Bolusing dairy beef stirks

[Bob the beef]

Looking for a bit of advice regarding bolusing first time grazing dairy xbeef calves. I will be putting around 150 of these stirks to grass in next few weeks. They have been on farm since November and will be c220/300 kg going out. My breeding stock are regularly blood testing low in selenium and iodine. What’s the thoughts regarding this and is it value for money. Depending on the brand boluses will cost £2/3. Not a lot to pay if the dlwg increases significantly

 

[Old apprentice]

Would this be first year grazing for some?

 

[Bob the beef]

Would this be first year grazing for some?

First grazing for them all

 

[Old apprentice]

Not much help but I used to boules dry cows with iodine boules before we did some calves just would not suck what a vast difference after we bouloused them. One other thing on first turn out of young cattle we used auto worm bouloused to me best thing for worms and lung worm pulse release it crate amunity to both gut and lung worm .

 

[Woolless]

If you have blood test results telling you that there's a trace element problem, I think you would be daft not to correct it for £3.

 

[digger64]

Looking for a bit of advice regarding bolusing first time grazing dairy xbeef calves. I will be putting around 150 of these stirks to grass in next few weeks. They have been on farm since November and will be c220/300 kg going out. My breeding stock are regularly blood testing low in selenium and iodine. What’s the thoughts regarding this and is it value for money. Depending on the brand boluses will cost £2/3. Not a lot to pay if the dlwg increases significantly

we have done them , I would do them a few days before turning out or loading up and get them settled down again - as the bolusing seems to upset young cattle more than cows for some reason or other .