GrasstoMilk wrote: » Getting a lot of calves sucking other calves navels this year. Never used to be an issue before. One calf particularly bad at it. Had her separated for 2 week on her own and after chancing her again a few days ago and she's still at it. Gets a smack on the nose when ever we see them at it but it's not deterring them. Anything ye could do with her?
whelan2 wrote: » Anti sucking device or put stockholm tar on the other calves navels
GrasstoMilk wrote: Would the anti sucking device work on calves? Heard of calves getting navel infections from Stockholm tar
blackdog1 wrote: Fayne Valley sell an excellent nose ring for calves and cows comes in 2 sizes, very well made comes from France.
visatorro wrote: » Maize, soya (bean) meal dehulled, maize gluten, soya (bean) hulls, palm kernel expeller, wheat feed, ddgs, distillers, Cane molasses, rape seed meal.. Works out 20% prot. 250e blown in. Any thoughts? Also the actual nut itself is smaller than the order nut we were using , older generation reckons it goes through the feeder quicker???
Signpost wrote: » What % did you est on day 7 & 9? Or another way of asking the same, how many of the 30% not to keep to AI were not on a natural cycle?
jaymla627 wrote: » Paying 275 for a 18% nut here but has a high spec mineral/megalac included and no fillers just maize/high pro soya bean meal/sugar beet pulp and wheat, with p.k ddgs and maize gluten in the above your ole chap could be spot on to it going through the feeder quicker
visatorro wrote: » Any thoughts?
visatorro wrote: » What's DDGS?
freedominacup wrote: » Pure ****e.
Keepgrowing wrote: » I can't answer for full AI but I can give you our experience All maidens housed for mating on straw bed. Fed straw, concentrate and a little silage. All on target weight with good bcs. We AI for 7 days all natural heats Est remainder on day 7-9 AI all heats Return heifers to grass one day after AI to run with He bull. Result last year was 70% conception to AI
satstheway wrote: » Are there any apps to keep medicine records. I looking for simple click a calendar date put in what product used and it will do the withdrawal and printout options?
stretch film wrote: » How long before MSD do you house . I'm thinking about the abrupt change in diet. I presume big numbers are proving unmanageable outside . Have you tried fixed time Ai.
Brown Podzol wrote: » Do the same here, house on slats,feed silage and 2kg meal,AI for 9/10 days, eus the remainder then and return to field and bull the day after AI. Usually all AI'd after 12/14 days.70/80% hold to AI. An added advantage here is that I can observe the shed with the calving camera and at full zoom I can read the freeze brands.
visatorro wrote: » Use herdwatch find it handy, there's a 30free trial. Don't actually know about printing
satstheway wrote: » Does herdwatch do the withdrawal itself or do you have to enter it? Can you do a spray record sheet on it? And how much?
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » Just be careful if you are using an app, it must be approved by the Dept for use. I use Kingswood and there are a large number of remedies already entered and you can pick the one that corresponds to your drug. There is also an option to enter a drug they might not have on their database as yet and you have to manually enter the name, type of medicine, how it's used, milk and meat withdrawls, expiry date, batch number and VPA number. Once you enter the quantity you have bought, it automatically reduces the quantity in stock and gives the milk and meat withdrawl for that animal. Also, if an animal calves within a withdrawl period, it will flash up a warning that milk/meat is to be withheld from that animal for so many days yet.
satstheway wrote: » Does it alert for expiry date on bottles? And how much/ year.
Keepgrowing wrote: » Day before, small dab of tail paint very light. Only reason for housing is purely for observation as they graze 30km from home. Never did fixed time.
stretch film wrote: » Scratch cards work best with heifers imo. Just wondering would fixed time save the hassle of housing cos I would have presumed they were unsettled with the change. You can be boards one man trial this May. A van Barn in his previous incarnation was very keen on coiling for synchronizing heifers even suggesting putting the coils back in post Ai which would aid conception (minus the shot of estrumate obviously) and synch repeats
GrasstoMilk wrote: » I think everyone's heifers are different with catching heats. We use kamars and crayons here and find they work well. Although I'd nearly tell by the way s heifer looked at me. If she was bulling or not Tempted to sync all the heifers this year for the day AI starts. Know a man doing it and getting over 80% incalf to first serve
