When's calving starting 2020

whelan2

Have a couple of heifers springing at the minute. Thought it would be a couple of weeks before there would be any calves . Trying to get everything organized. Wont be any cows calving until the end of the month. So when is calving starting for everyone else

tanko

Paddys day i'd say.

mahoney_j

whelan2 wrote: »

Have a couple of heifers springing at the minute. Thought it would be a couple of weeks before there would be any calves . Trying to get everything organized. Wont be any cows calving until the end of the month. So when is calving starting for everyone else

First one due 06/02 according to icbf but as per usual they’ll start dropping last few days jan ,

ABitofsense

6 Mar first due, 2 heifers

mr.stonewall

1st of April for the majority. Had one calve last night, down with milk fever but up now. Last of the autumn calvers (3) slowly making their way late spring calving.

awaywithyou

had 2 last weekend... 1 tues... 25 since thurs evening.... always start Jan 1st.... 7 heifers:rolleyes: one of them from a heifer that kept to sexed semen... if i had my way id scrap A.I. and go with bulls... used sexed on heifers... would have more heifers i think?

Mooooo

Feb 1st is the first due date so whenever they start

Millionaire only not

25/1 -onwards still milking lates , not looking forward to it yet !
I’m lazy as sin over Xmas !

valtra2

2 down 50 more to go before 28 March.

GrasstoMilk

27th of jan.
Have a 2 heifers due on 6th and 8th of feb springing though and a few early Feb cows.
Still have 80 or so tails to clip, fencing and calf shed to get sorted

Base price

Have a HEx heifer that I bought in as a calf in February and put her treble suckling on Daisy - our old Jersey cow. She never showed any signs of bulling and tbh I thought that she must be a free martin even though her teats and vulva/hairs looked normal.

I have her in a pen for the Winter with Daisy, the two Shorthorns and a runt of a AAx bull that I put on onto Daisy after the other three were weaned. A neighbour called for a bale of straw on Friday, stood looking at them for a while and remarked to OH how the HEx heifer was well in calf as he could see the calf moving in her.

I'd written her off as a free martin and haven't taken much notice of her since. I'm in my place since Thursday and won't get too see her until Tuesday.

A pic of her after she was weaned off Daisy -

visatorro

Not long finished autumn batch. Middle of Feb according to the calendar.

tellmeabit

3 the 1st week of March.🀞

squinn2912

I reckon 3 weeks. No scan or bulling date for the first and she’s mud fat so there could be work. Few days into giving minerals, gotta look about straw soon have enough to do the first 5/6. Silly season.

wats the craic

27 of jan all calved i 11 weeks or so

whelan2

A heifer calved this morning. Ugh not in the humour for this yet

bogman_bass

10th of feb till the 10th of April here

Buford T. Justice XIX

7th February here but we'll have 3 or 4 milking at the end of January. In one way I'm looking forward to it for a bit of structure to the day:rolleyes:

GrasstoMilk

https://youtu.be/Xo-SxBtb_i0

GrasstoMilk

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

7th February here but we'll have 3 or 4 milking at the end of January. In one way I'm looking forward to it for a bit of structure to the day:rolleyes:

Back to work probably today and I'm heading off tomorrow evening then to the IGA conference!
Concrete lads supposed to arrive this week to get walls and floor in for a new calf shed. Hoping to have the feeder in before calves start coming in 2 weeks or so. We've lots of fencing yo do aswell..wont be long coming around

Buford T. Justice XIX

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Back to work probably today and I'm heading off tomorrow evening then to the IGA conference!
Concrete lads supposed to arrive this week to get walls and floor in for a new calf shed. Hoping to have the feeder in before calves start coming in 2 weeks or so. We've lots of fencing yo do aswell..wont be long coming around

Just as soon as you reach the end of it, you have to start back replacing it again:D

High bike

23rd Jan here by the AI docket but prob nearer 1st of Feb

RD10

Two calved before the christmas, one this month and rest from next month.
First year for a few years chancing charlaois on a few of the bigger cows. Using fiston.
Easy calving i've heard
Anyone ever have any bother with him?

Omallep2

RD10 wrote: »

Two calved before the christmas, one this month and rest from next month.
First year for a few years chancing charlaois on a few of the bigger cows. Using fiston.
Easy calving i've heard
Anyone ever have any bother with him?

I've used Fiston without issue. I also have a few cows from him and although not the milkiest they are doing a good job and are docile.

tellmeabit

RD10 wrote: »

Two calved before the christmas, one this month and rest from next month.
First year for a few years chancing charlaois on a few of the bigger cows. Using fiston.
Easy calving i've heard
Anyone ever have any bother with him?

Used him on a good 2nd calver last yr, bit if a pull with the Jack, but nothing serious. Nice bull calf off him

Lady Haywire

At home we've nothing calving until the end of March, putting in data at work today & 90% held to first service so about 350 to calve in March.
Be grand :pac::D

whelan2

Lady Haywire wrote: »

At home we've nothing calving until the end of March, putting in data at work today & 90% held to first service so about 350 to calve in March.
Be grand :pac::D

Book your holidays for March

Lady Haywire

whelan2 wrote: »

Book your holidays for March

Not allowed! June will do me

Dunedin

3rd week of January here.

