Wildsurfer wrote: » I picked up a Kerbl one last week but still in the box as I'm undecided whether it would be good enough as Ill be heating 200L at a time and it according to website this takes 11 mins to heat 8L to 42degrees. I'm guessing like me your feeding calves before evening milking with milk kept over from morning? Oh and it cost €250.
atlantic mist wrote: » had 3 cows calve with twins all went down after calving in last few days, gave a few bottles of magnesium and calcuim in case, seems to have knocked them all together they are barely going, look like i havent fed them in a year, one of them is now breathing funny anyone else having issues with twins, had vet out couldnt really put there figure on it just twins takes it out of the cow
Timmaay wrote: » No wounder the calves are flying it, it's the same as giving them OAD strength powder the twice a day probably ha? Any scour with them?
freedominacup wrote: » Too late for you now but cows carrying twins usually stand out in dry cow group assuming you haven't scanned. They will not be putting on any condition compared to the rest of the group. As you said your own are in a rag. You can't over feed a cow carrying twins. If we think we have one identified we put them with fresh calvers/winter milkers and the extra feed usually sees them right.
frazzledhome wrote: » Panch Would you ever consider continuing oad for entire season? I'm wondering are there and cost savings? Litres will be down but I wonder will kgs per cow be down proportionally? Benefits are there for breeding but by the looks of things your fertity is on the ball. On calves, I don't think calves thrive properly till that go Oad.
Timmaay wrote: » Surely cow type would dictate this, any sort of br fr will dry herself off come August at a guess. Even with the idea cow I'd be carrying a huge replacement rate for the 1st year or so of going OAD, by the sound of it from reading about lads who went OAD some cows despite how good a milker they are still dry themselves off early and just are not suited to the system. Going the other extreme ha, I know of a chap who was OAD for a few years with pure HOs to try and improve fertility, supposedly there was one cow who'd knock out 45l in the single milking, huge huge bag coming into the parlour, and she'd take all day to milk ha.
Panch18 wrote: » Haha true, rocket fuel for them!! I'm dreading type the s word because as sure as I say no problem we'll get a dose of it!! But so far all good thank god. Calves can handle a fair amount of milk once get going. Been doing the OAD feeding on the heifer calves for a few years now, no problems at all with it and a fair saver on labour
leg wax wrote: » i bought 1 of those milk carts with a pump on it, now that cuts down on work feeding calves, some yoke :P:P. calves are flying been fed whole milk twice a day 6 litres each.3 ltr a time
leg wax wrote: » just on calves ,what are lads doing as feeding and how much for how long ,when do you cut back on milk or whats your routine to final milk cut off , my first pen of calves are flying but should they be eating more meal at 4 weeks old, should i be cutting back a little on milk or just keep them going at 6 ltrs for another 4 weeks
frazzledhome wrote: » Really had a balls of a day. One of those days when I should've stayed in bed. It started with two emails detailing how something I've had in train for some time couldn't be done. The cowardly feckers sent them last night, thinking I'd probably not see them till today and tomorrow being Friday I'd be cooled down. I picked them up at 6am and phoned the two people concerned at 9am outlining how the invoices they're preparing would be ignored till a solution was found. He presto, both called this afternoon with a fix. Lazy feckers. If people would just look for solutions rather than problems their lives and mine would be so much easier. Wtf are these kids learning in college? Rant over
whelan2 wrote: » Had debt collectors ring me last week for money I don't owe. I was beyond annoyed. Then got an email from the company I am so supposed to owe with a credit balance on my bill. Seems some of these companies haven't a clue what is going on. The first thing out of the debt collection agency was would I be paying with visa. I wonder how many people just pay to get them to go away
visatorro wrote: » if your talking about people providing a "professional service" I agree with you 100%. they are gone extremely lazy and seem to require two/three visits/consultations and a few cheques before anything is done.
whelan2 wrote: » Cows are out. Happy days
Milked out wrote: » Ours back in again after last night's rain. Had em out for 2 days ground is soft all the time. Fecking water pipe on way to paddocks is burst somewhere under ground so they had no water yday, the amount of walking they do when thirsty didn't help the paddock, another job to find that and dig it up now
Deepsouthwest wrote: I have no idea what ur on about!
RightTurnClyde wrote: » FYI, for any who hasn't dealt with the banks in a while, ICBF reports are a big player now
