There’s what’s printed or said and then …..there’s stuff they forgot to mention or just left out to make a good story …there was a time when I’d be scratching my head wondering where I was going wrong …thankfully it has passed
The stuff they forget to mention is often what's keeping the show on the road: family labour, wife doing the paperwork, students in spring, high direct payments from when daddy was a suckler farmer 20 years ago, good ground, etc.
The farmer's own knowledge of what does and what doesn't work on his/her farm is also what keeps the show going. That knowledge is rarely appreciated by officialdom.
Feckin snowing!
They’ll be calling any minute now to pull cars out of ditches…should I tell them to go and learn where their food comes from?
I gota ask dawg have you been under a stone the past few months.arent all you neighbours out ploughing the streets.have you expressed this love of officialdom and regulation on French social media.you gave me a laugh this morning when I have little else to laugh about
Got the equivalent of 350 euro a ton for a artic load of winter barley straw last night, it's mad stuff it's worth nearly twice a ton of dried barley
land availability is the biggest difference between us and Europe aswell as the price. If I could get a couple thousand ac at 100€ an acre or less be no bother operate a European type system
nice block of 70 ac not for from your home place for sale, im sure your brothers will step back and let a local farmer buy it ?
Lost my first calf last night. 2 days old. She drank fine yesterday evening, looked grand. Dead this morning.
Lost my first calf too. Fr heifer 5 or 6 weeks old. I'd say she ate too many nuts from the adlib feeder. She was thrown out when I found her. Stuck 2 needles in her and left out gas. She wasn't very gassy but she was very very weak. Gave her some liquid paraffin. She died a few hours later. Maybe I could have put washing up liquid into her stomach to stop frothing, I don't know. Tried my best but lost her. Maybe she was gone too far or maybe it was something else. She drank from the calf feeder at lunchtime, dead at bedtime. There didn't seem to be that much pressure on her stomach.
One the trouble stays outside your door it is OK.
Could be something else too, like pasteurella, or maybe banged her head off a gate, she might just have gassed up if she was thrown down?
It's hard to know, but while keeping things in perspective, it's still a blow to lose one when there's an effort put in to minding them.
has anyone here ever bought one of these before? I was wondering does it really stop the birds from stealing all the ration? Very expensive bath for them if it didn’t keep the birds out
Yes we have one. Keeps the birds out
Maybe you should have called the vet
We have and their fine but the jfc one is handier in a shed.we made up a little stand for our and use it mainly the first month or 6 weeks at grass
was the calf kicking out and standing up and sitting down, we had that before and the vet said it was collick, shot in the vien shorted him out, happens with a high intake of meal. we have since removed the adlib feeders when they get too greedy and fed them twice a day.
No. She was out flat. Maybe it was something other than gas. I've had bloat before and it's always fine once you leave out gas. I stuck in a stomach tube and there was nothing coming out.
Always treat for viral pneumonia too. They can get sick and lie on the wrong side and it looks like bloat and it isn't. Tested a calf with a quick scour test today and came back positive for rota. From looking at her you'd swear it was pneumonia. In single pen never in a group so hopefully it's only 1. Advantages winter calving is when you get an outbreak it's generally 1 to 4 calves effected until you get ontop of it.
What do you use to treat rota What symptoms did the calf present with
normally give them a dose of liquid parafin to clear the gut then stomach tube 2 litres of vitalife sachets with a shot of precision microbes. 1 or 2 feeds . then onto milk replacer with precision microbes and regular electrolyte in between feeds.
That’s has a lad said that to me last year regarding a scoured calf ….60 ml liquid parafin down throat to as you say clear stomach ….half hour later 3 litres of warm water mixed with reviva and 60 ml of precision microbes ….works v well
Was onto advisor today regarding claiming a grant that he’s being doing since January, last problem was he ordered the wrong folio from land registry, said to him this is ongoing far too long and I got wrong folio maps a month ago and still not sorted, got all Ancy with me saying I was unfair saying that I should apologize and went on to say it’s small money that I must have a cash flow problem, talk about trying to make someone feel small, very unprofessional and ignorant I thought
You can order the folio yourself
I know, he ordered it and I paid for it, I wasn’t paying for another one when it was his mistake so he was meant to recify that, no issue really we all make mistakes but just lack of any action from him on it was annoying me really
You can look up the folio yourself here just proceed as a guest: https://www.landdirect.ie/
I’d be looking for a new advisor it’s a fairly basic task for them not to be able to look up the address for the folio and talk about a prick saying that to you for his own f up.
Trick is getting them drinking then constant fluids for 3 days ie 4 feeds. Give them a shot of dex or metecam during treatment I find works well too
Ah yeah I’ve done it before, he said he’d do it and I paid over the phone, got the wrong ones a month ago, then he was getting onto somebody in that land registry to change them and whatnot, but the shear ignorance to try insinuate I had a cash flow problem as I was getting onto him about getting this money back took me back a bit tbh, if you were struggling finically buying meal/silage etc and the weather atm ya wouldn’t want that threw in your face
No not completely, will still buy them but I be take into account more the amount of smaller ones you end up with.
I am picking up plainer type weanlings and younger stores. It will drop stocking rate but I hoping to improve overall margin.
Is the Reviva the same stuff you give to cows after calving or something different?
If a waster advisor made a dig about my financials I wouldn't be long informing his superiors and moving away from him
Cow had twins...she had a HE bull and an AA heifer. (HE bull running with the cows and AI'd as well with an angus straw.)
Are we still in the same territory as the standard "heifer, twin to a bull" being a freemartin, or can we have a different outcome here considering different sires?
