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When's calving starting 2021

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    #902
    RD10
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    Pic?


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    #903
    Limestone Cowboy
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    RD10 wrote: »
    Pic?

    Quality not that great.


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    #904
    Limestone Cowboy
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    tanko wrote: »
    Good stuff, i couldn't have been more wrong. Is the calf off your new Sim bull?

    Ya, let him off with a good few roan ones, this is the first roan he bred.


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    #905
    squinn2912
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    That’s a real nice calf


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    #906
    Base price
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Quality not that great.
    She is a lovely calf and will be worth some money in time if you sell her.


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    #907
    Base price
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    A friesian cow calved a angus bull calf on Friday morning. OH put iodine on its navel and the calf was up sucking in half an hour. I noticed a fair few spots of blood in its dung a few minutes ago. The calf is otherwise healthy, sucking and doesn't have a temperature. Does it have a problem scour coming on?


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    #908
    whelan2
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    I takes a few days for things to be normal after being born. If it's not sick and dung was OK otherwise I wouldn't worry


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    #909
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Better pic.


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    #910
    patsy_mccabe
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Better pic.

    Great timber under her, as they say around here.........

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #911
    Albert Johnson
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Great timber under her, as they say around here.........

    The cow made good work to calve her, that's a fine calf and hopefully a cow maker for the future.


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    #912
    Toplink
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    Any of ye plagued with Crypto scour this year? Past 4 weeks have been rough. Never experienced anything like it before.


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    #913
    lab man
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Better pic.

    She'll be one for gort


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    #914
    whelan2
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    Toplink wrote: »
    Any of ye plagued with Crypto scour this year? Past 4 weeks have been rough. Never experienced anything like it before.

    Touch wood. None here this year yet. Hope I don't jinx it


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    #915
    Hard Knocks
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    Touch wood. None here this year yet. Hope I don't jinx it

    The mild spring brought allot of problems
    Like to move calving to January to avoid Crypto


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    #916
    Sami23
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    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    The mild spring brought allot of problems
    Like to move calving to January to avoid Crypto

    Why is that - is it related to air temperature ?


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    #917
    Hard Knocks
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    Sami23 wrote: »
    Why is that - is it related to air temperature ?

    With the mild spring, good quality first cut silage from last year Vets were busy around here with sections and crypto
    We’d a bit this year for the first time in a good while
    A friend was telling me he gives every March & April born calves halacur and had done for years but doesn’t to the Christmas calves


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    #918
    squinn2912
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    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    With the mild spring, good quality first cut silage from last year Vets were busy around here with sections and crypto
    We’d a bit this year for the first time in a good while
    A friend was telling me he gives every March & April born calves halacur and had done for years but doesn’t to the Christmas calves

    We had it with a f*** of a drop calf we bought in. Two others got a mild lick of it but we had the halacur right away with them. This all happened in autumn and obviously the pens were thoroughly cleaned but yea some of the later calves were a bit dopey so they got the halacur too and it tightened them up.


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    #919
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Another 1 waiting for me this morning :D


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    #920
    funkey_monkey
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    Seanhorse91 wrote: »
    Caught a yearling heifer sucking an incalf heifer who’s about 8 weeks from calving. Brought her in, milk in all 4 quarters.
    What’s the best thing I can do for her to ensure she doesn’t lose any quarters?
    Milk her out, tube her and seal her? Or don’t milk at all?
    Leave her be?
    Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

    If an in-calf cow is being sucked prior to calving how does this affect her? Does it have an effect on the calving date?


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    #921
    greysides
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    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    If a cow is being sucked prior to calving how does this affect her? Does it have an effect on the calving date?

    Her colostrum will be useless. Have surplus colostrum ready for her calf.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



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    #922
    RD10
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Another 1 waiting for me this morning :D

    Lovely animal. Heifer???


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    #923
    Limestone Cowboy
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    RD10 wrote: »
    Lovely animal. Heifer???

    Ya.


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    #924
    tanko
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Ya.

    Is there much shorthorn breeding in the mother?


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    #925
    Limestone Cowboy
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    tanko wrote: »
    Is there much shorthorn breeding in the mother?

    Not much, mother is a lim out of a ch x sh cow.


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    #926
    Sami23
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    Bought a few bags of Rolled Oats in local co op today for a couple of late calves to feed with minerals. But when I opened the bag the oats don't seem to be rolled at all. Seem to be full oats.
    Just wondering does this make much difference for feeding to the cows.
    Cows on hay also.


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    #927
    White Clover
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    Sami23 wrote: »
    Bought a few bags of Rolled Oats in local co op today for a couple of late calves to feed with minerals. But when I opened the bag the oats don't seem to be rolled at all. Seem to be full oats.
    Just wondering does this make much difference for feeding to the cows.
    Cows on hay also.

    They'll pass straight through. They'd be fine for sheep but need to be rolled for cattle.


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    #928
    Sami23
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    Sami23 wrote: »
    Bought a few bags of Rolled Oats in local co op today for a couple of late calves to feed with minerals. But when I opened the bag the oats don't seem to be rolled at all. Seem to be full oats.
    Just wondering does this make much difference for feeding to the cows.
    Cows on hay also.

    Anyone


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    #929
    Lime Tree Farm
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    Sami23 wrote: »
    Anyone

    If it say's Rolled oats on the bag, then that's what should be in the bag. Check with wherever you bought it and get a replacement.


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    #930
    Anto_Meath
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    I do feed rolled oats to the bucket fed calves (an old man told me it helps stop them getting the belly bucket fed calves can get and I think it works) but the stuff you buy can sometimes seem to be poorly rolled it more like its chopped.


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    #931
    funkey_monkey
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    Sami23 wrote: »
    Bought a few bags of Rolled Oats in local co op today for a couple of late calves to feed with minerals. But when I opened the bag the oats don't seem to be rolled at all. Seem to be full oats.
    Just wondering does this make much difference for feeding to the cows.
    Cows on hay also.

    Can you not take them back? Has the bag been mislabelled or was the wrong bag picked up?


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