Beltie beag. I'm still looking forward to the rest of the calves to come. I find the whole process very interesting, great work Seán.
Thank you Padraig. We will be able to see what a shorthorn x galloway and a Galloway x shorthorn look like beside each other. And we should have different looking calves out of the belties this year too with the roan bulls
Sean, I just heard yesterday that Greg Judy will be in northern Ireland this summer for a conference. I'm at his farm now, at his grazing school, listening to Ian Mitchell Inis. That grass is coming on now, have a great day.
Hi George super stuff thank you for the heads up. I'll check it out. Would love to meet him. Hope all is well over there. Great time of year. Have a good one 🙌
That's a shame about no more Ruby calves, but the ones you have are go hiontach! Keep up the great work. And yes, that little heifer looks like a great calf! Well done!
Thank you Willie. Yes but our beltie cows might have a bit of roan this time after the bulls 🤔 a blue grey with a belt is a possibility too. Will be interesting to see the difference between a Galloway x shorthorn and a shorthorn x galloway 🤔
Welcome back my friend and as always beautiful sharing adventure documentary countryside content video and a very interesting video to watch .. million thanks again from Montreal QC Canada
Davy's heifer is the winning Shorthorn in your experiment. Davy might have another of the same abilities. Great luck anyhow to have 2 ruby heifers and maybe the red bull for a go next year especially on the existing belties and davy's. You will have some clearing out to do this year but sure that's what it's all about.
You have some nice calves so far. In time if Ruby's son is considerably younger there should be a high chance of Belties next season. Fingers crossed. 🙂
So disappointed that you will have no more ruby babies. But don't throw in the towel yet. The blue looks like she might be carrying twins and if so that may be why she is struggling bit. She looks very big. All looking great in the sunshine. You will have to name the heifer calf off your purebred cow so we can track her . The calves are very lively. Thanks for the update
Hi Marie yes it's a little disappointing however we will get to see a shorthorn x galloway along side a Galloway x shorthorn. We could also get some nice colours with the bulls being roan this time so all is not lost. The wee bull calfs are every bit pure bred in the markings too which is nice. We shall know very soon 🤞
As you know I know nothing about breeds Sean, but those little calves look simple gorgeous 😊 just love, love them. Best of luck with remaining calving ❤
Very good. And I find there lots of movement too which I think is a sign. They get uncomfortable more than singles with the comrades pushing on them. We'll know soon 🤞
Separate your Galloway bullock Sean and give him a bit of meal every day and you won't be long fattening him. They are very easily fattened. Carves are looking great
Well John thank you yes think I will. Ihave the herd test in a couple of weeks, going to bring him home to the richer ground with a few others. Should make a good job of him 🙌
Sean, I prefer the shorthorns anyway, not that I know anything about keeping cattle, so you wouldn’t want to be paying too much heed to me(!) For your sake, I was hoping you might get some more belties but it seems Ruby was a quality not quantity lad who didn’t believe in working overtime! Perhaps he might spring you a last surprise… 🇮🇪🇸🇬
Well Peter I'm not giving up just yet 🤞. Whatever we have I think they'll be interesting looking for sure. For the first time we have a Galloway shorthorn calf and a shorthorn Galloway to judge
Imagine having 3 sets of twins from one cow over 5 years I think? Crazy going 🙄 I do think similar of the AI tbh he will never be as good as in the book on a normal day
Did you ever hear about the quads in clare? A cow had 4 hiefer calves and they then grow up and 2 of them had a set of twins as springers. And now that you mention it I think any bull given the minding could look great in the Ai brochures. Throw him into a field and out winter him and take a picture in April and we'd see a different animal
@@seanofalluinregenerativefa4569 don't think I heard it tbh. I reckon they'll advise to go for a bull instead of AI in years to come for some reason or other, just a complete turn around like everything else at some point 🙄 The bull is real, at this stage the AI are mostly modified, whatever problems will arise there are yet to be seen
Just fluke. Dung samples showed a good news bad news story. I am ahead of the worms but I do have a fluke burden. However our vet makes his own concoction he calls magic. I used it on her👌
Sounds good. It's a good time of the year to dose with a Fluke and worm dose as the Fluke in the cows should all be in the adult stage. What did your vet use? Was it bluestone?
