Martyn
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- Location
- South west
She not looking good at all, her spine has been crushed/ damaged, she went down next to concrete feed bunker and i think stood on by other cows. Vet seen her first thing. Fallen stock on the way. ?
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Spudley
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
So sorry about your cow.
- Location
- North yorks
Hope Sharon gave him a sales pitch for robots with the prize
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
It sounds sh!t but I find very few cows that can’t get up or atleast try straight away have any hope.
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
Iv saved the odd cow over the years, but def lost more than iv saved, i cant stand them being around for long suffering. Shes just left us now.
Homesy
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- Location
- North West Devon
Up until this year I would have agreed with you. I have carried 3 cows out this winter and saved them all. One had a spine damage and was down for over a week then progressed on to shuffling around on her knees and got up and is back in with the milkers to fatten. The other 2 both had ecoli. One was so bad she was scouring blood. Tubed twice with aggers restore and 40 litres of water and both are back with milkers. I think they have died or I have shot every other downer cow I have had the last few years. Patience, TLC, metacam and electrolyte fluids definitely help.
organicguy
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- Location
- North East of the south west
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Sorry, just didn’t want to get some false hopes up. As I eat my lunch looking out the window at the rain/sleet/snow
Cows 'n grass
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- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
I've had a down cow since last weekend, I just rang my tractor driver a minute ago to warn him the the knacker man was on his way and he told me that said down cow had just got up and wondered off.
Knacker man postponed.
Knacker man postponed.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Lacking numbers unfortunately.
Stuart1
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I’m with you on that one. If a cow isn’t up in three days I put her down. They need to be up shortly after going down.
Holsteinfriesian90
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- Location
- Cornwall
Depends if they have done the splits or if they have had a hard calving. If a hard calving I think they need more time.
Out of interest, I am wondering why you have an air tube in what looks like a well vented barn?
- Location
- somerset
extended lacs, esp hols, will reduce number of dairy bulls born, sexed won't help, but if you cannot find a mkt for db's, and may either have to keep them, or pay someone to take and rear them, it will have an effect on the above.
Dropping of cattle at mkt yesterday, some massive hol steers next to me !
- Location
- somerset
the 1 big fault with xbreds, over hols, if they go down, hols don't seem to try as hard to get up, and therefore easier to cope with. Xbreds will try and try, struggle, make the whole job harder, or more likely to go wrong. plus side they don't go down like the hols.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Before the air tube Pneumonia after the the tube i don’t even bother to have resflor in the medicine cupboard
Thanks. We keep being told we should fit a tube to our baby barn but have resisted so far. Far better to hear good things from a practitioner rather than an “expert/consultant”
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
No worries it’s proper lush to watch them run about without a cough to be heard ?
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
would you be able to take some more pictures of the shed please? Pneumonia has nearly ruined us last autumn and we’ve a fair idea why in that the shed was just way too open but I can see where we will end up if I close it down to much.
would you also be willing to share where you got it from and a guide figure?
Cowski
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- Location
- South West
We’ve got on really well in an open drafty shed by making hurdles from stock board to partition the pens, wind goes over the top so the shed is still well ventilated and chilly to work in but if you get down behind the stock boards it’s really pleasant and calves do much better.