Dairy chit chat II

RightTurnClyde

Injuryprone wrote: »

Did you inject him in the rump by any chance? Vet injected a calf with pneumonia years ago, and he developed similar symptoms after a couple of days. Needle must've pinched a nerve he said. Came right by itself over time.

Injections would have been either into the neck or under the skin. I did something like that myself years ago, injected a calf in the rump and hit a nerve, and he was lame for a few days, but came fine . I go with the neck ever since. No guy is different, he has no power at all in the back legs, when I lift him up he can't get the back legs down,even though the front legs are working perfectly. He's not sick any more, drinking great, full of energy. It's a balls after getting him over the scour and pneumonia, and now this.

mf240

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

Have a calf here whose back legs are not functioning after getting scour. He's over the scour, drinking perfectly, and appears to be fully rehydrated. He is dunging fine aswell.
He's very alert and the front legs have full power, but back legs have no power, and he's knuckling them (like a cow that's been hurt during calving) Any ideas?

Is he behaving as if he's drunk. Sometimes a bad scour will cause the stomach to become so acidic that it makes the calf drunk. Try him with some breadsoda

Mooooo

We had a calf not exactly like that but couldn't get up for close on 3 weeks no power at all in the legs but came eventually, couldn't figure it out he did fine after

RightTurnClyde

mf240 wrote: »

Is he behaving as if he's drunk. Sometimes a bad scour will cause the stomach to become so acidic that it makes the calf drunk. Try him with some breadsoda

I'll fire a few Efydrals into him, I think there's sodium bicarbonate in them. Can't do any harm anyway

Timmaay

Just about got away with this!

yewtree

Taken from the indo today on stress free dairy farming, it's remarkable how similar the suggestions are to what was posted on here a couple of days on another thead

Buford T. Justice XIX

Balls!

My blind calf was a bit down this morning after feeding so I covered her in straw and continued her antibiotics. She was slow dtinking this evening so i have het 1 liter and went down just now to give her the rest. She seemed settled in but I decided to wake her but she was stone cold dead.

Balls.

RightTurnClyde

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Balls!

My blind calf was a bit down this morning after feeding so I covered her in straw and continued her antibiotics. She was slow dtinking this evening so i have het 1 liter and went down just now to give her the rest. She seemed settled in but I decided to wake her but she was stone cold dead.

Balls.

Sick calves and down cows can be the hardest and most thankless part of farming. You did the best you could for her, you can't do any more than that

pedigree 6

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Balls!

My blind calf was a bit down this morning after feeding so I covered her in straw and continued her antibiotics. She was slow dtinking this evening so i have het 1 liter and went down just now to give her the rest. She seemed settled in but I decided to wake her but she was stone cold dead.

Balls.

Any calf is feeling it in this cold wind even inside.

You did your best.
That's all you could do.

visatorro

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Any calf is feeling it in this cold wind even inside.

You did your best.
That's all you could do.

Brought calves back in today. Just for a couple of days hopefully. Maybe Its harm I'm doing but they're in now anyway.

Mooooo

Glanbia plc and glanbia coop have signed a binding agreement apparently but still has to go to vote how does that work? On business news on RTÉ there

whelan2

Feck it, sent a text to the ai man that was meant for my husband :cool: could have been worse

whelan2

Mooooo wrote: »

Glanbia plc and glanbia coop have signed a binding agreement apparently but still has to go to vote how does that work? On business news on RTÉ there

https://www.glanbiaconnect.com/news/glanbia-co-op-shareholders-to-vote-on-glanbia-ireland-v-proposal

Buford T. Justice XIX

whelan2 wrote: »

Feck it, sent a text to the ai man that was meant for my husband :cool: could have been worse

AI man will be on early this morning so:D

whelan2

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

AI man will be on early this morning so:D

He arrived a few minutes after I copped what I did and had a good laugh about it:o

jaymla627

Mooooo wrote: »

Glanbia plc and glanbia coop have signed a binding agreement apparently but still has to go to vote how does that work? On business news on RTÉ there

Information meetings are being held shortly, have a nice tricky question to ask re outstanding debt owed to agribusiness which is usually running around 30-40 million will this money when recovered go entirely to the plc coffers our is it included as part of the deal, theirs a pension issue aswell are the co-op on signing the deal going to have to fund 60% of all agribusiness employees pensions both current and into the future

hurling_lad

yewtree wrote: »

Taken from the indo today on stress free dairy farming, it's remarkable how similar the suggestions are to what was posted on here a couple of days on another thead

"There is nothing worse than downer cows"
Amen to that.

mahoney_j

jaymla627 wrote: »

Information meetings are being held shortly, have a nice tricky question to ask re outstanding debt owed to agribusiness which is usually running around 30-40 million will this money when recovered go entirely to the plc coffers our is it included as part of the deal, theirs a pension issue aswell are the co-op on signing the deal going to have to fund 60% of all agribusiness employees pensions both current and into the future

You just blew your cover with that question jay as that rep in Nigeria is still lurking around here I'd say and he'll be reporting back to management with this ........

