All things Dairy

[Martyn]

ttwo Chad daughters. @Holsteinfriesian90

 

[Farmer Keith]

Cows enjoying sun and grass bliss☺and incalf heifers, interesting top worming, we move all our young stock groups onto new pasture on a regular 18-21day basis and we don't worm anything. We do get a little lung worm cough late season only noticed when lots of running like being move, but never treat seam to just use there immunity to get on top View attachment 955846View attachment 955847of it.

Brilliant if you’re making it work, use dectomax 2x here once at turn out and one mid summer, I’d love to stop but saw a mate have an absolute nightmare with it 2 years ago and it makes me nervous, he lost a few and some of what he didn’t lose were absolutely hammered with it. The reason I asked about the cydectin was I was under the impression that the longer acting wormers selected for resistant worms quicker than short acting due to the long tail off of the product so would be interesting to see if @som farmer had noticed anything.

 

[Beef farmer]

Should finish 1st cut today. Gonna be rocket fuel, just shame its only about 50 days worth!

 

[sidjon]

Cows enjoying sun and grass bliss☺and incalf heifers, interesting top worming, we move all our young stock groups onto new pasture on a regular 18-21day basis and we don't worm anything. We do get a little lung worm cough late season only noticed when lots of running like being move, but never treat seam to just use there immunity to get on top View attachment 955846View attachment 955847of it.

We're the same, just keep moving cattle and not wormed for lungworm in probably 30 years now, Fluke that's a different problem, but have moved back to once or twice and year after throwing lots of lime about.

 

[Repeat]

I think we'd all like lungworm resistant animals!

You could vaccinate them
rightly or wrongly we have been huskvacing calves at turnout for years, our thinking is we dont need to worry about worms , we can treat them for that but a lungworm outbreak can damage them for life.

 

[pine_guy]

Should finish 1st cut today. Gonna be rocket fuel, just shame its only about 50 days worth! View attachment 955854

You’ll be jealous of my precipitation coming next week

 

[som farmer]

Any signs of resistance from using a long acting worker every year over nearly a decade?

no, that doesn't mean there won't be though. We jab hfr calves, at 1st turn out only, and they go to the same field, every year ( convenience, can't put bigger stock there ). Both neighbour and myself, agree the calves grow better than the x times worming.
Also keep eye on the dung flies, still plenty of them.

 

[pine_guy]

Brilliant if you’re making it work, use dectomax 2x here once at turn out and one mid summer, I’d love to stop but saw a mate have an absolute nightmare with it 2 years ago and it makes me nervous, he lost a few and some of what he didn’t lose were absolutely hammered with it. The reason I asked about the cydectin was I was under the impression that the longer acting wormers selected for resistant worms quicker than short acting due to the long tail off of the product so would be interesting to see if @som farmer had noticed anything.

Never understood treating at turnout. What are you treating? Anything they had should have been dealt with by treatments at/during housing.

 

[Jdunn55]

Never understood treating at turnout. What are you treating? Anything they had should have been dealt with by treatments at/during housing.

I think that's what deftomax says to do on the bottle, I've gone for a different approach the past couple of years and done a monthly work egg count, have treated mine once out of the past 3 years with dectomax

 

[rusty]

wetted yard with volume washer? Or have you actually had some of that magical stuff out of the sky?!

Just the volume washer from rinsing down the exit race from the parlour. I did put my coat on to fetch the cows for afternoon milking as we had a few spots of rain but need not have bothered as no more came.

 

[rusty]

What’s your protocol for lungworm if using cydectin?

They get Cydectin at turnout for the first season and usually an Ivomec type pour on after housing. Nothing for the second season and no huskvac. I have been doing this for about 5 years after autoworm boluses became uncompetitive in price.

 

[Farmer Keith]

Never understood treating at turnout. What are you treating? Anything they had should have been dealt with by treatments at/during housing.

I’ll have to check but I’m sure you need them done twice 6-8 weeks apart to get lungworm cover, once doesn’t cover it. I only do cattle in their first summer, they never come back in and don’t worm at all for year two. We don’t get fluke here either which is very nice.

 

[Fergieman]

They get Cydectin at turnout for the first season and usually an Ivomec type pour on after housing. Nothing for the second season and no huskvac. I have been doing this for about 5 years after autoworm boluses became uncompetitive in price.

Exactly the same here.

 

[Sparkymark]

Exactly the same here.

Same here except ivomec super injection at housing to kill any fluke.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Long term huskvac here.
Won't have used any routine anthelmintic for decades.

 

[Beef farmer]

1st cut in, hassle free.

 

[Jdunn55]

1st cut in, hassle free. View attachment 955950

Tell your man on the buck rake to smile next time for his photo!

 

[Beef farmer]

Tell your man on the buck rake to smile next time for his photo!

Thats the face you get when 2 brothers have to work on a 200ft x 80ft pad of concrete all day

 

[Rossymons]

Thats the face you get when 2 brothers have to work on a 200ft x 80ft pad of concrete all day

He was probably fed up of his brother constantly getting in the way!

 

[Jdunn55]

Thats the face you get when 2 brothers have to work on a 200ft x 80ft pad of concrete all day

Crikey I'll let him off, mine would be buried at the bottom of the clamp after 5 seconds