Restraint for serving maiden heifers...

[The Agrarian]

...in Newton rigg cubicles?

Yes, I know someone's going to come on and say you shouldn't be trying do that. It's older adapted housing, far from ideal. No convenient crush facility. Nowhere to hang an ai gate. Not possible to use locking yokes.

I'm trying to figure out how to make some kind of simple, easy to carry, secure bar or device that would latch on between two Newton Riggs to stop a heifer from reversing out. At the moment it takes two people to do the job, which is a bit of a pain. I'm sure someone somewhere has made one.

 

[dinderleat]

Can you just make a narrow one with a chain one end of the passage

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Pecker one or two of them out and put in some ai stalls instead?

 

[farmboy]

Clamp some extra bars on top of end cubicle, chain on the back and it’s basically an AI stall

 

[The Agrarian]

The cubicles are a touch wide. Ideally heifer needs to be held diagonal in cubicle to be tight.

 

[Cowabunga]

Heifers are generally small enough to turn around or whatever in a standard cow cubicle, so best idea is to remove one or more cubicles and install AI stalls or similar, ideally with an open front and yolk so that they walk in easily without too much objection. My shed has locking yolk feed barriers which are great as the AI person pours out a bag of cake for them to get all, or at least most of them secure while they AI.
Two people are always needed to AI in a cubicle to squeeze diagonally as mentioned above.

 

[thewalrus]

...in Newton rigg cubicles?

Yes, I know someone's going to come on and say you shouldn't be trying do that. It's older adapted housing, far from ideal. No convenient crush facility. Nowhere to hang an ai gate. Not possible to use locking yokes.

I'm trying to figure out how to make some kind of simple, easy to carry, secure bar or device that would latch on between two Newton Riggs to stop a heifer from reversing out. At the moment it takes two people to do the job, which is a bit of a pain. I'm sure someone somewhere has made one.

I’m just waiting for someone to come on and say buy a bull!

 

[idgni]

The cubicles are a touch wide. Ideally heifer needs to be held diagonal in cubicle to be tight.

why not just tie two large pallets to the insides of the cubicle stall with some bluebell !

 

[Sparkymark]

Might still need 2 people to get them to go in the ai stall

 

[Sparkymark]

I generally find mine stand still in the passage if there mad bulling.

 

[Agrifool]

Why would locking yokes not be possible? What about putting in just a small yocking panel at one end of the shed? Gate swinging to guide them in? It helps if you can lock a few heifers in either side of bulling heifer to keep her tight and calm.

 

[Wooly]

I hope you realise that under the new RT proposals, that you are not allowed to restrain or tether your animals !!

You must also realise that the way these RT rules are being dished out yearly, by 2025 you will not be allowed to AI cattle.....so don't spend too much money on up grading your system !!

 

[Cowabunga]

I do believe that there is an agenda to make animal husbandry too onerous in terms of regulations, so that the farmed numbers decline significantly over the next few years to satisfy everyone from the vegetarians and vegans to the climate brigade, all of whom have very significantly more influence than farmer Bloggs.

Where is the meat and milk to come from then? Well there is also a big lobby for just eating less meat, along with the imminent competition from non-meat-meat and milk substitute. The rest can be imported, because it comes not from the man on the Clapham omnibus's back yard, so his conscience would be clear and it will tick a lot of Britain's declared 'environmental targets'.

 

[vantage]

I do believe that there is an agenda to make animal husbandry too onerous in terms of regulations, so that the farmed numbers decline significantly over the next few years to satisfy everyone from the vegetarians and vegans to the climate brigade, all of whom have very significantly more influence than farmer Bloggs.

Where is the meat and milk to come from then? Well there is also a big lobby for just eating less meat, along with the imminent competition from non-meat-meat and milk substitute. The rest can be imported, because it comes not from the man on the Clapham omnibus's back yard, so his conscience would be clear and it will tick a lot of Britain's declared 'environmental targets'.

Well this January I’ve heard very little of the vegan effort, much more of meat and dairy, also saw the AHDB advert on TV, very good it was too!

 

[kill]

We just have a swinging hung gate in the heifers loose house shed and pop them behind the gate and squeeze them gently for a few seconds one at a time . 5 were AI’d that way this morning and fairly sure it was done by @happycows junior. I wasn’t actually here tho at the time as had a night away

 

[Slippery Slope]

I do believe that there is an agenda to make animal husbandry too onerous in terms of regulations, so that the farmed numbers decline significantly over the next few years to satisfy everyone from the vegetarians and vegans to the climate brigade, all of whom have very significantly more influence than farmer Bloggs.

Where is the meat and milk to come from then? Well there is also a big lobby for just eating less meat, along with the imminent competition from non-meat-meat and milk substitute. The rest can be imported, because it comes not from the man on the Clapham omnibus's back yard, so his conscience would be clear and it will tick a lot of Britain's declared 'environmental targets'.

So when’s your sale then? Or are you going to just keep serving heifers just in case? Talking the job down doesn’t really help anyone does it.

 

[Cowabunga]

So when’s your sale then? Or are you going to just keep serving heifers just in case? Talking the job down doesn’t really help anyone does it.

If you think my view has any effect on the future of the UK livestock industry, you are severely deluded.

 

[Slippery Slope]

If you think my view has any effect on the future of the UK livestock industry, you are severely deluded.

Don’t flatter yourself!

 

[som farmer]

funnily we have just been given a 3 stall bespoke ai crush, which we don't need..........Out crush and handling system is central. I would have suggested hanging a gate 2ft out from a wall, dead easy, walk them in, closing the gate. We use the same for calving cows, works a treat, learn't that from my practical college year out, 1975, still using.

 

[Cowabunga]

Don’t flatter yourself!

Have you some comprehension issues?