@@user-qj2ge5hz4d no I'm pretty sure it's pharmacy derived. I'd sooner the blue stone but I'm nervous about the amount to use. I've heard it's easy over dose
All the bluestone that you can lift on an old Irish Pound coin. Mix in boiling hot water for a few minutes then add water to cool it down. Dose the cow as soon as possible after mixing preferably within 20 mins. The bluestone doesn't kill the fluke but it hardens the lining of the stomach so the fluke pass out rather than migrating to her liver, so they tell me anyhow. I don't have any bluestone but I can lend you an old Irish Pound coin. 😉😉
All the calves look good I think, it's a shame you won't be getting a purebred Galloway from Beltie beag. I'm still looking forward to the rest of the calves to come. I find the whole process very interesting, great work Seán.
Thank you Padraig. We will be able to see what a shorthorn x galloway and a Galloway x shorthorn look like beside each other. And we should have different looking calves out of the belties this year too with the roan bulls
Sean, I just heard yesterday that Greg Judy will be in northern Ireland this summer for a conference. I'm at his farm now, at his grazing school, listening to Ian Mitchell Inis. That grass is coming on now, have a great day.
Hi George super stuff thank you for the heads up. I'll check it out. Would love to meet him. Hope all is well over there. Great time of year. Have a good one 🙌
That's a shame about no more Ruby calves, but the ones you have are go hiontach! Keep up the great work. And yes, that little heifer looks like a great calf! Well done!
Thank you Willie. Yes but our beltie cows might have a bit of roan this time after the bulls 🤔 a blue grey with a belt is a possibility too. Will be interesting to see the difference between a Galloway x shorthorn and a shorthorn x galloway 🤔
@@seanofalluinregenerativefa4569 There's a silver lining to every cloud!
Sean, once again a lovely video, with no rain!!!
Thank you Irish dancer. And we have a red sky tonight 🤞
Welcome back my friend and as always beautiful sharing adventure documentary countryside content video and a very interesting video to watch .. million thanks again from Montreal QC Canada
Big thank you from Ireland my friend
Davy's heifer is the winning Shorthorn in your experiment. Davy might have another of the same abilities. Great luck anyhow to have 2 ruby heifers and maybe the red bull for a go next year especially on the existing belties and davy's. You will have some clearing out to do this year but sure that's what it's all about.
Well pj yes I'm going to sell hard this year after the test. The few pound is needed too tbh. I've not sold much this few years.
You have some nice calves so far. In time if Ruby's son is considerably younger there should be a high chance of Belties next season. Fingers crossed. 🙂
Now you have it Joel. The roan bulls will definitely throw nice colours. We've a lot to look forward to yet 🤞
If he's a longer gestation bull you might still get more.
Average is 288, we have had cows go 2 weeks after that
So disappointed that you will have no more ruby babies. But don't throw in the towel yet. The blue looks like she might be carrying twins and if so that may be why she is struggling bit. She looks very big. All looking great in the sunshine. You will have to name the heifer calf off your purebred cow so we can track her . The calves are very lively. Thanks for the update
Hi Marie yes it's a little disappointing however we will get to see a shorthorn x galloway along side a Galloway x shorthorn. We could also get some nice colours with the bulls being roan this time so all is not lost.
The wee bull calfs are every bit pure bred in the markings too which is nice. We shall know very soon 🤞
Funny old year last year lot of repeating cows for some reason or other?
