When's calving starting 2023

Sh1tty day here. Had a heifer die here earlier. I jacked the calf and she put out the bed. Not that hard of a pull. Calf average to small size. First time ever here having a prolapse. Got bed sheet and put it under it. (Tip from here one time.) Vet came and put it in. !0 mins after he left, she died. I got 1/2 liter from her and tubed the calf. Got more beastings from a local dairy guy and tubed that too.

Thanks. Well calf was cold last night when I tubed it. Cold nose, shivering. Neighbour was waiting for cow to calf to get fresh stuff. I put calf under infrared lamp all night. He jumped up this morning when he saw me. Lovely and warm again. For anyone that doesn't have an infrared lamp, get one. Super job to put heat into them.

Not good Base, hang in there, things will get better

The Vet is open for an hour in the morning so I ask for an injection for her.

What the hell? Put this girl in for calving at the top of the cubicle shed, as tight for sheds. Bar was there to let some young weanling get in there to lie away from the cows. Got her out anyway and she just calved with 20 mins of getting her out.

Just as well we didn’t put the calving aid on DoneDeal

Lovely calf that hard to beat the curls!

bit of a mixed day today, dad rang me to see was I home from work yet I said aye I’m 5 mins away. A yearling heifer broke her back leg maybe bulling and he had to get the vet to put her down. Lovely muscly heifer from one I bought a couple of years ago. Very disappointed. I went down in the tractor to pull her out if the field for collection. An hour later this girl fired out this nice lively wee heifer calf. Tough break, we thought leaving th down the road at the weekend we’d have the same amount all summer

Thanks pal. Aye ach I never even asked that all was done by the time I got home. Don’t think that could happen if she wasnt fit to get into a trailer and it wasnt fair to let her suffer. Very hard thing to happen a young wee one like that. Aw as long as it’s outside the house.

Aw there likely would have been ways and means but its that much a gunk either way I just wanted her away.

Bad luck with the naval Sean, a sickner, will you try another calf on her?

My Still born Probly died in last few hours, had handled her and feet were inside opening but head was elbow length in. Presumed she just needed and hour or two to push calf up higher, pulled with ropes after 2 hours but dead as dodo.

Well your happy enough to ship her off with no hassle so go with that. At least you've the line still with last year's heifer

A update on the heifer and her adopted bull calf. The calf got an awful scour with bloody flecks through it within a three or four days so I treated him with electrolytes four times daily and a half a sachet of suplha no.2 powders once daily. It was touch and go with him for a couple of days as he was too weak to suck the heifer but we also bottled fed/syringed a litre or so of milk from her trice daily - I also put a calf rug on him to help him maintain his temperature. I brought him to the Vet to get an IV drip and the Vet added bread soda to the drip (never seen it done before) and it made a huge difference - because I was treating him with sulpha powders the Vet didn't do a scour test. Thankfully he has turned the corner, is bouncing around the pen and sucking freely from the heifer. I'm going to leave them in the shed for a few more days until the weather settles before letting them out into the small paddock behind the house to keep an eye on them.

Had a 3rd calving pbnr LM cow by ZAG calve yesterday morning. We bought her incalf to a LM as a heifer and she was tight calving with the jack. Last year she calved a bull calf unassisted to the stock bull. We had to jack the bull calf out as she wasn't making any progress. Unfortunately she put her calf bed out about five hours later and we had to get the Vet for her. Cow and calf are fine but unfortunately she is another one for feeding.

Well lad, I have a cow at note now about to have her third calf. AS a heifer she calved on slats and put the calf bed out overnight so it had come away out by the time we got to her and got the vet. She calved no bother herself last year and had a heifer calf. I'll update you about how she gets on this year so it's fingers crossed. She always has a lovely muscly calf but not overly growy and now a bit late so ill see what she has this time and if it's not a great calf she will be let on too but for another reason. Older cows if they put the calf bed out were culled I can think of 2 off the top of my head going back about 5 years I think.

Have kept a few of them after, never had a problem with them.

@minerleague Sorry lad I just noticed this question. That used to be a milking parlour so yea it is a touch more narrow than would be ideal. The middle pen is small but cows can calve it in dead on, just there’s a wee slope going towards the back pen and calves can slip a bit on it. The back pen is roomy but not enough to divide even in it sometimes they lie right into the wall. I agree with above they pick their spot regardless. One time I had a small cow and she calved out through a gate into another one with a young calf. I had to chance in and get her own calf back to her and both were agitated. I went over the lane to feed a group and when I came back 45 mins later she had calved another calf out the other gate and into another cow with a calf. Same Job to do but all were fine. Since then any new cow for calving goes into an end pen!

I have a cow that’s 301 days in calf to a LM today. She’s not making much of a spring. Her udder is very slack. I never got her scanned but presumably she’s in calf. Can she go much longer than this?

The 13 month old heifer that calved 2 weeks ago,

Calf is very small but lively, think it may have found a flaw in the fencing.

The very last one calved today at lunch time. (Will be the very last one as I will sell the cows at weaning and buy in calves from next year.)