Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

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

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?

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

Lost my first calf last night. 2 days old. She drank fine yesterday evening, looked grand. Dead this morning.

One the trouble stays outside your door it is OK.

Maybe you should have called the vet

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

If a waster advisor made a dig about my financials I wouldn't be long informing his superiors and moving away from him