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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 8002934" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>rather different to what we do. You have hugely bigger numbers, but the key point, you have a protocol, and that's the important part.</p><p> Know a large dairy, relying on E Europe labour, they have a white board, with exact stages for each calf. And things can still go badly wrong.</p><p></p><p> Calf mortality is high in the UK, and there is serious room for improvement, and the lack of routine, and time, is, along with environment, the major cause. We feed colostrum pretty well right through the 'milk' stage, block calving, and acidifying colostrum, makes that easy and cheap, one advantage, we never tube a calf, unless a real reason. One disadvantage with feeding colostrum, its so rich, we have to limit it to 4l day, in 2 feeds, so dehydration is a risk, we individually pen each calf, fresh water is available from day 1, we fill the buckets, so we know what each calf drinks. </p><p></p><p> Interested in why you multi min jab, we bolus each cow at drying off, along with worm and fluke, and dry cows/hfrs have a dry cow min tub available. There is a school of thought, that we shouldn't worm cows, as a routine treatment. Certainly dry cow management impacts +ve or -ve on calf vitality. We also vaccinate each cow/hfr with rota corona.</p><p></p><p>Its interesting to see how others rear calves, its an area which can always be improved, and is also a subject that can improve financial matters. We have a local lady, that just does the calves, nothing else, an expense which is easily recovered by better calves, esp beef ones, and very low mortality, currently 2%, 1 just died on day 2, the other a jersey bull calf, which we just euthanised.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 8002934, member: 86168"] rather different to what we do. You have hugely bigger numbers, but the key point, you have a protocol, and that's the important part. Know a large dairy, relying on E Europe labour, they have a white board, with exact stages for each calf. And things can still go badly wrong. Calf mortality is high in the UK, and there is serious room for improvement, and the lack of routine, and time, is, along with environment, the major cause. We feed colostrum pretty well right through the 'milk' stage, block calving, and acidifying colostrum, makes that easy and cheap, one advantage, we never tube a calf, unless a real reason. One disadvantage with feeding colostrum, its so rich, we have to limit it to 4l day, in 2 feeds, so dehydration is a risk, we individually pen each calf, fresh water is available from day 1, we fill the buckets, so we know what each calf drinks. Interested in why you multi min jab, we bolus each cow at drying off, along with worm and fluke, and dry cows/hfrs have a dry cow min tub available. There is a school of thought, that we shouldn't worm cows, as a routine treatment. Certainly dry cow management impacts +ve or -ve on calf vitality. We also vaccinate each cow/hfr with rota corona. Its interesting to see how others rear calves, its an area which can always be improved, and is also a subject that can improve financial matters. We have a local lady, that just does the calves, nothing else, an expense which is easily recovered by better calves, esp beef ones, and very low mortality, currently 2%, 1 just died on day 2, the other a jersey bull calf, which we just euthanised. [/QUOTE]
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