Which to buy

max12

Am cutting back on sucklers due to being away a lot with work and am going to buy a lock of bulls to finish at 16 months.

Want to buy a few of local farmers. One lad has a very clean herd but quality only average but the second lad has quality stock but seems to have problems at calving time with crypto

Is there any chance of me bringing crypto around my place by buying off that fella. Weanlings would about a year old.

squinn2912

Surely if he has quality stock he will be vaccinating regularly. He could have an outbreak of crypto like one could have pneumonia or lots of things. If they're treated for it and houses washed down etc then that should sort it? Are you buying calves or weanlings? If calves they'd want to be well rid of it.

max12

squinn2912 wrote: »

Surely if he has quality stock he will be vaccinating regularly. He could have an outbreak of crypto like one could have pneumonia or lots of things. If they're treated for it and houses washed down etc then that should sort it? Are you buying calves or weanlings? If calves they'd want to be well rid of it.

It would be weanlings at say one yr old.

Didn’t think there was a Vac for crypto

squinn2912

There is something you can get to treat it. We had it some years back and gave every subsequent calf a drench of it. I can't remember what you call the stuff it was yellow and it kept us right. As soon as we could we gave the calving pens and all the sheds the mother of a hosing down and it kept it away since. From memory it was a mild, clammy early spring which is horrible conditions for bacteria. The calves were a little off colour for a while but turned into mighty cattle. I'm sure we had a very mild touch of it and I don;t really know enough about it other than this example to offer advice but if I were to be buying in a lot of cattle it would make me apprehensive as well. Would it be a thought to have a discreet talk with your vet about it and go from there? If them cattle are a year old and they're thriving then I'd be going for the better animals. I've got a neighbor who swears by buying the in-between beast so it's your own preference at the end of it all. I hope it goes well for you.

tractorporn

max12 wrote:

Didn’t think there was a Vac for crypto

squinn2912 wrote:

There is something you can get to treat it. We had it some years back and gave every subsequent calf a drench of it. I can't remember what you call the stuff it was yellow and it kept us right.

Your right there is no vaccine for crypto. Halocur is the name of that product you have to give a dose every day for 14 days.

Pidae.m

tractorporn wrote: »

Your right there is no vaccine for crypto. Halocur is the name of that product you have to give a dose every day for 14 days.

The word halocur brings me out in a cold sweat!!!!

milkprofit

dont even visit farm with Crypto