Teat sealing heifers.

[Barmyfarmer]

Putting in cubicle mats has made our heifers lie in cubicles alot quicker

 

[s line]

Did this for 10 days, probably retrained half of a group of 14

You are trying. Place where i used to work at, we really struggled to train the in calf heifers in the cubicles.
Don't know what went wrong with them. But they wouldn't have it.
He sold up 3 months later. 🫣

 

[Spudley]

We have an automatic scraper in our heifer shed and I run it every hour for the first couple of days, it doesn't take them long to realise its better to get up out of the way.

 

[Iron150]

Before we had auto scraper we used to block the gate with some muck and fill passage with water, worked well

 

[crashbox]

We use a squeeze crush, can do 20 an hour easy, even sit on a stool to do it. Just squeeze them up and open the door, quiet as you like. Decent squeeze crush is just a brilliant tool for keeping an animal quiet. We were having horrendous calving time mastitis in heifers, almost a third affected, in our autumn herd linked to serious wart issues. It was so depressing to see, and each year was getting worse than the last. Teat sealing 6 weeks pre calving has almost totally stopped the problem.

Is that on a spring or autumn herd?

I get the impression might be more worthwhile in Spring herds, as probably calved indoors, whereas autumn herds on standing hay in a dry field are a bit cleaner?

 

[farmer on a bike]

Is that on a spring or autumn herd?

I get the impression might be more worthwhile in Spring herds, as probably calved indoors, whereas autumn herds on standing hay in a dry field are a bit cleaner?

Autumn herd,

 

[AGN76]

I went on a trip to Norn Iron and a farm there had little heifers tied (?) in stalls with a hayrack in front of them. Probably illegal now but a great idea