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There are up to 7 dairy threads going at one time. What's your opinion on having a "one stop" dairy thread. I, in no way want to exclude anyone else esoecially Bob Charles we need him to keep us real and you never know we may even convert him! Mods you may have another opinion.

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Brown Podzol

frazzledhome wrote: »

Do you use him?
All we ever got was a big bill, eaten out of house and home, a long list of hormones and phuck all more cows in calf. Lesson learned:(

Our herd was part of the original Moorepark fertility trial in which he was involved. Same experience as yourself.

Brown Podzol

trixi2011 wrote: »

What sort of drugs were they using?

The lot. Receptal, eustrumate, pms, ciders, lugals iodine washout.

jaymla627

Great craic milking here this morning brothers 21st was on so the bed wasn't hit at all, the cows done some looking when they seen a young one in the pit in high heels that wanted to see the cows being milked she ended up getting destroyed with muck haha

frazzledhome

trixi2011 wrote: »

What sort of drugs were they using?

Coke mostly bit of grass to take the edge off!!!

Sacrolyte

frazzledhome wrote: »

Coke mostly bit of grass to take the edge off!!!

I thought ye were on about the 21 St.

dar31

stretch film wrote: »

Did you sort the mower out dar

Yea ment to update.
Kehoe's sent up a lad and he changed the off set position on the 2nd and 5th discs working perfect now, 30 min job, less if you had to do it a few times.

wats the craic

is there any milk withdrawal period for bimadine powder

jaymla627

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Dan the Scan.

http://www.cowsdna.com/

Was over in the uk last year with a group of farmers and heard very bad reports about his staff, in one case incalf cows where pd as not incalf dates where way out and sexes wrong, Ryan then scanned said group of cows himself when farmer knew something was up, got charged the second time around full rate aswell 4 lads in the group who where using had switched over to other lads

whelan2

wats the craic wrote: »

is there any milk withdrawal period for bimadine powder

looked it up there on google, says 28 day meat withdrawal no mention of milk, we would normally keep milk for a day after using the powders

Sacrolyte

wats the craic wrote: »

is there any milk withdrawal period for bimadine powder

Yes. Not sure how any days though. Sample would fail after couple of days from memory.

awaywithyou

jaymla627 wrote: »

Was over in the uk last year with a group of farmers and heard very bad reports about his staff, in one case incalf cows where pd as not incalf dates where way out and sexes wrong, Ryan then scanned said group of cows himself when farmer knew something was up, got charged the second time around full rate aswell 4 lads in the group who where using had switched over to other lads

Jesus lad have you anything good to say about anyone...

Dan Ryan is top notch and I wouldn't let anyone near the cows to scan em only him

jaymla627

awaywithyou wrote: »

Jesus lad have you anything good to say about anyone...

Dan Ryan is top notch and I wouldn't let anyone near the cows to scan em only him

Wasn't saying otherwise was one of his employees that made a mess if your man's scan

Greengrass1

His videos on Facebook are good I must say
Great insight into good operators and few tips aswelk

whelan2

cow with bad mastitis this evening, not eating, waiting on vet. Was fine this morning. First time getting the vet to a mastitis case in years

whelan2

awaywithyou wrote: »

Jesus lad have you anything good to say about anyone...

Dan Ryan is top notch and I wouldn't let anyone near the cows to scan em only him

thats the point though he himself is good at scanning, there are alot of other scanning operators that shouldnt be scanning at all

trixi2011

whelan2 wrote: »

cow with bad mastitis this evening, not eating, waiting on vet. Was fine this morning. First time getting the vet to a mastitis case in years

Had 2 in the last few weeks here as well very hard quarters not curing even with a course of cobacton tubes and injection ,

orm0nd

wats the craic wrote: »

is there any milk withdrawal period for bimadine powder

our vet recommends 5 days

whelan2

trixi2011 wrote: »

Had 2 in the last few weeks here as well very hard quarters not curing even with a course of cobacton tubes and injection ,

strigged her out there now, very bloody stuff in the quarter, swelling gone down, on synulox and marbocyl for a few days, amazed how quick it went from milk to like tea within an hour

whelan2

its blood thats coming in cows quarter now when i strig her out , do i continue drawing it?

loveta

Using dan since 02 had a couple of guys come in when he could n scan they were at best mediocre and some were ryans own staff i only use dan himself now i honestly don't think there is a better scanner in the country but with large no.s at a fiver a head plus vat he is well paid and can well afford to feed himself out of it

frazzledhome

loveta wrote: »

Using dan since 02 had a couple of guys come in when he could n scan they were at best mediocre and some were ryans own staff i only use dan himself now i honestly don't think there is a better scanner in the country but with large no.s at a fiver a head plus vat he is well paid and can well afford to feed himself out of it

Do you do or breed scan or is it just preg confirmation.

atlantic mist

anyone start usin the preg diagnostic from milk recording, fella we hav does it all by hand no scanner

loveta

frazzledhome wrote: »

Do you do or breed scan or is it just preg confirmation.[/QUO
Both ,but if i could get a good scanner local i would use them for preg scan.got badly burned with a supposed good scan guy ffew years back got times well wrong and we milk year round f ing mess cows calving only 4-5 weeks dry

Timmaay

loveta wrote: »

Both ,but if i could get a good scanner local i would use them for preg scan.got badly burned with a supposed good scan guy ffew years back got times well wrong and we milk year round f ing mess cows calving only 4-5 weeks dry

Too many wrong dates here also, but the opposite, to long dry, esp the later calvers who actually incalf to the bull and not AI. Any future scanning I do I will not be telling the scanner my expected date, but instead be letting him do the work.

RightTurnClyde

1st calver hanging around water tank after milking last night. Very listless and very cold. She had come in and Milked fine in Parlour. Relief guy left her in paddock beside Parlour, by the time he had come back from locking in the cows she had dropped dead. Any ideas what this could be? Sickner

Milked out

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

1st calver hanging around water tank after milking last night. Very listless and very cold. She had come in and Milked fine in Parlour. Relief guy left her in paddock beside Parlour, by the time he had come back from locking in the cows she had dropped dead. Any ideas what this could be? Sickner

Sickner is right, guess a post mortem would be the only way of finding out for sure? Did he notice urine red or anything? Had a cow with blood in urine here 2 weeks back had to give her a transfusion but she was very listless also. The vet here checks under the eyelids to seè if tgey a4e very pale to check for bleeding i think. She could have ingested something as well

Henwin

hiya, we have 2 calfves bout 6 weeks old, the jersey bull is constantly drinking urine from the aa bulls navel, he follows him everywhere, is there anything that can be done to stop him doing this apart from moving them into separate paddocks.

Kovu

Sounds like he needs some salt Henwin. Usually see it here if we don't have salt blocks with the cows. Even table salt thrown in a container of some sort for him to lick up would do the job and see if that stops him looking for it elsewhere.

Greengrass1

trailer yoked up here to bring a pure tramp if a cow to factory. had her separated out fir ai (repeat). Soon as she was in pen she jumped the gate got stuck on it half way and dragged whole lot down on me. split back of head open off block wall Aswell as chip my elbow I reckon.
Went for us last yr when she calved as a heifer and just charges through any cow when she's running into parlour.
not a nice animal and I had a close call this morning

Timmaay

**** that, lucky escape. No concussion or anything?