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Getting on top of mastitis
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<blockquote data-quote="farmideas" data-source="post: 3335208" data-attributes="member: 3653"><p>I had a very good relationship with my vet, who charged per visit and for supplies. I bought wormers from the co-op as their price was less. I wish he'd said "you'll always have trouble rearing calves like this" and then explain why and what he would recommend. The 25 years I've been doing Prac Farm Ideas have shown me just how many fundamental mistakes I made, yet my farming was considered to be pretty good. Today I can see them as plain as a pikestaff. But when the routine occupies most of every day it is easy to delude oneself thinking you're doing it okay. Everyone gets bouts of mastitis, foot problems, calf issues. Having seen so many great ideas I wish he had told me to move the calves to another shed, and totted up the cost of not doing so. The job would have been done next day. A few years ago I visited a dairy farm with calves in an adapted shed, and it looked so good. They'd made a false ceiling for the pen and the calves kept warm with air moving in the pen. I've only seen it the once and wrote it up in <a href="https://www.farmideas.co.uk/shop/product/70%20%20vol%2018%20%20issue%202%20%20summer%202009/8967" target="_blank">issue 18-2</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmideas, post: 3335208, member: 3653"] I had a very good relationship with my vet, who charged per visit and for supplies. I bought wormers from the co-op as their price was less. I wish he'd said "you'll always have trouble rearing calves like this" and then explain why and what he would recommend. The 25 years I've been doing Prac Farm Ideas have shown me just how many fundamental mistakes I made, yet my farming was considered to be pretty good. Today I can see them as plain as a pikestaff. But when the routine occupies most of every day it is easy to delude oneself thinking you're doing it okay. Everyone gets bouts of mastitis, foot problems, calf issues. Having seen so many great ideas I wish he had told me to move the calves to another shed, and totted up the cost of not doing so. The job would have been done next day. A few years ago I visited a dairy farm with calves in an adapted shed, and it looked so good. They'd made a false ceiling for the pen and the calves kept warm with air moving in the pen. I've only seen it the once and wrote it up in [URL='https://www.farmideas.co.uk/shop/product/70%20%20vol%2018%20%20issue%202%20%20summer%202009/8967']issue 18-2[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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