When's calving starting 2022

Great breeding and a bag of milk to boot.

Have a foreman cow myself, calved 2 days after the tb test in February, day before the reading calves a great long Ampertaine Majestic bull calf on her own. No one spotted her. By the time we did, calf was dead. Absolutely sickening. Not sure was it a puck or what from the test, or did the calf die at birth, she was a few days early, but a serious calf.

Had told myself no passengers, so she was to go, even left her go a cycle or 2, then about a month ago I gave her a straw of Pabo Peredur, she kept 1st time. I don’t think it was her fault so I gave her 1 last chance, and with foreman straws making the money the are at the moment, she was worth the go.

Still sickened over her calf every time is look at her!

With calves like that we would give a "pink" tablet if it was still showing the following day. Did you check the temperature, the nose cold, still drinking milk.

We’re the born inside or outside, have you had any bother with crypto? Once calves are out, sucking and in good form i wouldn’t be too worried, heavy rain like today seems to make young calves scour plenty. Do you vaccinate cows for Rotavirus?

I think I’d take a sample of dung from the second pic calf before treatment and get it tested at the vets.

Yes they were born inside and let out after a day or two as soon as weather allowed.

Cows were done with Rotavec Corona alright. Have had a touch of blood scour in most calves this year but none really sick from it.

I have been trying to get a heifer from this lady for the last 6 years, finally got a nice little Shorthorn out of her. She is a lovey quite cow, vet even tested her last year without putting her up the crush as she was too wide on the point of calving..

Progressive Genetics EMS, its all that was in the tank that day...

Quick question for ye folks, had a bull calf born there about 10 days ago, had trouble getting him to suck (tongue hanging out for a few days and he just seemed lethargic and dull). Tubed him twice and vet gave him selenium injection I think it was to get him sucking. He’s still dopey and looked to be dehydrated last night, gave him electrolyte’s and bottle fed him 2L of milk cause he’s not sucking the mother enough, you could tell by him the belt was never full and she had a big bag of milk.

anything else I can do for him? Or just keep with the electrolytes and bottle feeding him until he gets the energy/knack to suckle properly?

Yea he would have gotten about 2.5L when he was born and then tubed 3L the following morning. Had the vet out there, a naval infection and dehydrated as a result. Electrolytes and tablets for a couple of days and injections for a week will hopefully bring him round. Still doesn’t solve the sucking issue directly but hopefully it will come once he clears the other issues. There’s always something to go wrong with the buggers!

Last one calved of the year calved last night. Pretty good calving season just one loss out of 25 ( cow picked on another calf and clattered him while in the yard - just one of those things). Started on 4th April. All calved outdoors and only had to assist one with just the ropes.

Calving box now needs to be cleaned out and powerhouses😉😉. Few drains and reseed 2 acres and its done.

She’s Mullary Intrepid, out of a sympa cow, with ferry in the background too. Great cow, fertile and a pure pet. Nice to get a heifer off of her after a run of bulls

For me it depends on a few things...back breeding of the calf, how have previous generations of calves from that bloodline turned out. Usually you're given 90 days to register a calf I think so I tend to give them time to see how they turn out, also depends on the late penalties for your society. If they only penalise you a fixed amount after those 90 days you might be better off waiting for a year or more to register it if you're going to be penalised the same as if the calf was 91 days old, least then you know if it's a good or bad animal. I tend to only register the best bulls I have as I think it does the breed a disservice to register every bull and you end up diluting the quality of Pedigree bulls. I shudder when I see some bulls go through marts and the auctioneer calls out it is pedigree registered and the bull would not be up to scratch at all yet because he's registered fellas expect bigger money.

I register mine on agfood.ie. Under "Pedigree Name of Calf" put the full name like say "Ballydehob Mike" where Ballydehob is the herd prefix. You need to set this up with the association first.

How long do lads normally leave in the stitches after a section.. its years since I had one before but I thought it was about a month.

The stitches break and fall out naturally

I had a section this year and vet told me to take them out myself after 3 weeks.

Last one finally calved Saturday. Knell bull of PD lim heifer. 56kg, should have being a section but easy say that after. Thought he wasn't going to make it but vet gave him few shots. Vet surprised he survived the Sat night even. Finally up sucking today.

Vet was cheaper than a doctor 👨🏽‍⚕️ 😂😂😂😂

I ve a cow due to calf, there is a lot of flys about just wondering could you put Spot On on her and her so close to calving?

have a 17 month old heifer springing nicely - she’s about 400kgs and a small heifer. Absolutely delighted with it 😡😡

i had no bull on farm since 2 July 2021 til March of this year so she must have been out kissing the neighbors bull.

dont have a bare paddock but anyways be hard to put her in anywhere on her own. Hard to know how far away she is but probably inside a month anyways.

any suggestions.