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Milk bar teat buckets advice
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 6753942" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>we use single feeders, difficult to describe, or name ! basically a flat sided bucket, with a teat, and a moulded handle that fits over pen front, when calf finished, just tip it back over the front, calf cannot get to tit, dead easy to flip back over to refill, ours came from Fane Valley Supplies, via ebay, no doubt other places do them, but we have never seen them in a store !</p><p>Tarw Coch, at one time, the 'best' advice, was not to wash the buckets out at all ! Reason, natural bugs would multiply, and the calf would benefit from them. Having reared 1000's of calves, as a general rule, we wash buckets, once a day.</p><p> But, on the odd bunch that wouldn't get 'going', I have tried not washing, and it has worked well, supprisingly, the difference to today, would probably be 'added' supplements, as in probiotics. But, I hate seeing dirty buckets, we use acidified milk, which aids breakdown, in the calves stomach, much the same, I would think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 6753942, member: 86168"] we use single feeders, difficult to describe, or name ! basically a flat sided bucket, with a teat, and a moulded handle that fits over pen front, when calf finished, just tip it back over the front, calf cannot get to tit, dead easy to flip back over to refill, ours came from Fane Valley Supplies, via ebay, no doubt other places do them, but we have never seen them in a store ! Tarw Coch, at one time, the 'best' advice, was not to wash the buckets out at all ! Reason, natural bugs would multiply, and the calf would benefit from them. Having reared 1000's of calves, as a general rule, we wash buckets, once a day. But, on the odd bunch that wouldn't get 'going', I have tried not washing, and it has worked well, supprisingly, the difference to today, would probably be 'added' supplements, as in probiotics. But, I hate seeing dirty buckets, we use acidified milk, which aids breakdown, in the calves stomach, much the same, I would think. [/QUOTE]
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