Dairy chit chat II

charolais0153

Mooooo wrote: »

Have you a teaser and chinball you could Use? Or you could synchronise them and keep the paint topped up, at least then they would be in heat the same time

+1 if you have all your ducks in a row synchronisation can be very successful.
Also was working for contract rearer last summer and he uses chinball and vasectomised bull. Very effective. Easy to spot the ones marked.
He also used angus bulls so take your pick.

simx

Mooooo wrote: »

Have you a teaser and chinball you could Use? Or you could synchronise them and keep the paint topped up, at least then they would be in heat the same time

Yes have a teaser but heifers a good few miles away is my predicament

Mooooo

simx wrote: »

Yes have a teaser but heifers a good few miles away is my predicament

Is there a yard There? Could sync the heifers a few days before starting cows, get em done then you'll have to go there anyway. Once they are served once leave the bull with them until it's time for him to go with cows. Most should hold to fr and the others should get two chances to the bull then?. That's the way most lads round here do it when heifers aren't on home block.

3 the square

any body know what the rate of mortality in dairy cows should be or around ??

alps

3 the square wrote: »

any body know what the rate of mortality in dairy cows should be or around ??

Guess at 2%

GrasstoMilk

simx wrote: »

Anyone order the moocall heat sensor, thinking of one for heifers a bit away, had a bull with them last year but want to start ai them as want to give fr straws, don't want to buy a bull for them as there's only going to be 10-15 of them

Yeah bought it here. Like yourself the heifers are away and finding it hard to pick them up. Have been doing everything possible to pick them up, synchronisation, tail paint, kamars etc.
I should know now in the morning before I go milking what heifers are bulling.
No bull here so when the late repeats came I'd miss them and be loosing 1 or 2 heifers. This should remedy that problem now
Will still be synchronising them though

simx

Mooooo wrote: »

Is there a yard There? Could sync the heifers a few days before starting cows, get em done then you'll have to go there anyway. Once they are served once leave the bull with them until it's time for him to go with cows. Most should hold to fr and the others should get two chances to the bull then?. That's the way most lads round here do it when heifers aren't on home block.

Only bought a bull for the heifers this year cos they're a bit away, the lad I rent the land off looks at them most days so it's handy, cows are all bred to ai

whelan2

See pg are promoting it now. No sign of the heat time system in their catalogues at all

Gawddawggonnit

Taken from Twitter...Jesus wept.

alps

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Taken from Twitter...Jesus wept.

Not all crossbred herds are looked after l8ke this.....

whelan2

alps wrote: »

Not all crossbred herds are looked after l8ke this.....

Some amount of comments on fb about it too

Keepgrowing

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Taken from Twitter...Jesus wept.

Absolutely shocking. If a guy thinks it's ok to post this on Twitter one can only imagine how his operation is run.

We all get caught out at times or perhaps miss some of the detail but that's a shocking picture.

That kinda shyte only created the need for the rest of us to work all that harder

I offer this as a counter

#Febudairy #mearse

GrasstoMilk

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Taken from Twitter...Jesus wept.

Seen the original post on Fb yesterday. What an absolute tit brain.
And he spent the whole day defending himself as to why it was okay and how we all get caught out.
Put them in a straw pen and then take the photo.

The vegans will have a field day

GrasstoMilk

http://m2-magazine.org/vaccination-staphylococcus-aureus-escherichia-coli-mastitis-supports-early-immune-response-lactating-dairy-cows/

This mastitis vaccine was talked about here last week I think.
Here's a bit of a trial on it. Looks promising

Wildsurfer

3 the square wrote: »

any body know what the rate of mortality in dairy cows should be or around ??

It should be as close to 0% as possible! But there's some issue either health or management wise if above 2% I'd say.

Mooooo

Cow calved today and I swear to Christ she's had a cut off every cow in the herd since joining em.

freedominacup

Mooooo wrote: »

Cow calved today and I swear to Christ she's had a cut off every cow in the herd since joining em.