@@johnowen7156. It could be the cows too but none repeated after the shorthorns is my only argument 🤔
As you know I know nothing about breeds Sean, but those little calves look simple gorgeous 😊 just love, love them. Best of luck with remaining calving ❤
Thank you Noelle 😀 hardy wee things. Look forward to seeing them grow. We'll see you soon over the summer 🙌
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Nice calves that you have.
Well you got some nice calfs out of the belt experiment.
Thank you John. Still a few colourful calves yet to come 🤞
Lovely video 👍
Enjoying watching the calving season. It would be great if you could renind us of the breeding of cow as she calves.
Thank you John yes I'll do that good man 👌🙌
Twins I'd be thinking as she's big on both sides.
Very good. And I find there lots of movement too which I think is a sign. They get uncomfortable more than singles with the comrades pushing on them. We'll know soon 🤞
Lovely calfs
Separate your Galloway bullock Sean and give him a bit of meal every day and you won't be long fattening him. They are very easily fattened. Carves are looking great
Well John thank you yes think I will. Ihave the herd test in a couple of weeks, going to bring him home to the richer ground with a few others. Should make a good job of him 🙌
Funny you mention the word 'richer'. There's a field near us called sabhair or rich as Gaeilge..
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Omg 😳thank you so much for your support much appreciated my friend.. 🙌🙌
Sean, I prefer the shorthorns anyway, not that I know anything about keeping cattle, so you wouldn’t want to be paying too much heed to me(!) For your sake, I was hoping you might get some more belties but it seems Ruby was a quality not quantity lad who didn’t believe in working overtime! Perhaps he might spring you a last surprise…
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Well Peter I'm not giving up just yet 🤞. Whatever we have I think they'll be interesting looking for sure. For the first time we have a Galloway shorthorn calf and a shorthorn Galloway to judge
Do you know if Ruby’s owner got his fertility tested to see if it was down to the heat wave or something else?
Lead cows heifer looks incalve to me.
is that madra,blue cow?she was very big last yr on her first calf. lovely calves Sean!
Well Kevin no madra is the sister out of our bull. The blue lady is Ai bred. Pampered to the last I suppose
Imagine having 3 sets of twins from one cow over 5 years I think? Crazy going 🙄 I do think similar of the AI tbh he will never be as good as in the book on a normal day
Did you ever hear about the quads in clare?
A cow had 4 hiefer calves and they then grow up and 2 of them had a set of twins as springers.
And now that you mention it I think any bull given the minding could look great in the Ai brochures. Throw him into a field and out winter him and take a picture in April and we'd see a different animal
@@seanofalluinregenerativefa4569 don't think I heard it tbh. I reckon they'll advise to go for a bull instead of AI in years to come for some reason or other, just a complete turn around like everything else at some point 🙄 The bull is real, at this stage the AI are mostly modified, whatever problems will arise there are yet to be seen
I don’t think that white cow will go 6 weeks without calving mate
Yes I think I made a mistake there. Her time is up next week
Did you dose her for fluke or fluke and worm?
Just fluke. Dung samples showed a good news bad news story. I am ahead of the worms but I do have a fluke burden.
However our vet makes his own concoction he calls magic.
I used it on her👌
Sounds good.
It's a good time of the year to dose with a Fluke and worm dose as the Fluke in the cows should all be in the adult stage. What did your vet use? Was it bluestone?
@@user-qj2ge5hz4d no I'm pretty sure it's pharmacy derived. I'd sooner the blue stone but I'm nervous about the amount to use. I've heard it's easy over dose
All the bluestone that you can lift on an old Irish Pound coin. Mix in boiling hot water for a few minutes then add water to cool it down.
Dose the cow as soon as possible after mixing preferably within 20 mins. The bluestone doesn't kill the fluke but it hardens the lining of the stomach so the fluke pass out rather than migrating to her liver, so they tell me anyhow. I don't have any bluestone but I can lend you an old Irish Pound coin. 😉😉
@@user-qj2ge5hz4d I love it thank you my friend. I've screenshot that msg to refare back 👌