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Farming Chit Chat III

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  • #2972
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    mf240 wrote: »
    Ya I wouldn't worry either,

    Is it mostly in the autumn herd you get it? Were they out?
    yes, they where in and out , had them calving in paddock firstly and last few calved inside


  • #2973
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,900 ✭✭✭mf240


    Ya they seem to get it more when they have any grass at all. At least thats what I find.


  • #2974
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    quadboy wrote: »
    bloody hell backin in to a bale this morning with the spike and young dog who has a habbit of running around the tractor ran behind just as i got to the bale, i think ye know the rest:(

    Thats an awful dose quadboy . Its no harm to stop often and let them know they cant be chasing cars or tractors when they're young to break that habit .


  • #2975
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    quadboy wrote: »
    bloody hell backin in to a bale this morning with the spike and young dog who has a habbit of running around the tractor ran behind just as i got to the bale, i think ye know the rest:(

    Bad luck me own fella is a hoor for going in under the bales as I drop them have to get out of of tractor make sure he is away from it.


  • #2976
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    moy83 wrote: »
    Thats an awful dose quadboy . Its no harm to stop often and let them know they cant be chasing cars or tractors when they're young to break that habit .

    yeah and its always the same cars and tractors they chase, they dont go near the newer quieter tractors, went right threw her too poor thing


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  • #2977
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    quadboy wrote: »
    yeah and its always the same cars and tractors they chase, they dont go near the newer quieter tractors, went right threw her too poor thing

    :eek: did you spike her or run over her


  • #2978
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    hugo29 wrote: »
    :eek: did you spike her or run over her

    spike, i had it lined up backin away and just looked away for a sec an she ran behind, shud have kept the spike higher


  • #2979
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    quadboy wrote: »
    spike, i had it lined up backin away and just looked away for a sec an she ran behind, shud have kept the spike higher
    things like that send a shiver down my spine, imagine if it was a kid


  • #2980
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    whelan1 wrote: »
    things like that send a shiver down my spine, imagine if it was a kid

    yeah anytime theres a young one around i make sure they go into the hse if im doing anything with tractor, think ill be using the bale handler in future


  • #2981
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭dzer2


    quadboy wrote: »
    yeah anytime theres a young one around i make sure they go into the hse if im doing anything with tractor, think ill be using the bale handler in future

    Thats tough Muckit. I normally make sure the young ones are on the tractor with me.


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  • #2982
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    mf240 wrote: »
    It's more often a case of too much calcium in the pre calving diet than a lack of anything. Also fleshy and older cows are more at risk.

    correct, I have gotten milk fever in a dry heifer with oversupply of calcium that I was using to counter act another problem. If I sorted the diet first It would never have happened.

    So is 15% around normal for autumn cows to go down with milk fever?:eek:

    I can never remember it being a problem in my younger years working on a big dairy farm


  • #2983
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    bob charles wrote: »
    correct, I have gotten milk fever in a dry heifer with oversupply of calcium that I was using to counter act another problem. If I sorted the diet first It would never have happened.

    So is 15% around normal for autumn cows to go down with milk fever?:eek:

    I can never remember it being a problem in my younger years working on a big dairy farm

    Would the cows have been as milky back then ?


  • #2984
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    moy83 wrote: »
    Would the cows have been as milky back then ?

    top cows were around 50kgs a day, so they weren't too bad :)


  • #2985
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    quadboy wrote: »
    yeah and its always the same cars and tractors they chase, they dont go near the newer quieter tractors, went right threw her too poor thing

    Oh nasty, remember a man crossing his dog while reversing a trailer years ago, he was gutted and terrified telling the wife


  • #2986
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    bob charles wrote: »
    top cows were around 50kgs a day, so they weren't too bad :)
    I thought back in your younger days it might have been shorthorns or something like them that you might have been working with :P


  • #2987
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    moy83 wrote: »
    I thought back in your younger days it might have been shorthorns or something like them that you might have been working with :P

    they were all legs but no shorthorns


  • #2988
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    Oh nasty, remember a man crossing his dog while reversing a trailer years ago, he was gutted and terrified telling the wife

    Faulty brakes ............


  • #2989
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    How about no brakes on the trailer, I remember hearing sound of the bale trailer hitting the ground after rolling over something ( you all know that sound) and thought to myself AH S***


  • #2990
    Dozer1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Dozer1


    Was dosing the cattle yesterday and noticed that two heifers around two year old had alot of teeth missing one was worse than the other. They were some I'd bought lately. Any reason or has anyone seen it before? Both are in good condition


  • #2991
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    Feeding out silage to cows here, and a je cow thats only calved ten days is mad bulling. Never seen it before that early


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  • #2992
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Dozer1 wrote: »
    Was dosing the cattle yesterday and noticed that two heifers around two year old had alot of teeth missing one was worse than the other. They were some I'd bought lately. Any reason or has anyone seen it before? Both are in good condition

    Same as children, they're getting their adult teeth.
    Calves have 20 temporary teeth which are lost fully by 3 1/2 years or so and 32 permanent teeth are in place then.
    jersey101 wrote: »
    Feeding out silage to cows here, and a je cow thats only calved ten days is mad bulling. Never seen it before that early

    Sl*t :D


  • #2993
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    jersey101 wrote: »
    Feeding out silage to cows here, and a je cow thats only calved ten days is mad bulling. Never seen it before that early
    had one the same this year with the autumn calvers. she repeated and then again a couple of days ago. Hopefully she holds this time or she'll be getting the hook.


  • #2994
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,459 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    quadboy wrote: »
    bloody hell backin in to a bale this morning with the spike and young dog who has a habbit of running around the tractor ran behind just as i got to the bale, i think ye know the rest:(
    That's a really upsetting thing to happen Quadboy. I ran over our old dog with the car(she was ok in the end) and I was really cut up about it.

    Did it take long for him to die?


  • #2995
    Brown Podzol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Brown Podzol


    bob charles wrote: »
    Whelan you always seem to have cows down, surely its better to prevent the problem with nutrition than fire brigade action

    It seems that soils, silage and grass are much higher in k now which is a major cause of milk fever. A couple of kg's of nuts with calmag for two weeks before calving will should correct the problem.

    http://gainfeeds.com/ruminant/download/Nutritional_Updates_Week_40.pdf


  • #2996
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    1chippy wrote: »
    had one the same this year with the autumn calvers. she repeated and then again a couple of days ago. Hopefully she holds this time or she'll be getting the hook.

    trying to convince my father still to wait till dec to start serving. So well see in another 3 weeks


  • #2997
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    jersey101 wrote: »
    trying to convince my father still to wait till dec to start serving. So well see in another 3 weeks

    Squeeze the bull ! He will be waiting till dec then


  • #2998
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    moy83 wrote: »
    Squeeze the bull ! He will be waiting till dec then

    if i had a bull id say id be getting fair kicks :D actually now tgat i think of it ill never be using a berduzo here again. No more bull calves :D


  • #2999
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    That's a really upsetting thing to happen Quadboy. I ran over our old dog with the car(she was ok in the end) and I was really cut up about it.

    Did it take long for him to die?
    called neighbour who sorted it, there wasn't a lot of blood loss but didn't want to go pulling him out of it, went threw near the two shoulders


  • #3000
    ABlur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 837 ✭✭✭ABlur


    Adams Farm Countryfile BBC1 is in Bantry now.


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  • #3001
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    ABlur wrote: »
    Adams Farm Countryfile BBC1 is in Bantry now.

    That was my neighbour there rounding up the dexters with his dogs


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