More to life
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- Somerset
I believe he hasLook good, have you got names for them all yet
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
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jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
Look good, have you got names for them all yet
Swear filter won't allow them
Where did they come from, South Molton?
jimmer
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- East Devon
The loins of the devil woman
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- Northern Ireland
Grass starting to noticably blow in the strong winds today. Don't ask me what it measures! Looks like it's taken a fair bit of nitrogen up in the warmth of Feb. Then again, it never lost the green this winter. March has been slower progress though, with highs of 6-8 and lows of 2-4. Forecast not looking much better. We've had half a months rain already in the first week of March. Calved a couple of girls outside this week on light ground, brought them in this morning, and it's not a pretty sight.
Feels like a record here though to have so much grassland work completed in February. Just have to keep feet off it till the weather settles down again.
Feels like a record here though to have so much grassland work completed in February. Just have to keep feet off it till the weather settles down again.
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
End of day 15 see us upto 50 % calved. A day longer than last yr
139 calved
137 live calves
6 milk fevers ( 5 cows)
3 retained cleansings
Heifer still wearing shackles. Getting much better.
1 cow still be treated for mastitis the other is better.
1 heifer being treated for being smelly.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Builders have finally finished here today.
Feel like we are now ready to start calving..........
Feel like we are now ready to start calving..........
- Location
- South West
Did you buy the full herd,?
How many live cows from 139? Cow/heifer ratio?End of day 15 see us upto 50 % calved. A day longer than last yr
139 calved
137 live calves
6 milk fevers ( 5 cows)
3 retained cleansings
Heifer still wearing shackles. Getting much better.
1 cow still be treated for mastitis the other is better.
1 heifer being treated for being smelly.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Milkcow365
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- Location
- Sw Scotland
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- Pembrokeshire
Has she calved yet
HasthorpeGrange
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- Lincolnshire
Are you not tempted to use sexed on these exceptional cows? How did your heifers do that you reared and calved?
Durry cows
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- Derbyshire
Lots of kiwi cross bull calves?
Milkcow365
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- Location
- Sw Scotland
Yeah calved 3 days ago was just registering her calf
Milkcow365
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- Sw Scotland
Yes I have some sexed in the tank but just don’t want to lose sight of how simple my life is just now.... and I still feel like we could be making a better job of the cows never mind having the extra stress of rearing heifers. The ones I calved in are now all calved again a couple are my top milkers so that does make me wonder, Got 16 heifers in last month av me £1550 all giving over 35l and all less than 26months. There was 1 that was a bitch and kept kicking unit off she got sent back. Most of my heifers are coming from 1 place now and I seem to have a good relationship and they know what I want
25% heifers calved. Not heifers bornLIC sexing it and sending the remnants over here?
Will you calve 50% of your cows in 3 weeks? Reason for asking, as a flying herd I like to bench mark against others, but need to strip out heifers as there not in our figure.