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Greengrass1 · 05-04-2014 08:56PM

f140 wrote: »

nearly blew a fuse this morning when the lorry with meal came and drove on the verge coming up the lane and blew ****e onto the concrete. There is buckets of room for a lorry yet he still managed to drive up on the verge and it was soft so splattered out. Ended up getting a brush to brush it back in.

I know how you feel.
When ever its wet lads always fmdrive up on the grass verge on the entrance and destroy the place

mf240 · 05-04-2014 08:57PM

Tis easy upset ya.

Muckit · 05-04-2014 09:17PM

dzer2 wrote: »

I have a real quiet angus cow here went down this evening to see one of the twins riding her bare back

Poor Agnes!!

Genghis Cant · 05-04-2014 10:04PM

Charliebull wrote: »

Any one ever had a cow go 309 days to CH bull

Just had a PB Charolais heifer calve there a couple of hours ago to the Lim bull THZ after carrying 301 days. Heifer calf.
309 I'd be thinking she repeated on the 3 weeks.

whelan2 · 05-04-2014 10:09PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Just had a PB Charolais heifer calve there a couple of hours ago to the Lim bull THZ after carrying 301 days. Heifer calf.
309 I'd be thinking she repeated on the 3 weeks.

to the charliebull

Genghis Cant · 05-04-2014 10:10PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

Never had such a bad few days before. Found a young cow dead for no apparent reason 2 days ago and had another cow down yesterday after calving and she looks to be going the same way along with a dead calf. Don't think I have ever been so sickened before. Hate to see that lorry pulling up outside the gate

We all get runs like that. Redouble your efforts, do what ya always do and things will soon be back on track.
It's a pain I know but don't let it get in on ya! The tide will turn.

Genghis Cant · 05-04-2014 10:11PM

whelan2 wrote: »

to the charliebull

I'd have to see the offspring to make that call :-) but its a runner!

bbam · 05-04-2014 11:13PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

Never had such a bad few days before. Found a young cow dead for no apparent reason 2 days ago and had another cow down yesterday after calving and she looks to be going the same way along with a dead calf. Don't think I have ever been so sickened before. Hate to see that lorry pulling up outside the gate

Genghis Cant wrote: »

We all get runs like that. Redouble your efforts, do what ya always do and things will soon be back on track.
It's a pain I know but don't let it get in on ya! The tide will turn.

Great advice there..

We all get bad runs and it seems like when it happens just when apparently every neighbour is having the biggest calves and best prices..

Keep plugging away, we all have losses and sometimes they come close together which makes it seem like your doing something wrong..

freedominacup · 06-04-2014 05:26AM

bbam wrote: »

Great advice there..

We all get bad runs and it seems like when it happens just when apparently every neighbour is having the biggest calves and best prices..

Keep plugging away, we all have losses and sometimes they come close together which makes it seem like your doing something wrong..

I had exactly that a month/six weeks ago GSD. Lost two young cows one weekend despite pulling an all nighter on one of them trying to get her sorted. We did as GC said and no losses since (I fcuking jinxed it now), I thought we were heading into a cycle of losses and chasing our tails to cut them down but with a bit of luck and plenty of work we've had nothing since.

sea12 · 06-04-2014 07:50AM

Up at 5.30 to feed baby. Checked the lambing camera and see a lambs head out. Live 10 mind away from home place. Pitch dark driving in the rain wondering am I mad to be at this when all u get from the factory in a few months in 90 per lamb. Anyway got lambs out ok. Fixed a leaking water trough in shed when I was there. Having tae and brown bread now. Back to bed for another bit of Kip .

Reggie. · 06-04-2014 10:10AM

Just home now and stopped and looked into one of the fields. All the grass is waving back at me with the wind where two weeks ago it was bare. Things ain't so bad really

Farmer Pudsey · 06-04-2014 10:47AM

Reggie. wrote: »

Just home now and stopped and looked into one of the fields. All the grass is waving back at me with the wind where two weeks ago it was bare. Things ain't so bad really

Biggest issue for beef drystock farmers is utilisation. last year they would grazze to butt this year cattle out of the shed have five mouths four they put on the ground and one that they eat with.

Muckit · 06-04-2014 12:59PM

More than one way to skin a cat. Keep the cattle in longer and only let out when ground conditions allow. Then take out surplus paddocks for bales to control the grass growth spurt.

