I use to give a vitamin D shot , when you thought she would calve in a day or two , it is suppose to help activate the calcium in the bones it helped for me I dairied in Victoria Australia , or buy a box of cal bags as insurance ,good luck ,have fun
i fed rice straw to dry dairy cows afew yrs ago , i added urea and molasis desolved together to give it some protine , the cows servived and calved ok , it was just added work , so see your ag extention oficer . good luck . E
thank you all for the welcome ,
hi ken i do a couple of local shows , thats it now , i did melb, and canbera in the 80s to 91, with south devons , i was living in northern vic then, E
hi all , i have been lerking in the background for years , the loging finaly worked, i live on the gold coast and have some land at lismore nsw, i have bred south devons , then dairied , now breed dexters , Ern is my name.
i aggre with you abbrieveations are a pain in the butt , people are lazy , A I , artafishale intelegents or artafishale insamination , or AI All good. sorry about spelling. say what you mean.
i do not know loomix , but have fed rice staw with molasis and urea poored over it right up to calving with a mob of dairy cows, the advice in the last post sound very good, good luck.