serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Are your Herefords x friesan or holstein too?
What bull do you put them to ?
f**k Up Fortnight
- Thread starter yellowbelly
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What bull do you put them to ?
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Not had an APHA visit before but think there will be one soon after the vet f##ked up on inputing data on time after TB test and caused a load of inconvenience
, Have they give you a list of what they require ?
- Location
- Cheshire
Sorry!! My bad!!!
- Location
- Cheshire
TBH I’d rather have the APHA than the RPA from previous experience. Never had a problem with the RPA but the APHA seem more laid back and just focus on a small area rather than whole farm. Yes, they tell you what they want too see beforehand.Not had an APHA visit before but think there will be one soon after the vet f##ked up on inputing data on time after TB test and caused a load of inconvenience
Have they give you a list of what they require ?
Hereford X Friesian. Put a pedigree Hereford on them....want easy to handle cattle. Weaned at 8 months sold at 10 months...300kg+ £700+
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Christ that looks just like me but without a coat the dogs cowed the arm half off!
- Location
- N.Lincs
I'd no idea that Shaun The Sheep was filmed in the Cotswolds
Greythundercloudys
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Isn't this what the general public think farmers look like, late 50s with a cap, checked shirt,
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Coulda used a photo where he's stood with the Zetor 
- Location
- Cheshire
Today’s feck ups. 
5 week old lim bull calf on cow, started looking off last night. Jabbed with Zactran & Recocam. This morning scouring white water. Doses for scours, no improvement by 2pm. Sent for vet, 2litre of intravenous electrolytes. Rotavirus with pneumonia complications.
While she was here got her too look at a 4 month bucket reared blue heifer that had bloat this morning. I’d deflated her 3 times over the day, administered anti inflammatory and bicarbonate of soda dose. But she was blown up again tonight. So vet fitted a Red Devil. That brought her down! So we will see how many dead calves I have in the morning. Got too dose the scouring calf with electrolytes at midnight then at 6am, 12, 6pm and midnight again for next 3 days! All when I wanted too be double checking the paperwork for the inspection tomorrow.
some days I really have had enough.
5 week old lim bull calf on cow, started looking off last night. Jabbed with Zactran & Recocam. This morning scouring white water. Doses for scours, no improvement by 2pm. Sent for vet, 2litre of intravenous electrolytes. Rotavirus with pneumonia complications.
While she was here got her too look at a 4 month bucket reared blue heifer that had bloat this morning. I’d deflated her 3 times over the day, administered anti inflammatory and bicarbonate of soda dose. But she was blown up again tonight. So vet fitted a Red Devil. That brought her down! So we will see how many dead calves I have in the morning. Got too dose the scouring calf with electrolytes at midnight then at 6am, 12, 6pm and midnight again for next 3 days! All when I wanted too be double checking the paperwork for the inspection tomorrow.
some days I really have had enough.
- Location
- Cheshire
On the plus side, 2 sets of healthy lambs this afternoon
My ewes are on really good silage this year and it’s creating a problem I’ve never had before in houses ewes, they have to much milk, bloody teats bigger than dairy cows and full, i must have milked 20 litres out today, be worse problems to have I suppose.
- Location
- Cheshire
Our
Suffolk mules used too do that on us. Another reason they went. Tits bigger than some of the suckler cows!
- Location
- North Suffolk
We had a four week old shorthorn heifer stone cold dead yesterday morning, what is really annoying is we can see no reason why. Dad was even in the yard the night previous helping one to suckle and it was tearing around with the rest no problem.Today’s feck ups.
5 week old lim bull calf on cow, started looking off last night. Jabbed with Zactran & Recocam. This morning scouring white water. Doses for scours, no improvement by 2pm. Sent for vet, 2litre of intravenous electrolytes. Rotavirus with pneumonia complications.
While she was here got her too look at a 4 month bucket reared blue heifer that had bloat this morning. I’d deflated her 3 times over the day, administered anti inflammatory and bicarbonate of soda dose. But she was blown up again tonight. So vet fitted a Red Devil. That brought her down! So we will see how many dead calves I have in the morning. Got too dose the scouring calf with electrolytes at midnight then at 6am, 12, 6pm and midnight again for next 3 days! All when I wanted too be double checking the paperwork for the inspection tomorrow.
Farmer 83563
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Do you have one of these, we find it really useful and better for the ewes teats
Farmer 83563
Member
Its just a hand suction pump you leave on the teat and slowly milks her out into a bottle
Not my hand btw!
Had a similar problem last year with ewes on rocket fuel haylage and too much cake. This year they're on meadow hay and have had very little cake. Milk supply good and no cow udders. Couldn't justify cake spend and went for better grass management. Hopefully I've learnt my lesson on overfeeding cake and using grass as a cheaper alternative.