Lots of calves dieing

Wolds Beef

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@Shortarse How old are they when you get them from the dairy farm? If only a very few hours old you could give them dried colostrum mixed. Ask if they get colostrum within the 6 hour window. If they don't, don't have them!! They need good nutrition in there early days as people have said or else you are wasting your money.
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som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
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somerset
I think your right. Sound like someone has a anti dairy farmer agenda. Think they want someone to put home many calves they have lost so they can copy and paste. This is a load of made up twaddle. 😡
it may, or may not be, an anti cow wind-up
but for calves to die between 3 - 7 months, most of the problem will be nutrition, in the milk stage, up to 2 months, and, if he is an anti, not much of an article, if he killed off the calves, by bad management, is it, wonder which newspaper would run that ?
Or, he may well be a beginner, trying to get going, in which case he needs some good advice. If they are not doing now, they wont catch up, and will pick up diseases for a pastime.
coughing look for pneumonia'
plain and hairy, coxxy, or lice,
advice, give them all a lice pour on, mineral drench, vitamins, and better grub, and a coxxy drench.
But, if they haven't had a good start, for whatever reason, they will never grow to their potential, and put it down to experience. Next time, use the best food only, and plenty of it, the max response to feed, is up to 8 weeks, after that, the conversion ratio goes down.
 

Estate fencing.

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Livestock Farmer
it may, or may not be, an anti cow wind-up
but for calves to die between 3 - 7 months, most of the problem will be nutrition, in the milk stage, up to 2 months, and, if he is an anti, not much of an article, if he killed off the calves, by bad management, is it, wonder which newspaper would run that ?
Or, he may well be a beginner, trying to get going, in which case he needs some good advice. If they are not doing now, they wont catch up, and will pick up diseases for a pastime.
coughing look for pneumonia'
plain and hairy, coxxy, or lice,
advice, give them all a lice pour on, mineral drench, vitamins, and better grub, and a coxxy drench.
But, if they haven't had a good start, for whatever reason, they will never grow to their potential, and put it down to experience. Next time, use the best food only, and plenty of it, the max response to feed, is up to 8 weeks, after that, the conversion ratio goes down.
Yeah and I’m sure that Nigerian price who wants me to look after his 20 million is legit as well. 😂. Read the op it makes no sense, who calls it old grains from a brewery and why would they be trying to get people to say they loose half there calves because they where taken off the cows.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
no response from shortass, so definitely a wind up, l would think.
good advert for those that want to rescue calves, from us cruel farmers, which they proceed to kill off slowly, by not feeding them properly, was going to say feeding them with vegan food, but cows pretty well are veggie leaning towards vegan.
 

Timbo

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Location
Gods County
Sorry m8 ...this was my first batch of cattle .... even tho its brewery grain it has rolled barley and oats I didn't clarify that I can upload a picture of the product ... not very good at putting words together.... I hav vet on Tuesday coming to take sh!t and blood samples... I am thinking its still this naval infection....I had them on a 5 day course of antibiotics from vet.. look like its back ...as from dairy farm, calves are taken away at day old so the regular licking and cleaning from a mother cow is not their, where as with beef suckler you wouldn't get this problem, I didn't know this at the time but it looks like this is what my calves have. Hopefully makes sence. I'm still learning so I do apprisiate the help I hav gotten

With greatest of respect it doesn't sound like you should be keeping cattle.
 

primmiemoo

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Location
Devon
Hi @Shortarse , would activating predictive spelling, or spellchecker on your keyboard help you to explain better? Is there a way you can learn how to post a picture, if words aren't easy?

Everybody starts somewhere. Problems happen. There's lots of help in here if people can fathom the problem. Could we see the calves, please? I have an image of a rough coat, and pot belly in your calves, but there could be other clues to what's wrong.
 

puppet

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Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
no response from shortass, so definitely a wind up, l would think.
good advert for those that want to rescue calves, from us cruel farmers, which they proceed to kill off slowly, by not feeding them properly, was going to say feeding them with vegan food, but cows pretty well are veggie leaning towards vegan.
Quite hard to kill a ruminant with a vegan diet. Grass, cereals, nuts, swedes, carrots, waste bread?
 

HillLuing

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Easiest way to find out is, if youlose another one, stickit on a trailer and take it to your nearest PM lab if your vets cant do afm full in detail PM and give you the exact cause of death!
As said dying between 3-7 months is strange, evenon a crap sh!t ration, theywould normally die wlel before this usually
 

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