Sucklers not showing signs of heat

jay gatsby

Anyone else finding this a problem this year lads? Have a batch of 10 cows here and not a sign of action so far. Nothing changed in routine or circumstances from previous years but nothing doing.

Have a yearling bullock in for the past week to see if he can sniff anything out but nought so far. Have them in front of the house so pretty sure it's not a case of us not seeing it.

Any suggestions other than more grass?

annubis

ya was thinking myself its very quiet on that front, putting it down to ****e weather

Count Mondego

Same here, frightened the shyte outta me as I bought a new bull and though he mightn't be too interested in the day job. A few good weeks will sort it out.

Muckit

Can't beat a bit of heat on their backs to get things moving.... sure we'd be the same ourselves, 'sticky mickey' weather l like to call it And we've got feck all of that so far this year!!!

I was standing outside a church yesterday at a communion with just a shirt on (jeans also) and by God the breeze would cut ya in two!!

blue5000

Ya it's the weather, brother got a mare scanned and follicle was empty, it's too cold. Had you them housed due to bad weather?

jay gatsby

blue5000 wrote: »

Ya it's the weather, brother got a mare scanned and follicle was empty, it's too cold. Had you them housed due to bad weather?

No they have been out since early on full time. Actually the only thing served is a heifer that was housed much later in a different group. Hope you're right on the weather, hoping to keep them quite tight and early but time is slipping on

Genghis Cant

Count Mondego wrote: »

I bought a new bull and though he mightn't be too interested in the day job..

If he's not happy he can head off now and marry the bull next door:cool:

Buford T. Justice XIX

jay gatsby wrote: »

Anyone else finding this a problem this year lads? Have a batch of 10 cows here and not a sign of action so far. Nothing changed in routine or circumstances from previous years but nothing doing.

Have a yearling bullock in for the past week to see if he can sniff anything out but nought so far. Have them in front of the house so pretty sure it's not a case of us not seeing it.

Any suggestions other than more grass?

Have you tried restricting suckling for the calves? Like, let them into cows twice a day. I'm running a few with the dairy herd and just let them into the cows while the milking machine is washing and let them off once the cow shows a heat.

Easier said than done if you are working off farm though.

Count Mondego

Genghis Cant wrote: »

If he's not happy he can head off now and marry the bull next door:cool:

Jesus be quite! We'll have "MrWalsh" back on to beat us with his equality stick.

Genghis Cant

Count Mondego wrote: »

Jesus be quite! We'll have "MrWalsh" back on to beat us with his equality stick.

Her :pac:

Aye..... The next cow that gets sick to calve here we'll have plenty of advice!

Mad4simmental

The last cow bulled today, most of them are bulled weeks ago. I only saw one actually been bulled the other day for the first time. The new bull walked over done his job and walked away.

I was surprised as it's his first year and I was expecting him to burn himself out running after them for days but he knows better.

I know the others were bulled as Iv seen their tails curled up like a corkscrew after getting a belt off big red.

So I guess what I'm saying is people running bulls might have allot more bulled than they think.