bad luck

blockie

:mad:hi all went up to shed this morning to check a sick cow only to find her conked ;fourth one this year through various different things vet said she got heart attack last night ;twelve years old beginning to think my luck has left me am afraid to go up to shed every morning now anyways just had to get this off my chest

MOOVAN

It a hard thing to take,but look at it another way,as long as the bad luck stays outside the door of your house,that is the main thing.
Chin up mate, things will be better in 2013.

epfff

MOOVAN wrote: »

It a hard thing to take,but look at it another way,as long as the bad luck stays outside the door of your house,that is the main thing.
Chin up mate, things will be better in 2013.

+1
It could be all for luck
farmers get killed everyday with livestock and she be the 1 that was going to turn and mark your card
get off to knackery
take the good with the bad
smile and think of all those with no cow to lose
thats my attidude

blockie

:)thanks for the kind words of support

Toplink

Lost a cow at the weekend also. At least she left a fine heifer calf behind her.

I suppose once these things stay outside the door of the house life isnt too bad.

Buncha Fives

Often you go through a period of bad luck... I remember at home years ago we went through an awful bad year of loosing calves. We did things no differently to any other year but everything that could go wrong did go wrong; hard calvings, calves were born dead for no reason, cow sat on the calf, cow tried to calf against the wall etc. it was just a disaster.

So we doubled our efforts we AI'd heifers to easier calving bulls, changed the minerals etc. and the next couple of years we never lost a calf. However just when we thought we had it sorted we lost a lot of older animals in unfortunate circumstances: the best pedigree heifer we had slipped while being mounted and broke her back, another heifer got caught in a cubile and choked. We always insured bulls when we bought them and we bought a new bull and the day we bought him we let him out to serve a cow (before the vet came to certify him!!) the bull mounted the cow, toppled and hurt his leg the vet couldn't insure him and the bull never got better and we went down a lot of money. Several ridiculous things like this happened.

All you can do in life and farming is control the controlables and after that you have to hope for good luck.

DMAXMAN

blockie wrote: »

:mad:hi all went up to shed this morning to check a sick cow only to find her conked ;fourth one this year through various different things vet said she got heart attack last night ;twelve years old beginning to think my luck has left me am afraid to go up to shed every morning now anyways just had to get this off my chest

sorry for your troubles. everyone tells you that s**t happens , but hard to stomach even so.what ever happens , dont be afraid to talk to some one even if its only to us here. a trouble shared is a trouble halved. also like others said trouble outside door is not too bad.

1chippy

i hate to say it but you have a bit of catching up on me this year and i have a good bit of catchin up on another lad i met in the dead animal labs one day. he was averaging 2 dead cattle a week.
I think everyone gets a run every so often. At this stage i dont even let it phase me. I'm replacing animals to the best of my ability and focusing on causes, cures and vaccination programs. You will look back in a few years and say that was one sh1te year, but sure hey i got through it.

bob charles

Some days with stock tis not bad luck I have at all, but no luck. Just use every death to gain experience in avoiding such deaths in time to come.

royalmeath

MOOVAN wrote: »

It a hard thing to take,but look at it another way,as long as the bad luck stays outside the door of your house,that is the main thing.
Chin up mate, things will be better in 2013.

Cow was 12 years old you hardly lost too much on her.
If you have livestock you will have deadstock.

blockie

:)thanks lads/lassies for the kind replys as you said a problem shared is halved thanks again

delaval

Feeding cows this am first grab burst water pipe dealer had us going 1 hour later, 2nd grab burst hydraulic hose got it fixed cows not fed till 2 pm any other time I would lose the plot...........not now 3yo daughter came home yesterday after 3 weeks in hospital..............now I know what 'once its outside the door' means