When's calving starting 2022

Gudstock

Jacket on calf in pen with cow. Leave here or take and put under red lamp?

Anto_Meath

Calf tendons are probably a bit stretched after pulling, so it will take time for them to come right, could be up to a week. It will take time and patience on your behalf too. Try putting him sitting across a square bale of hay / straw so that he can suck the cow for a drink a few times a day. He needs to be upright at few times a day so that the circulation will start working in the legs. I am guessing that if he was such a big calf then the front legs a bent at the hock and they will need a wee while to come right and allow him get his balance.

squinn2912

Three or four days of weightlifting for you and hopefully he will be ok. Torture to get him sucking but once he does that

tanko

A few hours under the red lamp between feeds would do him the world of good for the first few days.

Gudstock

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Lime Tree Farm

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How are they now? Great calf - the full of the jacket - a tight fit

Gudstock

He has kinda gotten to his feet very briefly a few times but immediately fallen. When he did rise he didn't straighten the front legs.

He has gotten 2L beastings via tube 2 hrs after birth last night, only took a taste of it this morning with 500ml yogurt then, this evening maybe drank 500ml milk (at most) followed by another 500ml yogurt.

Gudstock

Cow remarkably ok so far.

Lime Tree Farm

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Maybe, get a bit of pain relief for him

squinn2912

5 to go now

James2022

Calved a heifer today. Knew straight away something was wrong with the calf. Was only taking a breathe every 30 seconds and heart was racing. Didn't blink or move its neck but would kick its back legs when shaken. Stayed alive about 15 mins which was strange since it wasn't breathing much. Not sure what was wrong. Perfect calf visibly and mother in good health.

golodge

Successful graffting. First calver lost her calf at 3days age. She was bawling for the whole day, so decided to try to give her another calf. She took it right away and the calf had a full belly within the first 15min. Happy mom and calf.

patsy_mccabe

Have a second calver here starting to calf. She has got very thin over the last few weeks but huge in the belly. Should I be expecting twins?

patsy_mccabe

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If you pour some water in it's ear and get it to shake it's head, it helps to jolt them a bit. Rub some straw strongly on it's side helps get the lungs going too.

tanko

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A second calver had twin Loyal bulls here last night, 9 months and 10 days. I find that almost always twins arrive between 9 months and 6 days and 10 days. She had twin Saler bulls last year, she’s a pain in the hole.

Lime Tree Farm

Wonder would a calf resucitator have worked, it does say it you need a heart beat before resuscitating

With the one here that was coming upside down and backwards, the Vet gave it an injection to stabilise the heart, said work the front and back legs while still on its side. We had done the water in the ear and pinch between nostrils.

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patsy_mccabe

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She just calved a large heifer. Would have been my last guess, expecting a large bull or maybe twins. Pulled her out with my bare hands. Got caught at the hips for a while but calf not under pressure. Trying to get up now.

Dozer1

bought 2 cows at a clearance sale a few months back, 2nd one calved this morning, both seemed ok in the mart but are 2 pure lunatics nervous as hell and will be getting the road as culls in the fall, maybe sooner if they don't settle.

7 spring cows only this year and all calved no issue, glad I cut back significantly this year just not work the hassle.

High bike

Have a first time calver here at 294 days to Knottstown Roy and not a sign of calving on her,has anyone found him to be long gestation??

James2022

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Vet showed me that trick a few years ago. I'll always do it if the calf isn't responding quick enough. I rubbed straw into it and worked all its muscles. Tried every trick I could think of. It just didn't have a connection with its neck or head for whatever reason. The mother has no milk so I'm a bit relieved not having to bottle an animal for the next month.

whelan2

Had a pedigree Angus heifer calving last night. First calf from a new bull we bought. Was very tight. Tongue swollen. Calf roaring as we were pulling it out. Got it out OK. Water in the ear etc. Drinking the mother now. Was a tough one

Gudstock

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An update on this guy, he's on the right track now after a few days of very tough work (milking cow, trying to feed him and exercising him), getting up and feeding from bucket a few times a day and walking a little, now to train him to the cow, a dose of hunger to encourage him i think. I topped him up with 2cc of Draxxin and Melovem yesterday which appear to have encouraged the drive in him.

ABitofsense

What do lads do with their late calvers? I've a good gap til end of May for last 4. 2 are big PD LM heifers & their starting to get a bit fat in the shed. Silage is abit too good.

Sugarbowl

I’ve a cow due end of May as well. She’s inside now but I plan to leave her run with the cows in another week. I can’t leave her inside alonE. Thankfully I put an easy calving AI bull into her so hoping for the best. She just kept repeating. But she’s in great condition now. Saw a mart during the week and poor money for suckler cows like her.

3rd last one calved here this evening. Outside with no assistance. A little red saler heifer for myself!

mr.stonewall

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Let them out to a small bit of ground and tie up a strip wire. Have 6 left to calve and they are in a small 1.5 acre wet paddock Plan on putting a few drains in it later this year so won't mind the damage. I move the wire on a small bit every day or so and they will skin in. Even have the rushes under the wire skint. Having them outside is great for them to loosen out. plan on putting them on the farm roadway when this is skint to clean the grass off.

Being outside is Better on man, better on beast and most important better on the pocket

tanko

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One thing to watch out for with a late calver like that is that if there are cows bulling, she might go mad mounting them like a bull, something to do with their hormones going mad close to calving, they can throw their calf because of this, the placenta can become detached. When cows were calving nearly all year round years ago here i remember a few cows who lost calves this way and saw it happen on a neighbours farm last year. Could you leave her in the shed and give her hay.

Seven Saler calves off Manclaux so far here and six of them bulls, what is your heifer off?

Base price

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+1

I let the last 4 out today into the paddocks beside the yard. I have a strip wire that I will move every few days but their isn't much grass on it cause I let cows out to graze it in Feb.

Sugarbowl

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I’ve 3 SA heifer calves…. 1 is Highfield Odhran and the other 2 are Dennis from Eurogene. All came red/blonde in colour. I’ve 1 bull out of Knottown Roy he’s black. Comparing them, Roy is the longest calf.

I’ve kept replacements off Dennis. Nice cows for me, milky as well.

RD10

Ended up having to do a section on a second calver I bought in.

Should it have been stated in the mart if she had a previous section done on her last year? Or is that luck of the draw?

Big hairy coat on her so didn't notice until now

Gudstock

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6 days later and he's drinking the cow for the first time!

Are charolais just trouble for part time farmers? We've never had a charolais bull just AI'd a few last year. 2 of the 3 almost died, the Lapon lad above, and had a Lapon heifer at 9 days old almost die of pneumonia on Christmas eve... Are there certain CH bloodlines to go for that throw very very consistent small, hardy calves?