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kowtow

Dawggone wrote:

It still costs me €1550/hd to get them to the parlor when you include wages....

Mother of God if I came back as a cow I'd like to be reared by him.

Called up by name, silage made of CLOVER and to cap it all there's a f**king paycheque at the end of the week.

It's heifer heaven.

farmersfriend

atlantic mist wrote: »

whats every one being chargered for tb testing got our bill today 4.40 with no bloods this year, seemed on the high side

cow after eating a weed or something after milk plunging from 32 litre to 12, eyes sunken in head, anyone have any home made tonics for clearing cows system, shes like this with two weeks no pick up vets cant figure out whats up with her wreaken she ate something, she wouldnt eat any meal but is still rambling away with rest of herd

merchants do like hearing us ring, id be first to admit we probable over feed at certain periods of lactation although milk urea is normally between 20-26 , we try to keep system as simple as possible, grass/baled silage and nuts in parlor, we have considered feeding straights on top to boost at shoulders but always felt the additional labour out weighted the benefit of chasing liters by feeding additional straights

She hardly got ragwort, had a similar case,

Buford T. Justice XIX

Dawggone wrote: »

Grass only when they're trained to come when called.
Drought = good hay + 0.75kg soya.
Housed = clover silage 20% and good hay 80%. (By weight not dm).

Maize silage 15 days before calving.

Soya must be the most palatable feed I know. Way better than crunch.

One worm dose before housing. Never liver fluke.

It still costs me €1550/hd to get them to the parlor when you include wages....

FFS, Dawg, you pay yourself?:eek::eek::eek::eek:

Crazy, crazy talk, it'll never catch on:pac:

Timmaay

whelan2 wrote: »

What about a friesian bull. Could use him on cows also. I bought a high ebi fr bull in 2014. Ran him with heifers and he cleaned up cows last summer. As a result I only have 1 left to calve now. Pity he had to go to factory.

I'm going the oppose direction, don't want a huge amount of replacements here! My dad really isn't a fan of Fr bulls and thinks they are far too wicket etc, alongside that he's breed an AI herd for the last 20year or more, so I've scrapped that idea to avoid another argument ha.

Dawggone

freedominacup wrote: »

Will a magnet move a wire that's embedded or causing a peritonitis?

Used to lose 3 or 4 to foreign objects here every year but now once calves are 6mts old they get a magnet. The number of cases dropped but still get the odd one. I use a compass to check them and redose if they have lost it.

I wonder if Mists vet checked her with a metal detector...

Milked out

freedominacup wrote: »

Milked out wrote: »

Had a cow with a displacement here last week first in a while. Agree with dawg if in doubt magnet could help if she ingested something.

Will a magnet move a wire that's embedded or causing a peritonitis?

Not sure, only going off our own vet who on autopsy has come across wire in the heart and various issues caused by wire staples etc. He tends to cover for all eventualities when he doesn't have a definite diagnosis. Twice we have given magnets when not sure and cow seemed to come right, maybe a coincidence maybe not but he is of the opinion if there is sharp metal in there at least the magnet will lesson chances of damage

Dawggone

kowtow wrote: »

Mother of God if I came back as a cow I'd like to be reared by him.

Called up by name, silage made of CLOVER and to cap it all there's a f**king paycheque at the end of the week.

It's heifer heaven.

Lmao!

Dawggone

Out of interest what word(s) do ye use to call animals?

The French use Ta Ta Ta...

kowtow

Dawggone wrote:

Out of interest what word(s) do ye use to call animals?

Call em by name.

Or 'hup up up' which has the slight disadvantage of making the dog/s drop at the same time.

Dawggone

kowtow wrote: »

Call em by name.

Or 'hup up up' which has the slight disadvantage of making the dog/s drop at the same time.

Yea, I use hup! for gundogs.

Timmaay

Timmaay wrote: »

HE bull for heifers? Yay or Nay? Anyway of checking up on a stock bulls calving easy? Other than the seller "guaranteeing" ya easy calving ha??

Should do the job nicely. My only regret is I didn't bring the 2nd one yourman had for sale also!

stretch film

Timmaay wrote: »

Should do the job nicely. My only regret is I didn't bring the 2nd one yourman had for sale also!

