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Farming Chit Chat sallies Fourth

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  • #3572
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    galwaylad98 wrote: »
    Hi, first time on this.

    I went out this morning looking at the cows and calves in the field, to see a nice black limousine heifer calf 3 months old dead.
    Any ideas???

    Yeah, I'd say you're right..... She's dead!
    :-)

    Welcome to boards. I'm sure someone more helpful will be along soon :-)


  • #3573
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Have a heifer and her eye is sunk in one side and eye lid drupping over it and her ear is fallen on one side too.
    She's Eaton her cud but drooling.
    Doesn't look to healthy

    Sounds like she's having a stroke. Do cattle get them? ?


  • #3574
    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    mf240 wrote: »
    Don't let it get you down Greengrass.

    We all lose a few. Do the very best you can for them and fcuk it after that.

    All I can say is it's better to happen in the yard than the house. While we all lose a few from time to time at the end of the day there only an asset and are replaceable.
    Lose a loved one as I know many on here myself included have and they can't be replaced.


  • #3575
    galwaylad98
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3 ✭galwaylad98


    How much would a PM be??
    (Bit late shes gone to the knackery)


  • #3576
    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    galwaylad98 wrote: »
    Hi, first time on this.

    I went out this morning looking at the cows and calves in the field, to see a nice black limousine heifer calf 3 months old dead.
    Any ideas???

    Could be anything but first guess would be blackleg or something similar if she's not vaccinated.


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  • #3577
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,718 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    galwaylad98 wrote: »
    How much would a PM be??
    (Bit late shes gone to the knackery)
    you could ring knackery in morning and ask them to have a look at her to see if they see anything unusual, if they havent cut her up already


  • #3578
    ABlur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭ABlur


    galwaylad98 wrote: »
    Hi, first time on this.

    I went out this morning looking at the cows and calves in the field, to see a nice black limousine heifer calf 3 months old dead.
    Any ideas???

    Would it be blackleg?

    Usual symptom is death. Other symptoms from a Google search, the knackery will tell you if its blackleg:

    'Characteristic swellings develop in the hip, shoulder, chest, back, neck or elsewhere. First the swelling is small, hot and painful. As the disease progresses, the swelling enlarges and becomes spongy and gaseous. If you press the swelling, gas can be felt under the skin. The animal usually dies in 12 to 48 hours. In most cases the animal is found dead without being previously observed sick.'


  • #3579
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    whelan2 wrote: »
    you could ring knackery in morning and ask them to have a look at her to see if they see anything unusual, if they havent cut her up already

    Our own lads are pretty good in this regard, they're looking as so many I suppose!


  • #3580
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    The dream woman for ye sheep lads - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2606033/Talk-tending-flock-Female-farmer-juggles-looking-2000-acres-1000-sheep-raising-SEVEN-children-remote-deserted-village.html

    Fair difference in the ages too!


  • #3581
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,424 ✭✭✭tanko


    What is the youngest age at which calves can be vaccinated against blackleg?


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  • #3582
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Ugggggh bad toothache tonight. Defo may hit the dentist asap!


  • #3583
    EpicPothole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭EpicPothole


    Met a boardie today in England. He was in an awful state. Dont know why but i thought he looked like a irish lad that had a hard night on the beer. Said he posts now and Farming & Forestry.


  • #3584
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,618 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Yeah, I'd say you're right..... She's dead!
    :-)

    Welcome to boards. I'm sure someone more helpful will be along soon :-)

    Your a great help :D


  • #3585
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,618 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    EpicPothole wrote: »
    Met a boardie today in England. He was in an awful state. Dont know why but i thought he looked like a irish lad that had a hard night on the beer. Said he posts now and Farming & Forestry.

    Hardly darragh_haven


  • #3586
    ABlur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭ABlur


    tanko wrote: »
    What is the youngest age at which calves can be vaccinated against blackleg?

    From the Covexin 8 website:

    'Calves Dosage:
    Vaccinated under 3 months of age should be revaccinated at weaning or 4 to 6 months.

    http://www.osmonds.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=322:covexin-8&catid=42:product&Itemid=412


  • #3587
    ZETOR_IS_BETTER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭ZETOR_IS_BETTER


    tanko wrote: »
    What is the youngest age at which calves can be vaccinated against blackleg?

    10 days
    and 6 weeks later if land is prone to blackleg


  • #3588
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Your a great help :D

    Oh, I have my moments! :-)


  • #3589
    EpicPothole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭EpicPothole


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Hardly darragh_haven

    Eh. Yeah. Howd you know?


  • #3590
    jt65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭jt65


    galwaylad98 wrote: »
    How much would a PM be??
    (Bit late shes gone to the knackery)


    before it was actually cheaper than knackery at your local vet lab

    however I think now you have to pay for the disposal charge when you deliver the carcass & your vet will pass on the lab charges, so could expensive

    think there is info on the dept website , can't find it just now


  • #3591
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Ugggggh bad toothache tonight. Defo may hit the dentist asap!
    Get him to look at the tooth first. :)


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  • #3592
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    EpicPothole wrote: »
    Eh. Yeah. Howd you know?

    It's Reggies job to keep an eye on some scoundrels ;)
    Last we seen of darragh here he was sitting at Cork airport though.


  • #3593
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    The dream woman for ye sheep lads - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2606033/Talk-tending-flock-Female-farmer-juggles-looking-2000-acres-1000-sheep-raising-SEVEN-children-remote-deserted-village.html

    Fair difference in the ages too!

    She's on Twitter @AmandaOwen8


  • #3594
    EpicPothole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭EpicPothole


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    It's Reggies job to keep an eye on some scoundrels ;)
    Last we seen of darragh here he was sitting at Cork airport though.

    Jays us you couldn't make a move with out being found out eh. He had some story about last night out in Birmingham. If he's over there for work, he has some life.


  • #3595
    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    She's on Twitter @AmandaOwen8

    Taking an interest con. I thought you were engaged. I'm not sure if she'd be what I'm after myself. She's probably brilliant with the sheep but there's more to life than farming.


  • #3596
    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    EpicPothole wrote: »
    Jays us you couldn't make a move with out being found out eh. He had some story about last night out in Birmingham. If he's over there for work, he has some life.

    Was he on some street full of strip clubs last night.


  • #3597
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,919 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Cleaning up the veg patch today and got seriously sun burnt on top....had to dose it with sudacream to the extent I now look like a cadburys cream egg:(


  • #3598
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Just arrived in Kk with heifers and bullocks, waiting and arseing around till ya sell them is the worst part of the day here


  • #3599
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,618 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    simx wrote: »
    Just arrived in Kk with heifers and bullocks, waiting and arseing around till ya sell them is the worst part of the day here

    Get a good brekkie inta ya


  • #3600
    Taltos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,830 ✭✭✭✭Taltos


    Ignore this post, clearly both not enough coffee and chocolate this morning. Stepping back from the computer now in search of both of the above...


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  • #3601
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,718 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Get a good brekkie inta ya
    i just had a coffee and a yummy chocolate brownie would that count


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