Farming Chit Chat

I'd an old ewe that went on her back a few weeks ago. Crows had a go at her, damaged an eye, poked a hole in her cheek, opened the underside of her tail. Took a bit of nursing in the shed, meds, painkillers, etc. to get her back to herself.

Brought in the sheep from the hill then and there was a weak one. So I put them together in the same small "hospital" field. Old ewe started bullying the young one at grub time :rolleyes: Chasing her around the field. Started feeding them separately, old sheep in the pen, young sheep in the field. Sorted

That was a few weeks ago now. Young sheep had twins a couple of days ago, so I let her up with a few others in the good grass. Que old ewe standing forlornly at the gate looking up at them in the good grass.

Foolishly I took pity on her and let her up with them for the company. Worked fine, everyone got along, will help her with milk etc.

This morning disaster struck. There she was panned out on her belly frothing with hypocalcaemia. Only had a 5cc syringe, so a thousand injections later and some massaging and she's able to hold her head up. I put her in s safe spot and fed the sheep.

Back to her again, shivering like hell. Off down to the shed in the Connemara quad (wheelbarrow ). Back to square bloody one, no good deed goes unpunished :pac:

Got up this morn as usual to do a good days work on the farm on 1 of my very rare days of work. looked out in the field to find my charolais bull with his head caught in the ring feeder. 45 mins l8r eventually got the bar cut and was able to release his head after doing 100 laps round the paddock after the bull with the feeder round him. thankfully i was lucky he didnt break his neck. Last time i ever leave a ring feeder in the field with the bull

whelan1 wrote: »

had a bb weanling before stuck in a round feeder at the hips cut the bars with a hacksaw for her to go forward and get stuck at the hips in the other side of the round feeder:(

Saw a strong weanling in late summer get his head completely stuck in a big old kettle and was awful job to get him out of it as he charging everywhere and couldnt see:mad: He went to drink water out of it and in the process tilted it towards himself and handle went behind the ears then threw the head up and it was on him good!!

Reckon I've enough Covexin 8 and Heptevac P in me over the years to cover a lot of ailments :pac:

reilig wrote: »

Neighbour lost his arm from the elbow down a few years ago. He was out fencing and got a thorn in his lower arm. Later that day he went to inject an animal with penicillen and a small bit dropped on his arm. He didn't know he was allergic to it. Within a couple of days, his arm had swelled up to 3 times its size. He spent 6 months in hospital with it and several times they thought he was going to lose the whole arm.

A big strong man with a model farm. Now any farm work that he does has to be with adapted equipment.

You can never be careful enough. The simplest things can change your life forever!!

a man i worked with gos shooting and one day out shooting he got a white thorn in his hand and passed no remarks then 2 weeks later one evening after tea he put his hand down on the table and got a awful pain up his arm . whitethorn thorns are full of poison in august.he ended up with a 20mm hole in his hand.the doctors had to make the hole to get thorn and poison out.then the hole in the hand had to be packed. the hand was never the same.

whelan1 wrote: »

cow was dead this morning , now when vet came out my da was with her . Temp was up at 40 , i always thought that temperature goes down if they have milk fever cow got 4 bottles of calmag and 1 bottle of magnessium , so was well covered there. A raised temp in my opinion is the sign of an infection... just a bit peeved off as cow was a pb angus

bummer, its something different every day unfortunately, had a grand bull calf that i noticed hoping around last week out of the blue, vet reckoned his hip is cracked, cow must have hurt him or something like that, its hard to see him coming right ever..

whelan1 wrote: »

cow was dead this morning , now when vet came out my da was with her . Temp was up at 40 , i always thought that temperature goes down if they have milk fever cow got 4 bottles of calmag and 1 bottle of magnessium , so was well covered there. A raised temp in my opinion is the sign of an infection... just a bit peeved off as cow was a pb angus

sorry to hear that just up from paddocks and found a dead calf, i have change that i had 4 calves really struggling after the ibr and all that goes with it, cow is in calf again but have to wait til sept shes not a great breeder oh what to do