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This is for those of you with better understanding of it than myself! We recently bought in 6 Heifers from England We had them in quarantine for 6 weeks and had the vet test them for Johnes and BVD! There was 1 come back positive for Johnes so she is going back to the sender! They all came...

We are going to bull a batch of our heifers this year at 14/15 Months instead of our usual 26/27 Months! Last year a few of our 14 month old Heifers got in with the bull and we left them to calve to see how it went, ended up having 0 difficulties from them, all calved happily and are all good...

Don't know why but this year we are getting over probably 30% of our calves get Navel Ill. We bed every second day via a bedder like we have done for years, no scrolling on straw thanks to the arable side so they never get mucky mucky! Everything is iodinedat least 2 times sometimes 3 times...

What little ways does everyone use when deciding if they think a calve will come if use the calving jack or if needs C-Sectioned?? Biggest problems we are having this year is calves with average sized head and shoulders yet the hips and arses are too extreme and having problems with hip locking...