- Location
- Cumbria
Once in anyone partnership as I understand, so flog em bring in another partner (spouse, son/daughter etc) then go again. But I’m not an accountant so not sure really.
Sucklers anyone miss them ?
- Thread starter jed
- Start date
It can happen, I AI'd an easy calving shorthorn into a pb LM heifer as an experiment and had to cut her to get him out. I only put ropes onto two others this year for reference!
puntabrava
Member
- Location
- Wiltshire
Wats not to love
I calve down at 2 with limousins and have done for the last 10 years, very little issue with them unless you decide to breed one to a shorthorn!
The cows milk better when calved down at that age. I have very high maternal traits in the herd too by design.
- Location
- Cumbria
We calved lim heifers down at 2 4 years ago, they are now the best cows in the herd, made it to mature weight easy and milk well. We are doing as routine now, too much forage and resource needed calving them at three.
Hi all, got a problem with trespassers not sticking to the footpath in the fields, they think it’s ok to climb over the gates,cut wires and walk in fields nowhere near the footpath. (btw this is all pasture fields) It’s now got to the stage where some big nasty dogs are chasing the suckler cows and their calves. I know that I am legally allowed to shoot the dogs but unfortunately do not own a shotgun so what can I do? I have spoken to many dog owners but they honestly don’t care, what can I legally do? can I stab them instead??
JMTHORNLEY
Member
- Location
- Glossop
Not to my knowledge no. Ask a pal to help you out but wouldn’t try stabbing one tbh
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Its a warm feeling, you should see the size of my new shed hiyWats not to love
- Location
- Cumbria
Fox snare? Well hidden gin trap? Poison? Or just pay a local keeper to drop them (and shoot their dogs) Probably not legal but neither is aggravated trespass...
willie waver
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- Location
- walking in the ayr
all i can say is you're not alone. i'm scunnered at the moment. calves have been finding every different way to die or get ill, cows getting ill, calves not sucking, last year store breaking a leg and the worst of all, this relentless freezing rain turning the place into a quagmire , scunnered
although in a couple of months i'll have forgotten and go through it again next year....
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Similar here. Sickening.
When we had blonde bulls we used to calve their heifers at 2 no problem. Now calve Charolais and Angus heifers at 2 as well. Last year I had 2 Angus bulls running with the heifers. Didn’t touch a calf off of one and the calves have come on really well.
JMTHORNLEY
Member
- Location
- Glossop
Sorry to hear that John. Hope everything picks up soon for you
Timbo
Member
- Location
- Gods County
Hfd X, AAX, Sim X.
That’s got to be a f**king joke
And some are your enemies
- Location
- Fife
If I hadn’t got a gun an I couldn’t stop the dog by other means I’d just run the fecker over!!! Stabbing a ramblers dog to death may come across as a bit over the top, and also may bring attention from the wrong sort of people, like a psychiatrist
There's precedent that stabbing to death a dog in defence of another animal is perfectly legal.
Mother-of-three watches in horror as her American Bulldog is stabbed 23 times by irate pet owner after it had a fight with another dog
Mother of three Daisy Jenkins, of Hampstead, north London, (pictured) cradled her dying American Bulldog following the daylight attack.
I’ve found dairy x mothers to be excellent mothers plenty of milk etc just use a good bull job done
Been very different down here, no rain for months and very warm.
Just come back from searching the woods for the last three to calve, in rain!, everytime I see my first calf heifer it breaks my heart as I had to pull a stillborn from her. On a serious guilt trip as I should have spotted her earlier, beautiful calf out of the best heifer I've ever bred.
Out door calving is great but there is a downside, I've learnt a bitter lesson.