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Improving suckler cow colostrum quality
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<blockquote data-quote="twizzel" data-source="post: 8055286" data-attributes="member: 64240"><p>Soya seems to be a winner, so may be something to try. I’m not sure how we would feed it though other than put all the cows on it for the winter, maybe top dressed onto bale silage? Dry cows and cows with calves all run as 1 bunch. We have a couple of big pens inside the shed that cows calve down in but they’re only really in them a week either side of calving. Incidentally I put my little flock of ewes onto a ewe nut with more soya and DUP and they’ve been on another level for milk. So just need to work out how we could add soya into the sucklers diet… <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤔" title="Thinking face :thinking:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" data-shortname=":thinking:" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Summer calving don’t have issues with scour but not ideal with contracting work, and try to sell in suckled calf sales tb allowing, so Jan-March is better to calve in, so calves grown on nicely by autumn. In fairness the scour vaccine does keep rotavirus at bay most of the time, and it’s the first time in 3 or 4 years we’ve had a positive rota snap test. The bull running with cows all year round means we are quite often caught out with vaccine timing, as by the time the cows are scanned they’re well in calf and due dates are only rough estimates. Block calving would be a lot easier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="twizzel, post: 8055286, member: 64240"] Soya seems to be a winner, so may be something to try. I’m not sure how we would feed it though other than put all the cows on it for the winter, maybe top dressed onto bale silage? Dry cows and cows with calves all run as 1 bunch. We have a couple of big pens inside the shed that cows calve down in but they’re only really in them a week either side of calving. Incidentally I put my little flock of ewes onto a ewe nut with more soya and DUP and they’ve been on another level for milk. So just need to work out how we could add soya into the sucklers diet… 🤔 Summer calving don’t have issues with scour but not ideal with contracting work, and try to sell in suckled calf sales tb allowing, so Jan-March is better to calve in, so calves grown on nicely by autumn. In fairness the scour vaccine does keep rotavirus at bay most of the time, and it’s the first time in 3 or 4 years we’ve had a positive rota snap test. The bull running with cows all year round means we are quite often caught out with vaccine timing, as by the time the cows are scanned they’re well in calf and due dates are only rough estimates. Block calving would be a lot easier. [/QUOTE]
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