Farming Chit Chat

Had to laugh at this;

1chippy wrote: »

still cant make my mind up what bull or bulls to put on the cows so going to chance a bit of pick and mix when the ai mans out.

And there's one big advantage of AI. You can pick and mix to your hearts content!
Your next crop of calves will be like a tinkers sh1te..........A mixture of everything:D

was watching a ewe very heavy in lamb for the last few days, no lambs were due here before the 20th january

This morning she had 3 vendeen lambs at foot

there are 3 or more that will lamb within the next couple of days

records show that service date would coincide with the date the ewes were dosed and bolused

as usual no body will own up but one or more of the rams must have been with the ewes for a spell and obviously taken away with a smile on their faces

snowman707 wrote: »

was watching a ewe very heavy in lamb for the last few days, no lambs were due here before the 20th january

This morning she had 3 vendeen lambs at foot

there are 3 or more that will lamb within the next couple of days

records show that service date would coincide with the date the ewes were dosed and bolused

as usual no body will own up but one or more of the rams must have been with the ewes for a spell and obviously taken away with a smile on their faces

Had to laugh. A couple of ewe lambs due to be sold in Jan were mixed in with the ewes ,and a couple of ewes scanned with singles lambed yesterday with twins, one big one small. I couldnt figure why a ewe lamb was getting very agitated around the single pens till i turned her and she had a bag and bloody tail. She is only 10 months old as she was off the last of last years ewe lambs.

How young can ewe lambs go in lamb at anyway

case 5150 wrote: »

must be a week for surprise newborns. all cows dried off here since 21st december, so parlour shut down till 1st february or so i thought, 1st calver just popped this evening with twin heifers from my fathers limousin stock bull, i not back calving till 25th or 26th of jan, she going to be a nuisance round the place for the next month

I know very little about dairy just wondering to myself there ... could you let the 2 calves suck away until you start milking or what will you do with her

porter shark wrote: »

i'm used to dealing with scour in almost every calf born in january, this time it seems to have started at christmas. anyone with same complaint?
i don't know whether to blame the mild weather or the fact that we have had more autumn calvers in shed this year.

Have a few , dont seem weak or anything but gave them tablets anyway. All in cubicles and slats, Passage scraped daily, creep cleaned every two days and new bed of shavings put down. (copied a design of i think reiligs that i seen here)

Just after having to get the neighbour to shoot a cow, what a great start to 2012:(

Bizzum wrote: »

:eek: What happened her?

She was pining with about 2 weeks, she must have shed well over 200kg, no scour or anything either and she wouldnt eat. I would say it was something in the stomach but I could be wrong on that. Had a sim bull do the same thing 3 years ago and another sim bull do the same thing about 10 years ago. The vet was out to the two bulls countless times by to no avail. They reckoned it was something to do with the stomach that time anyway. It looked to be the same thing that happened the cow. Didnt even bother calling the vet for her seen as our vets are the grim reaper, Over the last 6-7 years I have brought 10+ calves to them with different ailments, some more serious than others albeit and they have been out to the bull, a cow with milk fever, a cow with tetany and a section. Not one of them survived!!! Even by chance you would have thought a few would live but no. Anyway I knew the cow was dying there all day, thrown on her side with very laboured breathing so twas the one thing to put her out of her misery rather than to leave her suffering.

dar31 wrote: »

redzerologhlen wrote: »

She was pining with about 2 weeks, she must have shed well over 200kg, no scour or anything either and she wouldnt eat. I would say it was something in the stomach but I could be wrong on that. Had a sim bull do the same thing 3 years ago and another sim bull do the same thing about 10 years ago. The vet was out to the two bulls countless times by to no avail. They reckoned it was something to do with the stomach that time anyway. It looked to be the same thing that happened the cow. Didnt even bother calling the vet for her seen as our vets are the grim reaper, Over the last 6-7 years I have brought 10+ calves to them with different ailments, some more serious than others albeit and they have been out to the bull, a cow with milk fever, a cow with tetany and a section. Not one of them survived!!! Even by chance you would have thought a few would live but no. Anyway I knew the cow was dying there all day, thrown on her side with very laboured breathing so twas the one thing to put her out of her misery rather than to leave her suffering.

magnet boluses, every one should have a few of them around for such cases. mightnt have cured her, but sure as hell wouldnt have make her worse, and only about €3 a pop

I'm sorry about your cow Red, as they say around here " may all the bad luck go with her!"

I've never used magnets but they do seem like a good idea. Would they be more likely to ingest metal objects in pit silage, mixed feeders, sheds etc than outdoor systems Have seen more blockages and deaths from hill cattle eating polythene either feed bags or wrap, and in one case poisoning from licking discarded car batteries on a commonage