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Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
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Stw88
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- Northumberland
Our older mule ewes had huge good lambs and ewes were in good fettle. The younger ones have been melting since Xmas, fluked at scanning and been fed well since. Thinking it could be rumen fluke got a hold of them. Lean sheep make hard work. Was just blaming the weather as it’s heavy wet ground that they’ve been on, in the past I’ve fed fodder beet but waste of time this year as wouldn’t be able to get the stuff out to them.
Aspiring Peasants
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- North Pennines
They need grass and some decent sunshine, like everybody elsesWhat’s the collectives thoughts, I’ve got big lambs coming. Had 4 sets of triplets today, all the lambs the size of good twins. But I’m still running abit short of milk in the ewes. Good Haylage, SF carrots, Mollasses & 1lb of 18% nuts each end of the day. If I up the corn anymore I reckon I could hit issues with lamb size. At the moment “touch wood” they’re coming out like shelling peas.
Now they’ve only been in 5 days. Do I hope that being out of the weather on the same diet as they were outside will mean in another couple of days we see an increase in milk production as we stop feeding the weather?
Any relevant thoughts would be interesting.
No, I’m not turning them out to lamb outside
No, I’m not going to cull the lot and start again
No, I’m not buying Easycares
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- Hereford
.....had a calf born yesterday, with a lot of help , both cow and calf down and couldn't stand .
Managed to get cow to stand un-aided very late last night and have hot plenty of colostrum into calf by ' tube bag' . Unfortunately calf still can't stand , he is huge !
Mother not interested in him , how does anyone sort this out , bearing in mind the calf is huge.
Was thinking of making a cradle out of a hessian sack to hold him up for a short while at a time ......or am I best just leaving him for now and just keep moving him !
Managed to get cow to stand un-aided very late last night and have hot plenty of colostrum into calf by ' tube bag' . Unfortunately calf still can't stand , he is huge !
Mother not interested in him , how does anyone sort this out , bearing in mind the calf is huge.
Was thinking of making a cradle out of a hessian sack to hold him up for a short while at a time ......or am I best just leaving him for now and just keep moving him !
I’ve seen a jag of steroids helping them.
livestock 1
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Yellow greasy skins means the feed is good
livestock 1
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Big dosey calves don’t always live
Aspiring Peasants
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- North Pennines
Had one that sounds similar a while ago. Spoke to vet, they said. Calves that experience a difficult or prolonged birth (typically large calves requiring assisted calving) can also end up with acidosis if the umbilical cord is compressed or ruptured prematurely, resulting in inadequate oxygenation.
This explains why it is often “big, dopey calves” that will not suck – their size predisposes them to having a difficult birth, and they are “dopey” as an effect of the acidosis.
Speak to your vet, I think ours was given sodium bicarbonate and it came round. I think it might have been given intravenously
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- Hereford
He just suckled a bottle very well .
He is sharp enough ...just can't stand.
livestock 1
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Should come round watch the cow doesn’t try to get up and sit on it
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
So should be lambing them outside, a bit later on, when the rest of the Easycare flocks do?
Maybe cull the lot and start again with some of those?
- Location
- Yorkshire
Ahhh good it looks settled there.
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- Fife
Truss him up like a BDSM girl
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Shepherd12
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- Shropshire
Same feed here indoors. Plenty of milk.
having said that. The outdoor lambing ewes, which have seen no hard feed at all, are as milky as I’ve ever seen ewes. Only got the tiniest bit of grass but must be some power in it.
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- Yorkshire
livestock 1
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Where’s the wind
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- Fife
What’s the collectives thoughts, I’ve got big lambs coming. Had 4 sets of triplets today, all the lambs the size of good twins. But I’m still running abit short of milk in the ewes. Good Haylage, SF carrots, Mollasses & 1lb of 18% nuts each end of the day. If I up the corn anymore I reckon I could hit issues with lamb size. At the moment “touch wood” they’re coming out like shelling peas.
Now they’ve only been in 5 days. Do I hope that being out of the weather on the same diet as they were outside will mean in another couple of days we see an increase in milk production as we stop feeding the weather?
Any relevant thoughts would be interesting.
No, I’m not turning them out to lamb outside
No, I’m not going to cull the lot and start again
No, I’m not buying Easycares
I have nothing further to add.
- Location
- Yorkshire
Where's the mud?Where’s the wind