- Location
- Lincolnshire
It's what Bank holiday weekend is for surely ?
They still bawl,Just separate and put up with noise. do it monday morning by Thursday it will be mostly quiet.As said you can not stop normal farming operations because of neighbours.,where will it end.Give a inch.Ive never used them or seen them before. Have heard of the spikes.
Whats your reason for not using them? Thanks
Quiet Weans don’t have spikes. If you buy a kind with spikes just point them to the calf’s nose. It’s the calf you want to not nurse, not really a reason to poke the cow in the udder.Thanks for the replies. Gonna look into these flaps for next year. Take it theres no risk of any funny things happening like the cow rejecting her next calf?
Mind i put a jacket on a lamb and the ewe rejected it. Took it off and she still didnt want it. Ended up with her in an adopter for 4 days
My calves run into a creep area and a separate shed through a creep gate to get away from their mums. They get all their grub fed to them in this yard. They have this for about a month, then I just shut the creep gate up and job done. Generally very little noise.
Just leave them all together, if the cows are in calf then they will wean the calves themselves, they know what they are doing.
This is what I do - don’t wean them.Just leave them all together, if the cows are in calf then they will wean the calves themselves, they know what they are doing.