Those ones are some pain in the bollox when you're drying off. They have a row every time there's a new batch dried.

Keepgrowing

Last Monday while drafting springers I injured my shin. It was smashed off a wall be a passing cow. Very sore at the time and big black bruise. Thought no more, continued working as we're at peak calving.

Roll on to Sat evening, kept in hospital for iv antibiotics as leg in infected despite no skin broken in original incident. Came home from hospital and continued as normal despite being told to rest. Absolutely fooked on the couch now since my sister in law (nurse) looked at my injury at lunch.

if things don't improve by morning I'm back to hospital tomorrow. Got a guy to come help with morning milking and night calving. My usual job was the night shift and early morning.

Lads and lassies, we are not indestructible take it handy.

Ffs, some timing all the same

charolais0153

Keepgrowing wrote: »

Last Monday while drafting springers I injured my shin. It was smashed off a wall be a passing cow. Very sore at the time and big black bruise. Thought no more, continued working as we're at peak calving.

Roll on to Sat evening, kept in hospital fior iv antibiotics as leg in infected despite no skin broken in original incident. Came home from hospital and continued as normal despite being told to rest. Absolutely fooked on the couch now since my sister in law (nurse) looked at my injury at lunch.

if things don't improve by morning I'm back to hospital tomorrow. Got a guy to come help with morning milking and night calving. My usual job was the night shift and early morning.

Lads and lassies, we are not indestructible take it handy.

Ffs, some timing all the same

How did your shin get hut . wouldnt your foot or knee get the brunt or was a wall jutting out?
Shute timing all the same

K.G.

Vet out today .cow started showing rank cleaning even though she hadnt calved yet saturday night,handled her and she wasnt open but left her as i thought she might spring more and some times the handling brings them.anyway vet said she wont calve it and to chance factory but shes not sick.shes a grand cow and im just wondering any one had something like it and did she pass it

stretch film

K.G. wrote: »

Vet out today .cow started showing rank cleaning even though she hadnt calved yet saturday night,handled her and she wasnt open but left her as i thought she might spring more and some times the handling brings them.anyway vet said she wont calve it and to chance factory but shes not sick.shes a grand cow and im just wondering any one had something like it and did she pass it

If calf is bloated and decaying then it's curtains.
Had a calf delivered by cesarean tears ago that resembled as sow more than calf.
Rancid doesn't even describe it .
Cow put out of misery eventually

Mooooo

How far into gestation is she? If she is anywhere near the end calf will either swell or rot, best to factory or else section out the calf??

stretch film

Mooooo wrote: »

How far into gestation is she? If she is anywhere near the end calf will either swell or rot, best to factory or else section out the calf??

Do not section would be my advice.

K.G.

Sectioning that a receipe for disaster with infection.she healthy as a stone

Mooooo

If it stays in she won't be healthy for long. Factory prob the best bet, it's a dose as these things never happen the cow you wouldn't mind seeing the back of

George Sunsnow

Putting this here for those that mightn’t have had the heads up

Read it and take some measures even if it doesn’t happen
Though it looks very likely at this stage

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057843354/2/#post106200209

kowtow

You gotta love twitter.

GrasstoMilk

Time to put on the brakes.
30% grazed so far. Plan was to graze 40% in Feb but I'll over shoot that if I keep going the way I am.
Great regrowth on what's grazed. Had thoughts of letting out heifers but I'll wait and see what the weekends weather brings

Timmaay

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Time to put on the brakes.
30% grazed so far. Plan was to graze 40% in Feb but I'll over shoot that if I keep going the way I am.
Great regrowth on what's grazed. Had thoughts of letting out heifers but I'll wait and see what the weekends weather brings

Another reason to reduce the number of autumn milkers

jaymla627

Loving these lavaman heifers, the ole ebi mighten be great but at least their easy on the eye