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.
sorry , know woman with simalar name who breeds shorthorns as well,,valley veiw,, coln hope to get to your place some time just had daughters 21st and horse shows to contend with but will make it one day soon. ern.
well done on your sales, question have you ever lived in victoria ?? or what is your stud name . my handle gives me away if you know me hoping to hear. brightspark.