I was in agri store in s tipp yesterday and lads were talking about ground being very soft to let stock out. Some of the best land in the country!!

As you say puds pointless letting cattle out and they walking it into the ground! It's a backwards step.

job seeker · 06-04-2014 03:11PM

Hi all. Just wonder whats the name for when, you sign your over heifers for grazing, management and getting in calf and then the crowd brings them back to you in calf after a period of months? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks

frazzledhome · 06-04-2014 03:15PM

job seeker wrote: »

Hi all. Just wonder whats the name for when, you sign your over heifers for grazing, management and getting in calf and then the crowd brings them back to you in calf after a period of months? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks

Contract rearing

job seeker · 06-04-2014 03:20PM

frazzledhome wrote: »

Contract rearing

Thanks a million Frazzled.

I said · 06-04-2014 03:26PM

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

Biggest issue for beef drystock farmers is utilisation. last year they would grazze to butt this year cattle out of the shed have five mouths four they put on the ground and one that they eat with.

Have temp electric up this year will try my best to improve grass utilisation around here

Charliebull · 06-04-2014 03:44PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Just had a PB Charolais heifer calve there a couple of hours ago to the Lim bull THZ after carrying 301 days. Heifer calf.
309 I'd be thinking she repeated on the 3 weeks.

Could not see scan being out by 21 days, actually 303 days today

rushvalley · 06-04-2014 04:40PM

I said wrote: »

Have temp electric up this year will try my best to improve grass utilisation around here

Ive been strip grazing the sucklers here for 3 years now. Change it in the fence in the evening after work. I wouldn't graze any other way now. It makes the cows eat all the grass instead of picking and choosing what they want. I hate seeing lads letting cows roam across a whole field now :mad:

Farrell · 06-04-2014 05:02PM

Charliebull wrote: »

Could not see scan being out by 21 days, actually 303 days today

Allot of cows carrying 300+ days this year

Genghis Cant · 06-04-2014 06:17PM

Charliebull wrote: »

Could not see scan being out by 21 days, actually 303 days today

Experience has taught me to never rule anything out :-)
Is she well sprung up itself?

Greengrass1 · 06-04-2014 06:50PM

Lads have a heifer who's calved 2 weeks. She cleaned or so I thought.
Awful smell coming out of her the last two days.
Never had to wash out as cow before.
What do I need to do?

whelan2 · 06-04-2014 06:55PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Lads have a heifer who's calved 2 weeks. She cleaned or so I thought.
Awful smell coming out of her the last two days.
Never had to wash out as cow before.
What do I need to do?

estrumate. is she sick? i would put her on noroclav or similar. It would be hard to get a washout in to her after 2 weeks

Greengrass1 · 06-04-2014 07:02PM

whelan2 wrote: »

estrumate. is she sick? i would put her on noroclav or similar. It would be hard to get a washout in to her after 2 weeks

Nope not a bother on her. Milking away fine but she really does stink. I can smell her when she's in the collecting yard and I'm in the pit.
I have some dipen here penicillin and streptomycin in it

A cow called Daisy · 06-04-2014 07:07PM

whelan2 wrote: »

i wonder who charliebull is

Wonder is he related to me?

Charliebull · 06-04-2014 07:36PM

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

Wonder is he related to me?

Who your daddy

Charliebull · 06-04-2014 07:37PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Experience has taught me to never rule anything out :-)
Is she well sprung up itself?

She has a decent elder, never springs to big anyway,

Dupont · 06-04-2014 08:34PM

Want to make a bit of hay on a bit of old ground this summer. Mowed it clean last November and just wondering what type fertiliser to put on it. I know good stemy stuff would be the best for hay but its poor ground and would be no height of grass on it if not sowed

td5man · 06-04-2014 08:47PM

Dupont wrote: »

Want to make a bit of hay on a bit of old ground this summer. Mowed it clean last November and just wondering what type fertiliser to put on it. I know good stemy stuff would be the best for hay but its poor ground and would be no height of grass on it if not sowed

3 x 18-6-12????

awaywithyou · 06-04-2014 09:48PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Lads have a heifer who's calved 2 weeks. She cleaned or so I thought.
Awful smell coming out of her the last two days.
Never had to wash out as cow before.
What do I need to do?

Get the vet first thing tomorrow to do a wash out on her... Not too late if you do it tomorrow...least that's what my vet says..!

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