pedigree 6 wrote: » It just occurred to me that if you cross cow and how you get chow. But it's basically chew. Cow on. How on. Chew on. Other neighbours use Chew..Chew...Chew.
whelan2 wrote: » Thats just the wexford accent
Dawggone wrote: » Out of interest what word(s) do ye use to call animals? The French use Ta Ta Ta...
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » For calves, suuck, suuck, suuck etc. For cows, how, how, how, how but that's just us round here. My grandmother came from further west, muuuuch further west and that's one of the words that followed her over. For driving cows, sally, sally, sally, the name of a dog dead 5 years now but she's still driving the cows for me:(
blackdog1 wrote: » Got the worst bout of crypto this year. Just lost twin Belgian blues I was dripping for 3 days. Old vet retired and I think I got a 'new' vet disease. Just ordered 5 litres of 30% hydrogen peroxide to disenfect at a rate of 10:1 and gonna rent a steam cleaner. Other than calves spring has been ok animal wise.
blackdog1 wrote: » Interkokask is a very good disinfectant but was googling crypto and according to the US centre for disease control hydrogen peroxide is the most effective and kills 99%. At a 3% solution with a 20 min contact time so I'm gonna try that first.
whelan2 wrote: did you use halocur?
blackdog1 wrote: » Yea . Waste of money. I'm finding that encrypt stuff better. Since I started it only lost the twins because they were weak. Stronger calves seem to survive ok where as before they had to be dripped or died. Lost 5 calves no heifers thank god. Thankfully not all spring calving so only effected 20 calves . I recon the vet brought it in when I had them look at a calf with a touch of Rota.
awaywithyou wrote: » did you use a product called parafor??? halocur will prevent crypto.... but will not cure it.... parafor will help to cure it... its in powder form... three teaspoons into a solution of electrolytes in the middle of the day every day til calf improves or dies..... its shocking expensive stuff... but we find it works well....
whelan2 wrote: » What are the target figures for submission rates?
keep going wrote: » I know teagsc regard this as an important kpi but they can stick it up their h##e.on one man shows it puts fierce pressure on if they are all calving early.10 %per week andfinished in mid to late april would leave you more profit and less pressure all round
mahoney_j wrote: » Compact calving of 50% plus of herd in first 2 weeks of Feb is cruical even more so in a one man show .when u start calving and feeding calves it's as easy with 20/30 than. Handful .a short sharp bust of cows calving lhen let things settle with calving wrapped up by 10/12 April will leave more profit and milk solids
Milked out wrote: » Depending on the year I'd agree with both sides tbh. Timmay and mj coming from.sides where cows can more often than not go out once calving starts whereas when the opposite is true a more relaxed start can help. Delayed the heifer this year till now as found they get put under pressure.freshly calved battling with cows for feed so hopefully the herd will be closer to turnout and give them a better chance
Timmaay wrote: » 100% agreed, you have all of January to get sheds ready and your system in place for a huge burst of calving during Feb, your hopefully well rested and full of energy for the early burst of calving. From early March on this energy will have well drained, you won't want to look at another cow calving again, mistakes and shortcuts can quickly creep in very quickly, sheds are generally at bursting point and you have probably gotten abit sloppy with hygiene etc, combined with bacteria having several weeks to build up, the later part of calving season is by far the biggest risk of it all going tits up! If you find yourself consistent short of grass in the spring then you should be moving out mating start date in my view, instead of trying to spread out the calving season.
atlantic mist wrote: » ya butter fat dropped below 3 here just for one collection, dont think it happened before, got milk recording done one of the days and fat was 3.5 so might have to contact milk manager as im not sure how accurate their test was sent few fr bull off to mart, best made 180 worst made 115 all three weeks old, they made as much as the angus on sale which surprised me a few of ye mentioned a magnet for the cow that i think ate something...need to ask ye a bit more on this do you just run it along the animal or get her to swallow it? if ragworth is their any tonic to give?
