Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

graham99

Member
Telling folk they must self-isolate / essential journeys only / no busting holiday homes then swanning off to visit his own...... willy!

Grounds for sacking.
put in place by people that can not be touched . kiwi land has a lot of people , not allowed too be touched .
our richest man graeme hart is running our labour govt .
which only cost him two leagle payments of 15000 .it seems our torys have got to pricey for our rich
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
how do you pay 250 k in tax . we do have accounts .
Usually make a fair bit and donate a fair bit, but again "sad" that when you donate to half of these outfits very little gets to the recipients.
When NZF and Labour got in I figured the country would need a bit more help, so canned most of the donations or toned them down a bit.

Then you look at the wasters in parliament and wonder if you did the right thing or not ?‍♂️
 

Yale

Member
Livestock Farmer
Do you get them back in OK by yourself? I learnt a neat trick back in my dairying days, make a platform behind the cow with clean 20 litre containers to keep the uterus at the same height as the vulva (so you aren't working against gravity so much) with a piece of new silage sheet over the top.
Like a table.

Then, clean everything up and start feeding it back in, have a long-neck beer or wine bottle handy so you can turn the far end of the uterus right, properly "in the right way" because IME if you don't, the extra discomfort results in her pushing the bloody calf bed back out again very shortly.
My arms are too short without the bottle.
And then give them an oxytocin needle to tighten it all up so she wont spit it back out.

Rang the vet as the heifer was a bit uncooperative,she sedated her.

We’d already put sugar all over the prolapse to make it shrink then the vet had brought a hip clamp. Managed to get the post knocker on loader slotted in to then lift her.

It went back in not too bad then,obviously keeping 2m distancing......,;):rolleyes::whistle:

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I had taken my over all off but forgot to then take my jumper off but a bit of blood won’t matter.

Heifer is OK this morning so lets hope it stays that way.

This is her just after calving,she’d pushed it out about 4 hours later which is unusual.

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hendrebc

Member
Livestock Farmer
I've lost the quote but it was the one about the NZ politician ignoring their own advice about not leaving home and someone said they should get the sack. They shouldn't just get sacked they should lose their pensions as well otherwise the sack is no deterrent at all. They are elected and paid by the public and they really should be whiter than white if that is the case. A lot of them would be unemployable in the private sector.
 

Doc

Member
Livestock Farmer
Not allowed to hold Oxytocin here. It's a vet only drug.
Er..
Not true. It’s used commonly for heifers not letting milk down, among its other handy uses, like uterine involution.
It’s all relative to the relationship you have with your Vet. Like all POM (prescription only) meds.
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
Er..
Not true. It’s used commonly for heifers not letting milk down, among its other handy uses, like uterine involution.
It’s all relative to the relationship you have with your Vet. Like all POM (prescription only) meds.
I've been told by 2 vets (who I get on well with, one we are registered with) that they can't supply either to me to keep in stock "in case".

I'll check the legal situation via my niece who works for NOAH.
 

hendrebc

Member
Livestock Farmer
I've been told by 2 vets (who I get on well with, one we are registered with) that they can't supply either to me to keep in stock "in case".

I'll check the legal situation via my niece who works for NOAH.
I think you can have some if you are a dairy farmer but for beef and sheep probably not. I have asked before and told I can have a syringe full whenever if I want but not a bottle.
 

graham99

Member
Usually make a fair bit and donate a fair bit, but again "sad" that when you donate to half of these outfits very little gets to the recipients.
When NZF and Labour got in I figured the country would need a bit more help, so canned most of the donations or toned them down a bit.

Then you look at the wasters in parliament and wonder if you did the right thing or not ?‍♂️
if you are the same tax rate as me , 5 times 250 k well over a million . i think i am on 19%.
the good news is farmers do pay tax after all . they didn't my day
 

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