Vet costs.

supercow

Member
Location
Dumfriesshire
.37 ppl. Orbeseal and Metacam my biggest spends by far. No dry cow tubes or vaccines used. 3 Pd sessions but one was within annual tb test. £2664 April too April. All drugs bought on cash discount basis.
Finally see someone else that doesn't vaccinate ! You don't do ibr lepto or bvd? I don't, haven't vaccinated anything for about 3 years! I only jag the cows with rotavec at drying off. I just keep an eye out for anything, milking the cows myself I like to think I can spot anything that's going through them and get ontop of it
 
Location
West Wales
Also without barren and replacment rates its difficult to underdstand.

0.001ppl vet but 55% replacment rate...

Our vet costs are too high currently I haven’t worked it back but over 1ppl but I suspect they won’t move much with the youngstock added now. The biggest thing for me is they are in effect an occasional labour unit. I’m aiming to calve indoors this year and suspect I will see a big difference in costs
 
Is spot on on this market place?
Didn't think to check it.

Vet/med around 1ppl normally will be up a tad this year though.
Our vet costs are too high currently I haven’t worked it back but over 1ppl but I suspect they won’t move much with the youngstock added now. The biggest thing for me is they are in effect an occasional labour unit. I’m aiming to calve indoors this year and suspect I will see a big difference in costs
calve indoors? Why?
 

Dead Rabbits

Member
Location
'Merica
I'll figure this up where I currently work because I find it interesting, when I get to it.

At my former job it was ridiculously low. Somewhere in the neighborhood of .003 USD. At 25% replacement
 
Location
West Wales
calve indoors? Why?

Calving outside just isn’t working for us. We’re getting cows too fat so having too many problems and ending up wasting a load of good grass from our grazing platform feeding something that doesn’t need it.

Don’t get me wrong it works well for a lot of people but just doesn’t work for us currently is all
 

Sid

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Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Seriously not having a pop at you Sid, but do you have to take cows out of "organic" for a time after treatment, or are certain meds allowed?

They have to stay out of the tank for double or triple the standard withdrawl period. If a cow is treated 3 time in a year then they lose their organic status

From standards
You must not sell your livestock or their produce as organic if, within any one year, you treat them with more than:  three courses of (non-complementary) veterinary medicines, or  one course of (non-complementary) veterinary medicines if they are killed for meat at less than one year old. Note - excluded from this are vaccines, parasite control treatments and compulsory eradication orders. A course of treatment means all the measures you need to take to restore the health of your animal following an illness. Note - the organic status of the animal will be lost at the start of the fourth course of treatment

After the standard withdrawl period it can be fed to calves. We tend to give it to beef calves going as conventional due to tb.
 
Location
West Wales
For what reason?
Cleanliness is the biggest one I see

We found they were wasting way too much grass and that we didn’t have it clean enough after so then we had fresh cows on pasture that wasn’t clean enough etc

Also we don’t own a quad so we’re carrying or walking calves in and it really wasn’t much fun! we calves the last 5 inside and it was a dream
 
We found they were wasting way too much grass and that we didn’t have it clean enough after so then we had fresh cows on pasture that wasn’t clean enough etc

Also we don’t own a quad so we’re carrying or walking calves in and it really wasn’t much fun! we calves the last 5 inside and it was a dream
Id give calving outside another go if i was you, keep them real tight and back fence them on standing hay, can you afford to calve inside in aug? There is a poster on this thread doing 13k liters plus calving cows outside...
 
We found they were wasting way too much grass and that we didn’t have it clean enough after so then we had fresh cows on pasture that wasn’t clean enough etc

Also we don’t own a quad so we’re carrying or walking calves in and it really wasn’t much fun! we calves the last 5 inside and it was a dream
we move calves with a little box on the a frame of the scrapper tractor we can move up to 8 at once doing this. i dream of outdoor calving.
 

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