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Brown Podzol · 24-05-2015 11:58AM

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 · 24-05-2015 12:03PM

trixi2011 wrote: »

What sort of drugs were they using?

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

jaymla627 · 24-05-2015 02:33PM

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 · 24-05-2015 02:40PM

trixi2011 wrote: »

What sort of drugs were they using?

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

Sacrolyte · 24-05-2015 02:50PM

frazzledhome wrote: »

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

I thought ye were on about the 21 St.

dar31 · 24-05-2015 02:55PM

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 · 24-05-2015 03:10PM

is there any milk withdrawal period for bimadine powder

jaymla627 · 24-05-2015 03:17PM

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 · 24-05-2015 03:20PM

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 · 24-05-2015 04:33PM

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 · 24-05-2015 04:52PM

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 · 24-05-2015 05:55PM

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 · 24-05-2015 06:23PM

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

whelan2 · 24-05-2015 06:40PM

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 · 24-05-2015 06:41PM

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 · 24-05-2015 07:51PM

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 · 24-05-2015 08:06PM

wats the craic wrote: »

is there any milk withdrawal period for bimadine powder

our vet recommends 5 days

whelan2 · 25-05-2015 06:02AM

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 · 25-05-2015 03:17PM

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

loveta · 25-05-2015 03:54PM

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 · 25-05-2015 04:20PM

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 · 25-05-2015 06:01PM

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

loveta · 25-05-2015 06:24PM

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 · 25-05-2015 08:25PM

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 · 26-05-2015 06:49AM

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 · 26-05-2015 07:11AM

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 · 26-05-2015 06:29PM

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 · 26-05-2015 06:38PM

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 · 27-05-2015 08:20AM

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 · 27-05-2015 09:54AM

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

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