Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

[neilo]

I came home from primary school and mum had sky news on the telly. Which was odd as mum never watched sky news and the telly was never on when we got home either! She explained it to us, scared us to death as we’d got our first foreign holiday booked for the November to Florida!

We went to the wedding of an old college mate a few weeks after, in New York, with the reception half way up a tower block. A surreal experience that I will never forget.

Remember sitting in the terminal in Birmingham, waiting to fly out, watching any 'muslim looking' fellas very suspiciously...

 

[Al R]

I'm going to regret asking this, cos I make a point of staying completely out of the equine department here, but one of the nags is wrecking the stables currently.....can be a deficiency?

What in?

The 'kin thing won't eat the new hay either

I know some horsey girls have like a ball they put cobs/nuts or something in to keep them entertained not a clue if they stop them chewing fences, best horse fields I’ve seen is sheep netting with double barb, the top one being ontop of the post so they couldn’t chew them. Horses were for meat/lion feed so didn’t matter if they had scratches on their sides like a prize horse

 

[Hill Ground]

Boredom !! Same with fences!! Doubt it’s deficient in anything it’s probably on every supplement going if it’s owned by typical horsey person!! Give it a lump of rock salt, it’ll give it something to do, and if it’s after the salt in the wood preserver it might stop that, once they start though it just becomes a habit!! As a family we’ve bred hundreds of the f**king things in one form or another

All of that sounds about right. Daughters getting a bit bored of it/ more interested in going out + boys......we're out of the frying pan into the fire!!

I know some horsey girls have like a ball they put cobs/nuts or something in to keep them entertained not a clue if they stop them chewing fences, best horse fields I’ve seen is sheep netting with double barb, the top one being ontop of the post so they couldn’t chew them. Horses were for meat/lion feed so didn’t matter if they had scratches on their sides like a prize horse

It got out once, I put a proper fencer unit on the tape, and a strand of hot plain wire about 12 inches off the ground....job sorted!!

 

[neilo]

It got out once, I put a proper fencer unit on the tape, and a strand of hot plain wire about 12 inches off the ground....job sorted!!

Wife’s two nags started pushing on a neighbour’s garden fence so I put a few stakes in a foot or so out, as we’ve always done with cows, with a single strand of wire connected to a mains fencer.
They no longer cause issues, or like me much.

 

[Optimus]

Calved a cow this morning,calf was in a bag luckily it was ok .went into the shed this afternoon,cows flat out with milk fever

 

[livestock 1]

Calved a cow this morning,calf was in a bag luckily it was ok .went into the shed this afternoon,cows flat out with milk fever

It’s a bad time of year for that sort of thing
Think 6 in one day is the record here i still have nightmares about it

 

[Optimus]

It’s a bad time of year for that sort of thing
Think 6 in one day is the record here i still have nightmares about it

Just when I thought I was getting on top of the job too
6 is fair going some!

 

[unlacedgecko]

Cali Squeeze Blood Orange Hefeweizen. Like @JSmith it goes down easy.

 

[johnspeehs]

Are hoirse's deficient in somthing or is it teeth problem? Or just plain bored.

They suck in air as they chew and its to help with salivation, as well as boredom and salt deficiency , We call them wind suckers, bad ones will ruin every fence about the place.

 

[JockCroft]

They suck in air as they chew and its to help with salivation, as well as boredom and salt deficiency , We call them wind suckers, bad ones will ruin every fence about the place.

Thank goodness, never been horse's here in my time.
Last Clydesdale went year I was born, I kept getting told as a kid.

