Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Happy Calving 2017
- Thread starter HillLuing
- Start date
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
tagged within 2 minutes of dropping, then I can leave them alone.
With us expanding last few years we have FB around 200 and out of those we have only had to get the guy back to redo 2 that never came up!
All the rest are fully visible and clip the hair off around it when they come inside and that's it
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Thats good, god knows why mine didnt work , the guy has a good rep dose thousands and have seen others have 100% succses mine were a disaster 5 years on the trot and i was sick so just do taggs now.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Yes all black and done in same place as yours.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
I watched for about 2 hours on camera. Got up to the barn before the cow had got up and turned around. Dragged the calf away from the slurry and on to a dry bed and tagged her. I could hardly grip the legs they were so slimyAre your calves born tagged?!
(Oops. Didn't realise I was late to the tagging craic..)
. Mum was cleaning her on the way.
- Location
- Scotland
I watched for about 2 hours on camera. Got up to the barn before the cow had got up and turned around. Dragged the calf away from the slurry and on to a dry bed and tagged her. I could hardly grip the legs they were so slimy
Those cows sound a pleasure to work with. We are only 4 in so far, first 3 were fine but I wasn't allowed anywhere near the 4th this evening!
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
She didn't move much from being right underneath the camera overnight and I wasn't sure the calf had sucked. I put a halter on the cow , she didn't bat an eyelid as I milked a bit of colustrum in to my Speedy Feeder and gave the calf some just in case. Navel still exposed and I wanted to be sure.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
I also tag all my calves in the field on my own , so I depend on kind natured cows
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Do you ring your bull calves while tagging them that soon after birth as well????I watched for about 2 hours on camera. Got up to the barn before the cow had got up and turned around. Dragged the calf away from the slurry and on to a dry bed and tagged her. I could hardly grip the legs they were so slimy
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
It was a heifer. I would ring a bull calf within the first 24 hours in a field as otherwise they take off like greyhounds
njatkinson1
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- Location
- Lake District
First calf of the year! Week old now..
- Location
- our house, Norn Iron
A few calves lately
Lucky, from a cow that went to tb slaughter ( negative), held her back for a week to calve, a nice quiet cow whose blood goes back to the start of cows here back in 95.....hence the name.
Lucky, from a cow that went to tb slaughter ( negative), held her back for a week to calve, a nice quiet cow whose blood goes back to the start of cows here back in 95.....hence the name.