Sugarbowl wrote: » Why are you moving away from milky type cows
893bet wrote: » Good to see that scheme also being renewed for a third year. Money for Jam this one.https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/mcconalogue-to-launch-new-beep-s-in-next-couple-of-weeks/
Sugarbowl wrote: » Anybody able to rent scales yet through the co-op? The link for scales rental doesn’t work for me through the ICBF website.
High bike wrote: » Can we weigh Autumn born calves now,and Spring calves again in Sept /Oct or do we have to weigh all together
High bike wrote: Can we weigh Autumn born calves now,and Spring calves again in Sept /Oct or do we have to weigh all together
amens wrote: » I see animal health laboratories are now charging €35 instead of €25 for 2021. How much for the other labs?
pure breed wrote: » If a calf dies suddenly a week after being weighed for the scheme, does anyone know if you'll still get paid in this scheme for that cow and calf. Found a dead calf unfortunately this morning in the field, in perfect health and suckling last evening at 8pm.
tanko wrote: That’s a pity, i can’t see why you wouldn’t get paid for weighing him.
hopeso wrote: Was he vaccinated for blackleg?
Dropped the samples for fluke in yesterday for testing (Farmlab). Took an hour to gather 10 samples from the cows in the morning, think they knew what I was at!
Results back last night, all negative. Surprised how quickly they tested & sent out
What dosing did you do for Liver and Rumen fluke this year?
Just took the dung samples this morning and have them posted off. Like all things now a rise in prices.
Will probably go with levafas diamond, haven't used it in the past 4 years. On heavy ground here and the last year's beep dung samples were clear, but cattle killed in February march showed fluke, killed. A winter dose is vital as it's a perfect opportunity to break the fluke cycle. Rotation of produces is key
Used noromectin injection back in June.
Last year I used Leavas diamond which was very hard on the stock so I wasnt inclined to use it again
Levafas is hard as in it will leave them pebble dashing concrete for a few days as they clean out. But it is a sign of it doing the job found the thrive out of them was very good. The only dose cows get here is the winter dose and the odd 1st Calver a few weeks before breeding. My year and halves got their first dose of the year last week and the next will be housing. Only reason was there was a lot of hooses after the dry spell and the wet start of August.
The only downside to Levafas is it only does adult fluke
noromectin wont do anything for Rumen Fluke though
We used Zanil a few years ago and at that time it was the only dose that killed rumen fluke.
