Having a fair few what I can only describe as tough birth sacks. The lambs are spritely and full term, but have lost several due to the bag not breaking. Have been there when some have been born and seen them thrash about trying to unsuccessfully break the bag and I’ve been able to get to those...
We have blood tested our ewes and have came back with mega high levels of iodine and low levels of selenium vet has advised that we jag all lambs at birth with selenium/vit e ewes have been bolused with mayo 4 in 1! Any other suggestions to get Sel into them before lambing without to much...
We got a lamb which birthed normally on its own, the ewe cleaned it off, it stood up and had milk, same thing next day, yet looked wobbly, now it can’t stand up, it pushes with its back legs, yet the front legs won’t support it, it’s alert, calls for its bottle, yet it can’t stand, has anyone...
Does many of you use cattle boluses on yoyr cows? Looking about doing it to help boost fertility. Red a few bit on the net there and some suggest using boluses containing beta carotene but cant find many products for sale that have it on a quick google search, find it odd that alk trace dont...
Hi. Dry cows are short of protein. Had the same issue last yr and had colostrum issues for a while. Feed rep is suggesting we need at least 2 kgs of dry cow rolls &£473 a ton. Is the best solution? Through management calving issues aren’t a big issue here.
Does anyone know whether having copious amounts of lead shot lying around is harmful to worms? I've eaten plenty of shot embedded in game and vermin in my time, but my guts are rather less abrasive than a worm's. Just pondering this as I wandered over our pastures this pm, in places the...
I have an issue again with what I feel is listeriosis in ewe lambs. Or at least 1 anyway. Little back story. Not last spring but spring 22 I must have lost 10 or 12 ewes to it. A mix of ages, before and after lambing and inside and outside. Last spring didn’t have any at all. Now iv 1 lamb that...
Hi I'm thinking of getting a bottle of multimin for injecting calves when they are born as a precaution.
The only thing is it's a around £100 a bottle of close to it. I've no issues with the price but it's 100ml bottle and it would take me a bit of time going through it.
Does anyone know of...
Hi there we have 15 suckler cows and last year we had quite a few cows calving well over 12 months from last calf at first I put it down to the heat from the summer but realised they still hadn’t got back in calf. Had bull tested he was all good. Scanned cows again in October this time 4 weren’t...
All bloods, forage analysis shows desperately low cobalt and low iodine (selenium and copper ok) what would be the preferred strategy re drenching /bolusing or injecting for breeding ewes and growing/fattening lambs.
No apparent problems with ewes, fertility and fecundity good but lambs stall at...
I have a handful of lambs that I’m trying to finish but they seem to have lost their appetite. I’ve been feeding them creep and recently been able to do this ad-lib but they just don’t seem interested. The field they’re in isn’t brilliant for grass now but they also have access to a shed with...
What is your recommendation for a bolus for growing ewe lambs, containing cobalt etc?
Do boluses work quickly, or is something else recommended (as well as bolus) for a quicker hit?
At a recent Innovative Farmers event a farmer asked the question: which tree species should I choose to provide the best nutritional supplements for my dairy cows? Ideally, there would be a simple table of tree species with their nutritional benefits listed next to them, and this would answer...
We are thinking about changing to bolusing our sucklers rather than using Lifeline and GP mineral buckets. Primarily because in the last 12 months we’ve spent over £1200 on the aforementioned buckets for 40 sucklers, which seems excessive to me? The calving pattern is v drawn out so to get the...
Read a couple of articles on this lately, with supposed all sorts of benefits from dwg to natural worming & even pain relief.... Just wondering if anyone here been doing it long enough to comment on it? We've plenty of willow growing in certain parts of farm, happily harvest some & chuck in to...
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