No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Lost a good nearly weaned (on oad) WHx heifer calf due to CCN (Cerebrocortical necrosis) last week and I never heard/come across it before. At first I thought she might have diphtheria cause she wouldn't suck the teat feeder but her mouth/tongue was clean and there wasn't a smell. She showed meningitis type symptoms the next day and we phoned our Vet. She along with her comrades had access to hay and barley straw and was getting calf nuts twice a day.

I've just had a look through the search option on this new site for "ccn in calves" and all it shows are the threads with the word "calves". I really hope the search option improves as there are an awful lot of helpful posts that maybe lost in the ether.

I got my hedge cutter man in earlier in the week and got him to do one run with the head out flat facing the ground around any hedge that has electric wire. I never saw a year for such growth in grass and nettles etc from the hedges.

I got a bad outbreak of it years ago, calves were out on newly sown grass, Vet told us to change them to older weedier pastures and it stopped. occuring , but if I didn't cop them in the early stages I couldn't save them.

Them running blind through the electric fences was aright pain, Land was ten years plus in tillage so minerals might have been lacking. brain turns to jelly due to some vit b deficiency

Some morning here. Had a large group of scramblers and bikers come through our land via a bog road. Fair noise. Called guards- wanted to do nothing until more arrived. I spoke to them and they were apologetic, claimed the satnav sent them down the road through gates and electric wire. But when I went to check gates and everything, a cow was going nuts. She couldn’t find her 5 month old heifer.

I eventually found her in a bog hole with just her head and tail up. Took some effort to get her out. Thanks god for the hay knife. Just bought a lock and a load of signs. Fit for nothing now.

Pure luck really. The cow was about a km away looking as the rest of the cattle had gone there. I was just heading home for the tractor to cover the ground quicker as I’ve the young lads for the evening and I said I’d do those few acres by foot first, there was a tiny bit of pawing on the ground and there she was. She couldn’t budge.

Was there no talk of reparations for the damage caused. Did the guards record their names etc ??

if they did I’d be chasing them for some compensation for few spools of wire of nothing else.

Mighty hot out there folks.

don’t forget the sunscreen and wear a hat if ya can.

knocking in a few posts earlier and it was draining.

Anything over 20c is a waste.

grand for townies, but for anyone trying to work it’s uncomfortable

They’re on old pasture

Looks like possibly crypto from bird droppings on the trough from left over nuts.

Giving them powder for dehydration

owjob? owout? :)

I suppose the difference is that you are on holidays and have a different mindset - no cattle or livestock to look after. It's different when we're at home and we have to work in really warm weather. We were doing a bit of fencing earlier and I quit at about twelve o'clock as it got way to warm. Having said that I wouldn't mind if someone handed me a daiquiri and some tapas now 🙂

Blowout…. Not many of the other things off rocks in north Clare. 😅