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When's calving starting 2020

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    #272
    squinn2912
    Registered Users Posts: 4,779 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    First springer there now. Nice pull with her. Probably over fat aswell but she came straight off the winterage aswell with no feeding. Wouldn't mind a few more like her.

    Lovely!


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    #273
    farmer2018
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    Anyone having any problems calving when feeding hay or oats?


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    #274
    stanflt
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    farmer2018 wrote: »
    Anyone having any problems calving when feeding hay or oats?

    110 cows calved off hay and minerals- no retained cleanings or milk fever


    What dry cow mineral are you feeding- how’s is bcs


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    #275
    farmer2018
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    stanflt wrote: »
    110 cows calved off hay and minerals- no retained cleanings or milk fever


    What dry cow mineral are you feeding- how’s is bcs

    Yes, I find the hay and rolled oats a great job. Allsure bolus given twice yearly.


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    #276
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Just after having to do a section on a blonde x blue heifer. She had broke to the ch bull last spring and not a hope the calf was coming out the back door. She was fair tight anyway, don't think she'd have managed a limmy either, think she'll be one for the road. Pity because she has a mighty stock of milk.


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    #277
    squinn2912
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Just after having to do a section on a blonde x blue heifer. She had broke to the ch bull last spring and not a hope the calf was coming out the back door. She was fair tight anyway, don't think she'd have managed a limmy either, think she'll be one for the road. Pity because she has a mighty stock of milk.

    Why not try an angus if all goes ok this time? Lot to do yet. We had one like that we thought would calve nothing and she spat out her second calf without any help
    Might as well if you’re keeping her to rear the calf anyhow and if she’s quiet etc as well


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    #278
    grassroot1
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Just after having to do a section on a blonde x blue heifer. She had broke to the ch bull last spring and not a hope the calf was coming out the back door. She was fair tight anyway, don't think she'd have managed a limmy either, think she'll be one for the road. Pity because she has a mighty stock of milk.

    The new set up stood to you this evening so


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    #279
    Limestone Cowboy
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    squinn2912 wrote: »
    Why not try an angus if all goes ok this time? Lot to do yet. We had one like that we thought would calve nothing and she spat out her second calf without any help
    Might as well if you’re keeping her to rear the calf anyhow and if she’s quiet etc as well

    I'll see. If they are only capable of calving an Angus I'd rather something else. She was a funny in that she seemed like she should have been roomy enough when I handled her but was very fatty inside and couldn't open any more. Calf had enough of it anyway. Big swelled head on him by the time we got him out. I'd her shaved for the vet when he came, he didn't handle her at all.


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    #280
    Limestone Cowboy
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    grassroot1 wrote: »
    The new set up stood to you this evening so

    It's very handy.


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    #281
    squinn2912
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    I'll see. If they are only capable of calving an Angus I'd rather something else. She was a funny in that she seemed like she should have been roomy enough when I handled her but was very fatty inside and couldn't open any more. Calf had enough of it anyway. Big swelled head on him by the time we got him out. I'd her shaved for the vet when he came, he didn't handle her at all.

    Ah well you know your own animal best yea. Our wee one was a pt heifer and she got bulled on us young. Ended up with a show calf reserve store champion in the mart. She had two more calves and calves herself but never weighed any more that 550 kgs.


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    #282
    emaherx
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    5 cows calved now and my orphan twin has been adopted by another cow, so at least no more bucket feeding.


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    #283
    squinn2912
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    emaherx wrote: »
    5 cows calved now and my orphan twin has been adopted by another cow, so at least no more bucket feeding.

    Great when that happens. We’d a cow last year that would let one twin suck. He was great at getting a drop when the other twin wouldbsuck but then he died and the oul bitch wouldn’t let him near her. Luckily he was going round the cows and another one we dried off took him on. Strange she’s a giddy, flighty one but she pulled us out of that hole


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    #284
    Limestone Cowboy
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    After a week of getting up 2 or 3 times a night the novelty of calving season wouldn't be long wearing off.


