Martyn
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- Location
- South west
You could of come in for a cup tea!Just where I parked on Thursday morning, cattle all looked well!
Couple of yours left!
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
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Couple of yours left!
organicguy
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- Location
- North East of the south west
Thought you were on holiday or we would, or did mine calving too early stop you.
You will be finished before mine! Yours weren't supposed to start until yesterday! Staff!
Martyn
Member
- Location
- South west
L taken the girls to wales, to much happening to be away!
We have been using sexed semen for years so mainly get Heifer twins (had 1 set of triplets which are all milking as well), but we have had 5 sets of freemartins over the years and 3 of the 5 heifer calves have bred. I do wonder if crossbreds are more likely to breed.What do most people do with fremartins, usually I’ve always put them into our beef group, we have had 6 sets now in the last few days,I’m sure I read about a member saying most are actually fertile?
- Location
- God's side of the border.
Vet told us once that a cow might be carrying twins, slip the bull calf, have a live heifer and that could be a freemartin.
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
Yeah been told the same. We just use them for freezer beef
Grassman247
Member
Nice evening for checking the spring born calves
Dead Rabbits
Member
- Location
- 'Merica
I’ve got some pretty good looking spring calves. They don’t look that good though
Cowski
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- Location
- South West
Reckon they built it to be impossible to measure on an EA inspectionView attachment 1134751Popped up due to looking for staff. The importance of that existing lane is without words
TheRanger
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- Location
- SW Scotland
Ice- cream attraction Cream o' Galloway set to close down
The operators of the Cream o' Galloway site say they are "very sad" to shut the visitor centre.
www.bbc.co.uk
Thought they might have crowd funded to keep a loss making enterprise going.
Calves drinking all the milk I guessIce- cream attraction Cream o' Galloway set to close down
The operators of the Cream o' Galloway site say they are "very sad" to shut the visitor centre.www.bbc.co.uk
Thought they might have crowd funded to keep a loss making enterprise going.
What's the issue?View attachment 1134751Popped up due to looking for staff. The importance of that existing lane is without words
Top half of the picture is really right looking.
- Location
- somerset
the importance of a proper transition diet.
It all starts with the dry cow, get that, and your milkers ration right, everything falls into place.
And, Joe S was incredibly knowledgeable on her subject, we had her as our nutritionist, as well, before she 'diversified', a great shame, she passed at an early age. A big loss to the industry.
- Location
- somerset
difficult to say twin, or not, or which belongs to who, when you have a lot of cows calving at the same time.
Usually end up with odd hfr, that doesn't get i/calf, we like them, mmmm steaks !
In 50 yrs of messing about with cows, don't really think we have had more than an odd hfr get i/c, when twinned with a bull.
You can use a biro to see, basically how far it goes in, never bothered with it, they either calve, or not, and when we pd the hfrs, all becomes clear, with a nicely finished hfr.
Much more disappointed with our hfr, that calved with 2 blind quarters
, nice hfr to.Look closely and you will see it is the power lines dictating the shape of the lagoon.
Let sleeping dogs lie