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    There's better ways than this to start calving

    black mastitis in two yr old 8 weeks be for calving not good at all.
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    There's better ways than this to start calving

    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
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    Anyone feed the Rice hay last year?

    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
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    Australian Talk.

    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
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    Australian Talk.

    yes mel , smallest british breed , and the south devon is the biggest. E
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    Australian Talk.

    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.
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    Australian Talk.

    merry christmas to all, 1" of rain chrissy eve , hope all is wel coln, ern b.
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    Jersey Bull

    when you say magic wand , do you mean ampule it is abit like a rocket shape if so just thore the same as a straw in water .
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    Whole Bunch of Red Calf pics

    go the red .
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    The 4H Prospects

    66 for me, too.
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    I need some "definitions" help

    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.
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    SOME Wild Horse Cost!

    why not dog meat or pet food , just an aussie asking,
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    Loomix

    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.
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    Changing The Light Bulb

    i get payed to change them so why do it for nothing ? any payment is good. :banana:
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