johnspeehs
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- Co Antrim
As above, any out of the box thinking?? tried all sorts of anti suck devices but he just pulls them out in a cpl of days. Calves need all the milk they can get, don't need to be competing with that brute.
Any ideas to stop a 900kg bull sucking the cows.??
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Plain steer
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- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Put him in with some fierce mothers? The type that will kick him in the head repeatedly?
- Location
- East Sussex
Chop his head off is probably the only thing you can do really. I guess you’re not keen on that though so maybe a halter with something attached to the nose strap. Weighted leather with some rivets in it perhaps and long enough to block access to the teats.
If I did that he’d probably hang himself with it somehow.
If I did that he’d probably hang himself with it somehow.
would one of those long metal chains from his ring work, the ones you use to stop them running, that may make it awkward for him and he aint going to pull it out.
The first link in the chain down from his ring, put a couple of bolts with slightly sharpened ends, soon as he pushes into the udder she will kick him off. So, just like the spikes you have tried but no way is he removing this.
The first link in the chain down from his ring, put a couple of bolts with slightly sharpened ends, soon as he pushes into the udder she will kick him off. So, just like the spikes you have tried but no way is he removing this.
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Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Spane him 
He's maybe just a very considerate lover, and it's just a bit of foreplay...
johnspeehs
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- Location
- Co Antrim
if that was all all it was it wouldn't be so bad but the bugger empties the cow
Hmmm.... A halter like a horse one, with a zapper on a sprung flap that'll get pushed down onto his nose when he goes in for a feed (like the water trough style that they push in with their nose)
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How’s that working out for you
Going around pushing bairns out of the way to get at their mothers?
Bitty...
Not well.
- Location
- North Pennines
Did you find a solution for your bull, same problem with one here
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
A good thick pasting on the teats with a concoction made up of chilli, paprika, etc. I used to make up some stuff with Industrial Vaseline from Ebay and a selection from the spice shelf at the super market to stop ponies eating manes and tails. The fun part is watching the reaction after the first taste.
I came across a tip in a 400 year old book on falconry to stop your hawk going off and killing hens which were commonly kept loose back then. The author recommended letting the hawk catch a hen, then sneaking up and sprinkling pepper on the meat. That certainly worked for me so I could keep my poultry on free range and the hawks tethered on their perches on the lawn. They decided hens were not fit to eat and didn't bother them. Strange but true.
I came across a tip in a 400 year old book on falconry to stop your hawk going off and killing hens which were commonly kept loose back then. The author recommended letting the hawk catch a hen, then sneaking up and sprinkling pepper on the meat. That certainly worked for me so I could keep my poultry on free range and the hawks tethered on their perches on the lawn. They decided hens were not fit to eat and didn't bother them. Strange but true.
- Location
- East Ayrshire
Not a lot of use of calves are still suckling too?
Twist some barb wire around his ring.
- Location
- Anston Farm, Dunsyre
Our lives are too short to prolong a problem
we used to have one here that did it with the Milk herd,
My father maintained he was the best bull every to get a cow settled in calf,
He'd Bull her then suck her dry, and then she'd settle and lye down, instead of running about with a big bag of milk and hormones pumping !!
My father maintained he was the best bull every to get a cow settled in calf,
He'd Bull her then suck her dry, and then she'd settle and lye down, instead of running about with a big bag of milk and hormones pumping !!
Has he got a ring ?
bean
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- Location
- holsworthy
I've had same problem with my lim bull, put a flat metal nose plate in and he stopped straight away
- Location
- North Pennines
I tried that but he lost it after 2 days. Has your bull got a nose ring because mine hasn’t and I was wondering if I put one in I could attach something to it