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Best stomach tube ???

  • 08-01-2017 12:37am
    #1
    kerry cow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭


    Hi lads .
    Is there any good quality calf stomach tube out there on the market as all the ones I use break off the bag after a few uses or it leaks in the same place .All so anoying. Any pictures
    Also how do you freeze and thaw colostrum ?? Just to know how people do the above .I am sure people have different nacks
    Thanks


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  • #2
    Count Mondego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 969 ✭✭✭Count Mondego


    I find the cheap ones you get in the co op / vets are simple and best. You should only use it when you have to rather than on every calf just to get colostrum in quick.

    When defrosting, never microwave it.


  • #3
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,101 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    The speedy feeder 3L bottle with the screw in stomach tube is so much easier to use than the bag


  • #4
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,573 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    kerry cow wrote: »
    Hi lads .
    Is there any good quality calf stomach tube out there on the market as all the ones I use break off the bag after a few uses or it leaks in the same place .All so anoying. Any pictures
    Also how do you freeze and thaw colostrum ?? Just to know how people do the above .I am sure people have different nacks
    Thanks
    Mmm - "I have been manager of a large farm now for 15yrs and an very thank full of all that I have learned in dairying , beef and tillage while working here"
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=100374376


  • #5
    kerry cow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭kerry cow


    Always learning base .It's a bad day you don't pick something up from someone who knows more than you .


  • #6
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    kerry cow wrote: »
    Always learning base .It's a bad day you don't pick something up from someone who knows more than you .

    Did you move to Kerry in the end


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  • #7
    kerry cow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭kerry cow


    Yes .have 40 cows with me was hoping to go to 80 but looks a bit optimistic at moment .to get thing up and runing is taking a little more than I had thought .
    Bulk tank and palour and lots of bits and bobs that 10 yrs out of dairying takes it toll on infrastructure .The last few weeks have been hard and have definitely questioned the move and sometimes thinking I should have kept my old job . There you just got on with it .Cash is king I am afraid .
    Anyways .


  • #8
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    kerry cow wrote: »
    Hi lads .
    Is there any good quality calf stomach tube out there on the market as all the ones I use break off the bag after a few uses or it leaks in the same place .All so anoying. Any pictures
    Also how do you freeze and thaw colostrum ?? Just to know how people do the above .I am sure people have different nacks
    Thanks

    The old lectade one were good but the newer ones have a flatter end to the tube which makes it almost impossible to get the tube into the calfs stomach. I alway use stomach tubes for the first 3 feeds because I wouldn't have the patience or time to be messing around to get them drinking. I skip a feed after the third tubing and they will very quickly adapt to the test feeder with little effort.


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