Hiefer temperament

[vantage]

Tried a pacifier?

Nice idea,but............

 

[supercow]

Iv always thought about a pacifier, is it legal? I priced one that had to come from New Zealand and it would cost 7/800 including delivery

 

[Suckndiesel]

Iv always thought about a pacifier, is it legal? I priced one that had to come from New Zealand and it would cost 7/800 including delivery

Don't think so, heard of good reports of them from people using them in other countries...

 

[O'Reilly]

Iv always thought about a pacifier, is it legal? I priced one that had to come from New Zealand and it would cost 7/800 including delivery

5 grand fine if you're caught with one

 

[Sparkymark]

If they dont kick once you get a kick bar on them i keep them, if they still knock unit off with a kick bar on then its burgers im afraid.

 

[Clay52]

Don't think so, heard of good reports of them from people using them in other countries...

And the kiwis are supposed to be world leaders and they allow that crap to be used on animals.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

And the Kiwis are world leaders and they allow that crap to be used on animals.

Never seen one used here, never seen anyone use one either, if you have heifer that kicks , ask yourself why, has she got a bad quarter? Ffs just use a leg rope, if that doesn't work after a couple of milkings , then off to Mc Donalds.

 

[multi power]

Never seen one used here, never seen anyone use one either, if you have heifer that kicks , ask yourself why, has she got a bad quarter? Ffs just use a leg rope, if that doesn't work after a couple of milkings , then off to Mc Donalds.

Couldn't agree more, first thing i do is put a lot of teat cream on anything that kicks
On a herd level most temperament problems problems are milker temperament, rather than a cow problem

 

[Woolgatherer]

I relief milk on a farm and last year got a really bad kick from a heifer. She lashed out and got me on the upper arm. It's still not right. I tried a kick bar on her and she went mental with it. Tried a tail clamp, no effect at all. Tried the 2 together, went mental with the kick bar. Eventually I went and got one of the farmers who was feeding up. He came in and went into the pit. Reappeared about 30 seconds later saying she was off for fat. We managed to get shackles on her and that enabled us to milk her enough to stop her getting mastitis before she went away, but anyone who milked her ended up black and blue across the hands and lower arms with the chains. She's gone now, the only one I've failed to milk in about 17 years. I got really upset that a good heifer was going because I couldn't milk her but a year on, my bicep muscle is still not quite right and I have some nerve damage to my fingers which might be permanent. (No I didn't sue, and no I wouldn't!)

 

[vantage]

How do I beat the weather?
Pray, and watch the weather channel or pick up weather charts off one of the Internet sites. In many parts of the country, weather systems provide windows -- a period of 3-5 days of dry, crisp weather between two fronts. The beginning of a dry window is the time to cut your hay. Sometimes folk wisdom, like the feel of a coming northwester in an arthritic knee, can predict haying weather better than the charts.
Given a choice, waiting for dry weather and cutting the hay beyond its peak is better than the risk of getting hay rained on. Rain is not always the ultimate disaster for hay. Little harm comes to hay that is rained on right after it is cut, then quickly dried. If your hay gets rained on late in the drying cycle, either feed it out immediately, sell it to a neighbor who can feed it out immediately, or bale it for mulch hay.

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[Married 2 The Mob]

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I think somebody took a kick to the head fitting some shackles last night !

 

[vantage]

What’s the score with a pacifier? Just seen someone advertising use of one , nothing at all to do with me.

 

[farmer JD]

I relief milk on a farm and last year got a really bad kick from a heifer. She lashed out and got me on the upper arm. It's still not right. I tried a kick bar on her and she went mental with it. Tried a tail clamp, no effect at all. Tried the 2 together, went mental with the kick bar. Eventually I went and got one of the farmers who was feeding up. He came in and went into the pit. Reappeared about 30 seconds later saying she was off for fat. We managed to get shackles on her and that enabled us to milk her enough to stop her getting mastitis before she went away, but anyone who milked her ended up black and blue across the hands and lower arms with the chains. She's gone now, the only one I've failed to milk in about 17 years. I got really upset that a good heifer was going because I couldn't milk her but a year on, my bicep muscle is still not quite right and I have some nerve damage to my fingers which might be permanent. (No I didn't sue, and no I wouldn't!)

We hold there tails up or stand in front of them that seems too work

 

[som farmer]

one thing not said about fr, is temperament, i can still picture one old bitch, i had to milk, in my early teens, they could be some miserable old bitches ! Not helped, by somerset cattle breeders, pushing a bull, horwood emperor, the 25th, we used to compare notes, skittling, on the latest kicking, they were all evil ! A kicker, in the present time, is, something that should not be in a herd, the risks are simply to great. We have all had them, over the years, and strapped, spanned them, and won, but today, to many working alone.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

What’s the score with a pacifier? Just seen someone advertising use of one , nothing at all to do with me.

What would you like to know, PM if you prefer

 

[dowcow]

We've got one that stands still when you go to put the unit on, but when you're stripping and wiping is a complete arse. If you raise your voice to her in frustration she sh1!s all over the place in retaliation. Figured she would calm down but shes only got worse and if she wasn't in calf she would be going. Sometimes she kicks with both feet at once and jumps up and down like your hands are on fire. She stands happily chewing her cud watching you milk waiting to come in on the first right-hand side, but every now and again will look at you when the gate opens and will then reverse and feck off and come in last. Mental little sod.

 

[som farmer]

years ago, the old man bought 2 r+w hfrs, at a local sale, one was brilliant, the other was mental, seriously mental, words were said, stubbornness crept in, bloody thing stayed, in a bad mood, she would go over cows, in front of her in the parlour, got it down to a fine art, once she learn't, if she went in, first cow, we would let her straight out, 3 lactations, f-all, in the tank, OM had to milk one day, next mkt day, she made a good barrener ! I think it was the only cow, that we couldn't milk, spanning, rope around guts, loved all that, her 'piece de'resistance, if all else failed, she would lie down, sometimes, with her legs upwards !