 

[Lemon curd]

One for the foot experts, got 2 on the farm with this happening. Any ideas? Is it from formalin to strong? Only happening on the farm which has a footbath, the hoof is detaching itselfView attachment 1147573View attachment 1147574

Codd, derm which is a skin condition not hoof. The bacteria comes onto pasture from the intestines. It travels through the hollow hair follice to get onto the skin. Its main aim is to get away from oxygen asap, so it usually finds a weakness in the coronary band and goes in deep and fast. It has to get worse before you can trim the hoof to expose air to it. If the hoof condition is good and hard through formalin footbathing , it cant get in to the hoof so it makes a wound as yours. Copper sulphate is better than formalin if theyve got it and the vet blue spray containing antibiotic is better than purple. Also I jab mine with alamycin. Once theyve got it , they will be imune. My lambs get it every year , ewes are fine. Because the bacteria starts on the skin of the leg,standing them in DEEP copper sulphate helps to stop it getting lower towards the hoof. Imo . Hope this helps

 

[Fendt516profi]

View attachment 1147565That 2 hours of my life I won’t get back. If I’d read the manual before then it would only have take 20 mins.

Shouldn't really take as long as 20mins to put fuel cap back on after refilling

 

[Estate fencing.]

Also I jab mine with alamycin.

Alamycin wont touch codd, either a course of betamox or a single does of draxxin to clear it up.

 

[Chicken richard]

Me too. Don't really remember hearing about it but remember our form teacher telling us about it next morning in case we hadn't heard at home. Not sure how you wouldn't have heard.

11 Sept 2001
I was In oz flood irrigating cotton in the out back on a quad bike and the accommodation had had a fire so in basic digs with no TV or radio.
The boss told us 2 days later.

 

[Estate fencing.]

My own ewes on GS4, won’t last long as the is a very wet field despite being a bank. My get round to weaning the last lambs before the tup go in.

 

[Cowpoke82]

All of that sounds about right. Daughters getting a bit bored of it/ more interested in going out + boys......we're out of the frying pan into the fire!!

It got out once, I put a proper fencer unit on the tape, and a strand of hot plain wire about 12 inches off the ground....job sorted!!

Wife had horses , I once wired her tape into the cattle mains energiser because I couldn’t be arsed charging batteries , one morning she goes to get the horse in , opens the spring gate and there was a loud shriek followed by tears an sobbing , I went to the end of the garden looked over to see her holding her tit an crying , turns out she had bent down to undo the gate way an got zapped on her nipple

 

[Al R]

Wife had horses , I once wired her tape into the cattle mains energiser because I couldn’t be arsed charging batteries , one morning she goes to get the horse in , opens the spring gate and there was a loud shriek followed by tears an sobbing , I went to the end of the garden looked over to see her holding her tit an crying , turns out she had bent down to undo the gate way an got zapped on her nipple

People pay good money for that sort of pleasure

 

[Al R]

Codd, derm which is a skin condition not hoof. The bacteria comes onto pasture from the intestines. It travels through the hollow hair follice to get onto the skin. Its main aim is to get away from oxygen asap, so it usually finds a weakness in the coronary band and goes in deep and fast. It has to get worse before you can trim the hoof to expose air to it. If the hoof condition is good and hard through formalin footbathing , it cant get in to the hoof so it makes a wound as yours. Copper sulphate is better than formalin if theyve got it and the vet blue spray containing antibiotic is better than purple. Also I jab mine with alamycin. Once theyve got it , they will be imune. My lambs get it every year , ewes are fine. Because the bacteria starts on the skin of the leg,standing them in DEEP copper sulphate helps to stop it getting lower towards the hoof. Imo . Hope this helps

Thanks
I had codd this time of year 4-5 years ago and havnt seen it since. 4 days on, 2 days off of double strength footbath sorted than after 4 cycles of it.
As it’s only a few and their no way as bad as last time I had it I didn’t think it was CODD..

 

[Cowpoke82]

People pay good money for that sort of pleasure

I don’t know what circles you move in but that type of behaviour is beyond me

 

[kfpben]

People pay good money for that sort of pleasure

A friend of mine is an Army medic and was put in a sexual health clinic in Soho, London during his training.

It was quite an eye opener for a country lad-
light bulbs put where the sun don’t shine, padlocks put on the meat & two veg and the stench of fish so bad that you’d think a trawler had landed were just some of his tales!