Will you ai for a round or leave him at it straight away.

pedigree 6

Dawggone wrote: »

Out of interest what word(s) do ye use to call animals?

The French use Ta Ta Ta...

Chew on Chew on.

I don't know who started saying it but the neighbours use it as well.

Dawggone

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Chew on Chew on.

I don't know who started saying it but the neighbours use it as well.

Local custom/heritage?

Buford T. Justice XIX

Dawggone wrote: »

Out of interest what word(s) do ye use to call animals?

The French use Ta Ta Ta...

For calves, suuck, suuck, suuck etc.

For cows, how, how, how, how but that's just us round here. My grandmother came from further west, muuuuch further west and that's one of the words that followed her over.

For driving cows, sally, sally, sally, the name of a dog dead 5 years now but she's still driving the cows for me:(

Dawggone

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

For calves, suuck, suuck, suuck etc.

For cows, how, how, how, how but that's just us round here. My grandmother came from further west, muuuuch further west and that's one of the words that followed her over.

For driving cows, sally, sally, sally, the name of a dog dead 5 years now but she's still driving the cows for me:(

Lol.
As a child I remember calling calves...suuuck..suuck..suk..suk!

Jeez thanks for the memory!

Timmaay

stretch film wrote: »

Will you ai for a round or leave him at it straight away.

AI on the heifers for say 10days or until I get about 80% of them done. Or until I get bored, or think I'm making a hash of spotting which heifers are definitely bulling ha. Probably leave him in for 6wks with the heifers. Still have an AA bull here but he's for the factory after this season. I'll aim for around 60 fr services, and hopefully get around 15 heifers out of that next spring, so once I hit the 60 I'll look at putting the AA in with the cows, and once the HE gets pulled from the heifers the AA can go to the factory and HE replace him in with the cows.

pedigree 6

Dawggone wrote: »

Local custom/heritage?

Must be.
These things don't be wrote down.
But ourselves and the few of the neighbours that I hear calling the cows shout out Chew on.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Dairy related as the starting point in the story but a long and interesting read about chancers and shady customers involved in all walks of life.

https://story.californiasunday.com/rocky-pipkin-agricultural-detective

Dawggone

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Must be.
These things don't be wrote down.
But ourselves and the few of the neighbours that I hear calling the cows shout out Chew on.

Funny, when calling horses I always use...Humm on..Humm on

pedigree 6

Dawggone wrote: »

Funny, when calling horses I always use...Humm on..Humm on

Ah you're weird.:D
For calling horses we shout ..Come on.. Come on.

stretch film

Cow's react less to c'mon etc imo.
How how is very effective. Mimics a dogs bark .???

whelan2

What are the target figures for submission rates?

whelan2

Dawggone wrote: »

Out of interest what word(s) do ye use to call animals?

The French use Ta Ta Ta...

for the cows its how on, normally try the same for youngstock usually followed by ffs

freedominacup

whelan2 wrote: »

for the cows its how on, normally try the same for youngstock usually followed by ffs

Listening to some fellas talking around 100% in four days would be acceptable.

Dawggone

freedominacup wrote: »

Listening to some fellas talking around 100% in four days would be acceptable.

Lol.

whelan2

freedominacup wrote: »

Listening to some fellas talking around 100% in four days would be acceptable.

I got 30% week one and 58% week 2. No estrumate or anything just tail paint, happy enough as dont know if I could cope if the majority actually held to first service, edited to say that doesnt include heifers

stretch film

whelan2 wrote: »

What are the target figures for submission rates?

Answering a question with a question.
What's your definition of submission rate

pedigree 6

whelan2 wrote: »

for the cows its how on, normally try the same for youngstock usually followed by ffs

It just occurred to me that if you cross cow and how you get chow.
But it's basically chew.

Cow on.
How on.
Chew on.

Other neighbours use Chew..Chew...Chew.

Dawggone

Really busy but an old Spanish pal from La Mancha tells me he's dropping in tomorrow with the usual hunk of Manchego and a bottle or two...

Sometimes you need to take a little breather and enjoy tall tales of la chasse...