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4 years old TB4 TB tested 21st June Tested clear for IBR, BVD and Lepto in February Nice bull, easy to handle but not halter trained. Produced some nice calves. Lincolnshire

Nope, just motor issues.

They were going off their legs, if you were lucky and caught them wobbling they recovered if you found them down they mostly didn’t get back up. Like they lost all strength in them, eating and bright as buttons but couldn’t stand. Blood test results came back as calcium deficient and a free...

Yeah that’s my thoughts, however it’s the same with BCMS though? You can only move things on and off your own holding? If I wasn’t on the app everyday wouldn’t have even noticed.

This is probably correct, when we first moved we had our ewes out on limestone grassland for the autumn/winter and had massive problems with calcium deficiency once inside - breeding ewes and non breeding replacement ewe lambs. Not had an issue since despite still using field. Assuming they got...

Herdwatch. They just report/ record the movement to/from your holding number so guessing someone at BCMS has made an error somewhere? More think about it more can’t understand how

So we use a cattle management app and it’s great, great way to have information to hand such as checking calf ages in the morning as feeding. Yesterday morning found an extra 20 cattle on my herd list, with an “estimated on movement” for 16th April, which is a little weird as I think I’d notice...

Mix whole raw cows milk with half rate lamb milk powder - halves your powder costs. This is how we did it whilst we had a house cow, do better than on the sheep! It was a Redpoll cow so not sure what milk solids etc but they flew on it and is my preferred rearing method.

Calf milk powder no, the best lambs I ever reared have been fed on raw cows milk mixed with half rate lamb milk powder. Works very well, even better than goat milk. I have been told that in the past they would use half rate lamb milk powder for calves and double rate calf milk powder for lambs...

Best cades I’ve had was cows milk (straight from the “house” cow) mixed with half rate lamb milk powder. They do well on goats milk but don’t let the lambs suck and goats are making good money so probably cheaper to use cow milk and or lamb powder.

We have two daughters, one nearly 4 and one nearly 4 months. Husband works full time -sprayer operator and game keeper, he gets basically no off season. We have cattle and sheep that I look after. If we get the chance we’ll pop out and see daddy at lunchtime or for a couple of runs up the field...

We are in a TB4 area that is now an official TB Hotspot. This means we are now on yearly testing and premovement testing, however we still need to do the standstill for incoming cattle for 60-120 days. We are currently buying in rearing calves from one farm in TB1 area before 42 days and they...

Loads of goat people tell you they can only have Lambivac and anything else is bad for them, mine have whatever the sheep have -Heptavac P+ until this year, now on Ovivac. I just treat them like the sheep, just need some shelter from rain. They will get all the usual sheep things - worms, cocci etc

Goats aren’t waterproof like sheep and need shelter of some sort to be able to get out any rain. I keep my goats with sheep and generally ok as long as I keep them vaccinated and are more susceptible to worms than sheep. There are more experienced goat keepers on here, if/when they see the thread.

Hi did you get sorted?