What disinfectant are people using in the sheds beforehand?

tanko

Dunedin wrote: »

3rd week of January here.

What disinfectant are people using in the sheds beforehand?

Kilcox extra.

whelan2

Dunedin wrote: »

3rd week of January here.

What disinfectant are people using in the sheds beforehand?

Fairy liquid:) no I use interkokask

Lady Haywire

We have 36 due on one day in March :pac:

Panch18

Lady Haywire wrote: »

We have 36 due on one day in March :pac:

Are you working on a dairy farm now?

390kid

Cow with time up here pushed a big lump out her side this evening never seen anything like it, bones aren’t dropped and her bags not full but she might start to press every so often? Should I be worried? Any advice on this😂

tanko

390kid wrote: »

Cow with time up here pushed a big lump out her side this evening never seen anything like it, bones aren’t dropped and her bags not full but she might start to press every so often? Should I be worried? Any advice on this��

Is it a ventral hernia? Best ring your vet in the morning.

390kid

tanko wrote: »

Is it a ventral hernia? Best ring your vet in the morning.

I don’t know it’s large and soft and between her ribs and back she doesn’t seem to be in pain or uncomfortable but the old boy looked at her and said he never seen the like before. Vet in the morning so

tanko

Had a cow get a hernia before calving years ago, she calved fine, sucked the calf for a few weeks and went to the factory then, she was pretty fat.

Lady Haywire

Panch18 wrote: »

Are you working on a dairy farm now?

Yep!

grassroot1

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Yep!

ah Skywalker you have turned to the dark side!!

first ones due here on 6th Feb, 18 held to syncro so might be fun!!!

390kid

tanko wrote: »

Had a cow get a hernia before calving years ago, she calved fine, sucked the calf for a few weeks and went to the factory then, she was pretty fat.

Had vet out this morning he reckons it just a knock she got in the pen so fingers crossed shel be ok

Lady Haywire

grassroot1 wrote: »

ah Skywalker you have turned to the dark side!!

first ones due here on 6th Feb, 18 held to syncro so might be fun!!!

Was a bit of a no brainer tbh, I love calving & working with calves so instead of twiddling my thumbs waiting for them to arrive here I was as well be paid for it:D
I was actually asked on Twitter, it wasn't even something I'd thought about doing as there's very few dairies around me. Bit of a steep learning curve to go though though, they're mostly crossbreds too.

Panch18

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Was a bit of a no brainer tbh, I love calving & working with calves so instead of twiddling my thumbs waiting for them to arrive here I was as well be paid for it:D
I was actually asked on Twitter, it wasn't even something I'd thought about doing as there's very few dairies around me. Bit of a steep learning curve to go though though, they're mostly crossbreds too.

good on ya - best of luck with it

You seem like a great stock woman so it'll be no bother to ya

Lady Haywire

Panch18 wrote: »

good on ya - best of luck with it

You seem like a great stock woman so it'll be no bother to ya

Hopefully!
I'm putting in all the ICBF stuff right now to get myself sorted for calving. Totally different to home here.

patsy_mccabe

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Yep!

She's took the soup. Best of luck with it.

50HX

RD10 wrote: »

Two calved before the christmas, one this month and rest from next month.
First year for a few years chancing charlaois on a few of the bigger cows. Using fiston.
Easy calving i've heard
Anyone ever have any bother with him?

Using fsz with a good while and found him very reliable with regards to the icbf figures..he's well proven

Calves come nice and easy but don't be long filling out after the first month if you've cows with milk

tanko

RD10 wrote: »

Two calved before the christmas, one this month and rest from next month.
First year for a few years chancing charlaois on a few of the bigger cows. Using fiston.
Easy calving i've heard
Anyone ever have any bother with him?

Never had any bother with him, only used him on cows that had two calves. I'd consider him easier calved than ZAG, had more bother calving him here.
Your bigger cows should be ideal for him. There seem to be more twins off him than normal, have even seen a couple of sets of triplets off him.
Some of his calves aren't the quietest, i've heard a few people say this and i've noticed it here myself, have had a couple of mental ones.

RD10

Thats reassuring to know. Would'nt have used a whole lot of charlaois in the past, but like i said there seems to be good reviews on fiston.
Would have last used charloais here about 7 or 8 years ago. 'Easy calving' and jesus every one of one them bar two came with a fairly big pull.
Thankfully a set of twins from a cow that i knew was very heavy looking.
Thats an interesting one on fiston and twins.
Have a cow here in calf to him, quite heavy looking i've noticed for about 2 or 3 weeks now and not due for another month. i've been wondering to myself whether she'll have twins or not. Could well be.

Timmaay

Been on holidays the last 2wks, and bloody typical 2 heifer's have calved afew weeks early ugh.

whelan2

Timmaay wrote: »

Been on holidays the last 2wks, and bloody typical 2 heifer's have calved afew weeks early ugh.

Did you dry off completely this year or milk on?

Timmaay

whelan2 wrote: »

Did you dry off completely this year or milk on?

2rows of april/may calvers still milking, have been OAD most of Dec.

Mooooo

It's not so bad if an early calf lands and you're still milking, if they're all dry it's a right pain. If milking on late calvers be no harm to change liners beforenspring calving starts, will reduce risk of any scc carry over.