jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
Kextone boluses, warm water energy drink , temperature checks, and the rest of the new fangled things some people do to fresh calvers
is it really worth it
is it really worth it
Thin cows and 6kg of straw a day plus what ever you have to balance it don't feed grass to dry Holsteins 3-4 weeks pre calving. The biggest influence on a transition cow is lactation length 365 day calving interval and you get few problems. I like to get them off the calf and onto the milkers ration at the next milking could be in an hour.We get a few milk fevers but have not had a da for 2 years touch wood .
Don't try and move weight in dry cows it only makes things worse like dinderleat I use kextone on my fat cows can't say if it makes any difference .I think part of my problems is fat cows,anyone have a sliming group?
I was meaning a sliming group pre drying off.
Lost one of my cows last summer,while housed dry (did the splits) threw my dry cows outside and thought I'll calve them outside this year,lost one the other morning drowned in the pond,ffs they are worse than sheep.
whats the crack with these kextone things then
Kexxtone are useful to get yourself out of bother for individual animals, but are not an ongoing sustainable thing for all cows.
- Fat cows, cows that have had a DA, thin cows or cows carrying twins is where I would target them