kowtow

jaymla627 wrote:

Information meetings are being held shortly, have a nice tricky question to ask re outstanding debt owed to agribusiness which is usually running around 30-40 million will this money when recovered go entirely to the plc coffers our is it included as part of the deal, theirs a pension issue aswell are the co-op on signing the deal going to have to fund 60% of all agribusiness employees pensions both current and into the future

The receivables would generally be sold with the business... ie. The balance sheet will be struck for a given date, sometimes an adjustment can be provided for in each direction should the figures change between negotiation and completion.

mf240

jaymla627 wrote: »

Information meetings are being held shortly, have a nice tricky question to ask re outstanding debt owed to agribusiness which is usually running around 30-40 million will this money when recovered go entirely to the plc coffers our is it included as part of the deal, theirs a pension issue aswell are the co-op on signing the deal going to have to fund 60% of all agribusiness employees pensions both current and into the future

You'll get a generic rehearsed answer shoehorned into your question .

whelan2

mahoney_j wrote: »

You just blew your cover with that question jay as that rep in Nigeria is still lurking around here I'd say and he'll be reporting back to management with this ........

I am fairly sure the Glanbia rep in Nigeria is not the only Glanbia rep reading here.

Keepgrowing

kowtow wrote: »

The receivables would generally be sold with the business... ie. The balance sheet will be struck for a given date, sometimes an adjustment can be provided for in each direction should the figures change between negotiation and completion.

Elementary stuff

kowtow

Keepgrowing wrote:

Elementary stuff

On that basis it's definitely a point worth checking!

Sam Kade

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Balls!

My blind calf was a bit down this morning after feeding so I covered her in straw and continued her antibiotics. She was slow dtinking this evening so i have het 1 liter and went down just now to give her the rest. She seemed settled in but I decided to wake her but she was stone cold dead.

Balls.

What I do in that situation is send them off to the knackery as soon as possible and forget about them. I know a woman that used to spend a week in a depression after an animal dying, it never did her any good.

Sam Kade

Jim Woulfe lifting dairy farmers spirits

http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dairygold-ceo-outlines-impact-of-brexit-on-farm-gate-milk-prices/#

pedigree 6

whelan2 wrote: »

I am fairly sure the Glanbia rep in Nigeria is not the only Glanbia rep reading here.

It's worse when people know who you are!

Mention reseeding on here and the next salesman in the yard is trying to sell you grass seed.

I'll cod em someday though.:)

pedigree 6

Sam Kade wrote: »

What I do in that situation is send them off to the knackery as soon as possible and forget about them. I know a woman that used to spend a week in a depression after an animal dying, it never did her any good.

Or the rest of the animals.

You can't be like that when you're a livestock farmer.
Not very practical.

K.G.

whelan2 wrote: »

Feck it, sent a text to the ai man that was meant for my husband :cool: could have been worse

Would it be worse if you sent a text to your husband that was meant for the ai man

Timmaay

pedigree 6 wrote: »

It's worse when people know who you are!

Mention reseeding on here and the next salesman in the yard is trying to sell you grass seed.

I'll cod em someday though.:)

One particular salesman has been religiously showing up here every month despite me having bought nothing off him in 18 months, I snapped at him a week ago, kept it short and sweet, before he had a chance to say a word I told him I have his number, if I need anything I'll contact him, and walked away then.

Then Only a few days ago 2 esb chaps in suits rocked up, whole speech lined up "hello, who is your current electricity provider", I hesitated for a sec, wondering do I entertain them, then jsut go sorry I don't have time for this crap, I'll look up bonkers.ie if I want to change and they just turned around and left. I feel great jsut saying no now ha!

pedigree 6

Timmaay wrote: »

One particular salesman has been religiously showing up here every month despite me having bought nothing off him in 18 months, I snapped at him a week ago, kept it short and sweet, before he had a chance to say a word I told him I have his number, if I need anything I'll contact him, and walked away then.

Then Only a few days ago 2 esb chaps in suits rocked up, whole speech lined up "hello, who is your current electricity provider", I hesitated for a sec, wondering do I entertain them, then jsut go sorry I don't have time for this crap, I'll look up bonkers.ie if I want to change and they just turned around and left. I feel great jsut saying no now ha!

Ah it is a lonely oul job for a salesman.
He probably just calls in for a chat.:D

Back in the Age of the Dinosaurs my father had a policy with Combined Insurance. I don't mind saying the name because they're long gone.
But he was paying by direct debit in the bank for a few years and then couldn't see the point of it (seen the light) and stopped the payments.
Well the amount of reps that turned up every few weeks that wouldn't take no for an answer, took the biscuit.
They sent out old male reps with sob stories of the company paying their wages to young female (apologise to the females here) reps with short skirts who would try and get him to change his mind.
Really if anyone has seen the film "The Wolf of Wall Street" this company was like something Jordan Belfort dreamed up.
Dad went back the first year but dug his heels in and left them after that.
Lucky escape. But it would show you what tactics can be used if how can I say you're a little bit soft.:pac: