Do they pick up on calving?
Do you have the graph from the dry cow before she was dried off. Why did you dry her, was she a bad producer anyway. Do you thing it is that she is getting lazy and loosing her apatite as she gets fatter. I would imagine that the high producing cows would eat more than a poor producer anyway. Just interested to find out.
no but I have the same system and it picked up a cow in trouble calving once. Calf died but i got to the cow in time and she is fine now.
Their was meant to be a update re giving calving alerts this summer still no sign of it as far as I know
We're still waiting for summer
Whatever happened to good stockmen i seen there a new tech to identify lame cows suppose it will text hoof pairer to come to farm
Cow Manager?? from WWS? i watched a video lately of you promoting or talking about another heat detection system you had installed... video is 4/5yrs old so you changed system?
probably heatime, I had that too and was a great system but i prefer changing tag rather than collars.
Tags all started to fail in their 3rd year batteries went/falling out where plastic degraded around inserts, was going to go with their collars again but the above put me off, cow manager actually works out more expensive but it's a subscription monthly model with all tags\routers etc fully guaranteed for the lifetime of the system once you pay your monthly sub, unless you lose tags, but replacement cost is circa 35 Euro a tag, so is manageable
Are the tags not guaranteed for 5 years? After that you have to pay 30 euro to replace and get another 5 yrs guarantee?
Did you buy your system outright, for the 5 years I'm on the starter package plan bought the tags/hardware and pay a monthly fee after that
Paid for the hardware outright (sensors) Tags were 30 euro each and then yearly sub. Must give them a call check . I
I know fellows might roll their eyes to heaven. But I'm short enough of head space for feeding minerals. I was wondering did anyone successfully make their own mineral buckets.
I see online on YouTube, the African lads mix cement in the mollaases. Sounds dodgy but it might. What about boiling
Lad give them a boluses job done.
What drugs are you on
only joking ,why not just run the no.of cows you have no head space trough the par;our with a dust of ration and minerals
Provably too much time on hands watching you tube thats the danger when cows arecdry
See some people use 3/4 of 200 litre plastic barrel and fill up 3/4 again with round stones and then put lumps of rock salt on top of that again. It can be put then anywhere in the house.
I've heard some lads have left it out ad-lib in a few troughs or barrells, and the cows would adjust to what they need themselves.
Short of feed space here bit what I do is just scatter it on the silage twice a day. You can get calsea blocks i think they are called which go on holder's which can be mounted on walls as well
Definitely true about spending too much time on YouTube.
I'm changing my minerals this year, I had a problem with shortage of calcium after calving last year. They got a good bit of mineral last year. Thanks to the advice from you, I started giving them calcium boluses and a pinch of cal/mag and had no losses.
I might let them in the parlor from mid January and and feed them individually.
Anyone else use a bolus, what type?
buy a cheap mineral and offer it ad-lib. They’ll take it if they want it. Usually averages out at the same 5kg of dry cow mineral per cow
grasstomilk did you sign up to the fixed in the end?
No didn’t bother, be hoping we’ll see a 1 or 2c rise fairly soon given how the markets have been the last 2 months
Or multimin injection depending on cost
Tagging the cows for the genotyping scheme thingy, some pain in the hole
The thought of it🤪
Got the threatening letter to have it done for 15th December..
Anyone planning to use the new Crypto vaccine? Will it be available in time?
As a buyer of calves, I would gladly pay an extra few quid if they were done (!).
I did it in the parlour before dried off do the first 2 and last in each round and id pick out the few odd ones after a few days. All done hassle free.
The tagging isnt the problem it's finding the tags, going through a load of boxes. A couple of cows that are here since birth, no tag for them. Wasting time looking for their tag
I had 5 to do …rest have been all done over last few years by hair sample from tail ….tagging large nos of cows a ball ache of a job
Wonder would santa and the elves do the rest of them for me ?
