Safe,cheap handling of cows and calves.

[GTB]

Do you find the ewes eat the buckets or for whatever reason the lambs mainly go for them?

The ewes do eat the buckets but the lambs eat them too. They are general purpose mineral licks with the cocci treatment added so they do provide enough mag for the ewes without needing any other buckets. I don't know if the fact that the ewes eat them helps with reducing cocci in the lambs or not though. Most years they keep the cocci at bay though occasionally we do have to drench the lambs with veccoxan at marking but we never have to bring them in specifically to do that.

 

[Yale]

The ewes do eat the buckets but the lambs eat them too. They are general purpose mineral licks with the cocci treatment added so they do provide enough mag for the ewes without needing any other buckets. I don't know if the fact that the ewes eat them helps with reducing cocci in the lambs or not though. Most years they keep the cocci at bay though occasionally we do have to drench the lambs with veccoxan at marking but we never have to bring them in specifically to do that.

We have one parcel we rent and the lambs there do seem to pick up cocci and show signs.

However,they’re never really that bad but sometimes we’ll dose the dirty ones with Vecoxan.

 

[milkloss]

Well done @Yale , always good to share. We’re lucky in the respect that we don’t have to trailer them. If we disbud the calves a bit later we tend to do them in the cow crush: push four or five in there and go in with them to jab them and then manoeuvre each one to the neck brace which holds a small calf well. When they don’t have too much room it’s much easier.

 

[Yale]

Well done @Yale , always good to share. We’re lucky in the respect that we don’t have to trailer them. If we disbud the calves a bit later we tend to do them in the cow crush: push four or five in there and go in with them to jab them and then manoeuvre each one to the neck brace which holds a small calf well. When they don’t have too much room it’s much easier.

Yes we inject 5-6 in the race then pull them out to the calf crush to disbud.

 

[joe soapy]

used to load calves first, then the diahatsu fell over.
luckily the water board tractor came along with a chain and righted us again