When's calving starting 2022

Hard Knocks · 30-01-2022 2:08pm

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Would it be worth giving the calf a shot of but B?

kollegeknight · 30-01-2022 3:15pm

I gave her a multimin shot. The vet had me told to do it. She is improving daily.

kollegeknight · 30-01-2022 3:17pm

Exactly the same diagnosis from the vet. They are in a Well bedded shed and the plan would be to fire them out into a paddock.

Anto_Meath · 31-01-2022 12:20am

Multivitamin is brilliant for calves that are slow at drink. Thanks for reminding me as I am out of it at the minute & must pick up a bottle of it as it was very hard to get last spring.

Katie 2018 · 31-01-2022 10:27am

Lost calf at weekend left to long to calve cow didn't open fully an must been pushing for while.anyway got foster calf an skinned dead calf cow took til it straight away.how long would I need to keep skin tied on for..

patsy_mccabe · 31-01-2022 12:46pm

Had a 2 year old heifer calve on her own during the night. Had her outside ad she was a bit lame. A tiny gamin Bull. Not due for another 12 days. I was worried about her as she is small enough. Bring her I'm this morning and calf started to go for her teats. He drank her dry. Great when it works put like that.

She is a bit short of milk though.

tanko · 31-01-2022 12:49pm

There’s hardly another one in her?

31-01-2022 12:51pm

I’d say once the cow smells her own milk passing through the calf then you will be ok

patsy_mccabe · 31-01-2022 1:21pm

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Never thought she might have another. She was cleaned when I found her calved and she wasn't that big in the belly all along.

patsy_mccabe · 31-01-2022 1:21pm

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Do you mean to bond to the calf?

31-01-2022 1:52pm

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Yes. I wouldn’t even bother skinning a calf. I’d just get the foster calf to drink the cow twice a day then leave them off after 3 or 4 days

tanko · 31-01-2022 1:53pm

It’s unlikely but with the calf being small and her calving early you never know.

patsy_mccabe · 31-01-2022 1:57pm

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I don't follow. My calf is alive.

whelan2 · 31-01-2022 2:05pm

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There was a post earlier someone had a dead calf, skinned it and put it on another calf

Katie 2018 · 31-01-2022 2:15pm

Cow wouldn't let calf suck atal even in crush just kicking all the time.skinning worked great feeding within 5 minutes.first time doing it

31-01-2022 2:21pm

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Ok. Sometimes it has to be done I suppose

Katie 2018 · 31-01-2022 3:47pm

What would have caused the cow to put all her feeding into calf instead of herself.got thin last couple months an showed with size of calf she had.she couldn't calve it.hex second calver

patsy_mccabe · 31-01-2022 3:58pm

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Genetics usually.

Katie 2018 · 31-01-2022 4:03pm

Would that her offspring a good chance of doing the same.i kept her heifer from last year for a replacement

patsy_mccabe · 31-01-2022 4:31pm

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Have you any idea of the cows ICBF figures? I had a cow here once that always always had a huge calf. From her breeding I could see all hard calving bulls in her pedigree on icbf webpage.

Katie 2018 · 31-01-2022 5:15pm

Must look into that.she calved her first last year no problem atal

whelan2 · 01-02-2022 10:20pm

Had a cow with milk fever there now. Rarely get it in a spring calver, she calved this evening but she took on with a calf that was born at dinner time and went mental when I took the calf away

alan10 · 03-02-2022 10:00am

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Si heifer calved. 4 quarters all blood in milk. Does that do harm to calf? Gave calf powder colostrum for 24 hours (2feeds) and milked out heifer 3 times and she is coming good now.

Diarmuid B · 03-02-2022 11:27am

Had this last year with a couple of our cows, as far as I remember it’s normal for a bit of blood to be in the milk (capillaries burst in the bag I think is what the vet said to us) , usually goes after the first couple of days the calf is drinking👍

Lime Tree Farm · 03-02-2022 1:13pm

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I would have encouraged the calf to drink from the heifer within an hour of birth. I don't think powder colostrum has equivalent antibodies, ( open to correction).

tanko · 03-02-2022 1:45pm

Lovely heifer, maybe i’m wrong but i’d let the calf suck away and wouldn’t milk her out.

john mayo 10 · 03-02-2022 2:10pm

Progressive genonmics LM2388 bull calf born on Wednesday. Had to jack him out. Mother is a SHX

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Anto_Meath · 03-02-2022 5:22pm

Nice calf John, I had 1 of these in 2020, sold her last year at 13 months 405 kgs €1,140, I had a a few of them last year and very happy with them, very quite cattle. I will have a more of them this year hopefully. I found them small at calving but develop quickly in nice shapely cattle. The most of mine would have been out of Zag heifers / cows

john mayo 10 · 03-02-2022 5:45pm

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I have a heifer calf on the ground too out of that bull. They are bigger in size than Zag calves when born

Dunedin · 03-02-2022 7:34pm

In the wars again with two perfectly normal calves but won’t suck their cows. Left one lad 4 days without feeding but couldn’t stick the roaring any more. You’d think he’d be dead. Watched them both constantly and never went near the cow.

Feeding them once a day on a bottle. Spent an hour trying to get them sucking cow this evening but was just vexing myself.

When's calving starting 2022

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