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    #285
    Limestone Cowboy
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    After a week of getting up 2 or 3 times a night the novelty of calving season wouldn't be long wearing off.

    Result.


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    #286
    squinn2912
    Registered Users Posts: 4,779 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Massive Lim bull last night around 2. Hard pull on the jack the cow was over fat. Delighted to get him out I was fretting over her for a while


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    #287
    patsy_mccabe
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Result.

    Was he under pressure? Usually when they're covered in poo like that, they are in distress.

    '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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    #288
    Mooooo
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    50 calved so far, 29 live fr heifers, 1 stillborn fr heifer, 1 aa heifer, a free Martin heifer and 19 bull calves. Lost one cow, last week. An old crossbred Norwegian red I had bought 2 years ago. Was fine in the morning and had her out with the rest and she was dead in the field later whatever happened her no marks in the field around her at all. She was a bit of a scrapper with other cow's so maybe something internally I dunno.
    An over fat heifer in the calving pen now hopefully her condition won't complicate calving


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    #289
    Limestone Cowboy
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Was he under pressure? Usually when they're covered in poo like that, they are in distress.

    We were both under pressure.


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    #290
    charolais0153
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    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    We were both under pressure.

    That charolasi bull is making you fairly well acquainted with the jack :) , just aswell hes throwing good stuff


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    #291
    dohc turbo2
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    I think they are gone dearer than mullinahone now?

    Couldn’t answer that one , I’ve had not one tag of there tags fall off in the 3 years since I changed over


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    #292
    bogman_bass
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    Bad start to calving 2020 here. Found dead pedigree twins down the field this morning.
    Not in the best of humor now


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    #293
    Albert Johnson
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    bogman_bass wrote: »
    Bad start to calving 2020 here. Found dead pedigree twins down the field this morning.
    Not in the best of humor now

    I can't like that but you have my sympathies, hopefully there's better day's to come. The bit of farming I do wouldn't make or break anyone but I had a disaster of a year last year. It was just a mixture of bad luck and freak occurrences although it drove me near demented at the time. Here's hoping for better thing's and maybe this time next year we'll be millionaires!!!


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    #294
    Parishlad
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    bogman_bass wrote: »
    Bad start to calving 2020 here. Found dead pedigree twins down the field this morning.
    Not in the best of humor now

    Feck, that's bad luck!


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    #295
    bogman_bass
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    I have a rule with these things. I’m allowed to be as pissed off as I like for 24 hours and then. Move on.


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    #296
    endainoz
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    bogman_bass wrote: »
    I have a rule with these things. I’m allowed to be as pissed off as I like for 24 hours and then. Move on.

    Rightfully so, sorry to hear about your misfortune. Only good things from now on!


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    #297
    whelan2
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    bogman_bass wrote: »
    Bad start to calving 2020 here. Found dead pedigree twins down the field this morning.
    Not in the best of humor now

    Was she far from her due date. Hate twins


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    #298
    bogman_bass
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    Was she far from her due date. Hate twins

    Due in a week. Was holding on to read the test this morning before bringing her home


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    #299
    Angus2018
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    That time of year I come back to this forum again. 39 cows to calve here starting this weekend. 23 seasoned cows, 8 cows on their second and 8 heifers. All a mix of Angus and Hereford calves. No AI this year.


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    #300
    whelan2
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    Had a calf born on Sunday. I pulled him out. Noticed he had a full belly. Stomach tubed him and yesterday he still had the full belly. He was dead this morning. Must have had a problem with his stomach. Fr bull


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    #301
    Lime Tree Farm
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    Had a calf born on Sunday. I pulled him out. Noticed he had a full belly. Stomach tubed him and yesterday he still had the full belly. He was dead this morning. Must have had a problem with his stomach. Fr bull

    Could be Volvolus. Had one like that, convinced it was caused by a hard pull. Volvulus diagnosed by Lab, Vet said it had nothing to do with hard pull.


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