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I have a metal teat cannula. It has to be boiled first. I got it for old Daphne when she had mastitis so bad in 2016. Just posted on keepingafamilycow Just wondering - Do people ever put longer hoses on Surges so it can sit on the ground next to the cow? Just asking for a friend

It turned out I didn't need cannulas, We used the just make her do it method. My husband took away one of the heavy bull panels and replaced it with a light 10' foot gate raised up on 8' wood fence posts with about 30" of free work space. She was calmer today. She was leaking milk when she...

I can't find teat cannulas for sale but I did find this. file:///C:/Users/rinky/Downloads/aabp_1999_v33_2_007_EffectsOfTeatDilators%20(1).pdf Are these the things you used or something else? Thanks I think I will get some oxytocin from the vet and put the machine on her. Have you ever used...

Not sure how fast I can get those from Jeffers but I'll order some. I'll see what we can rig up with a panel raised on one side. These are bull panels and supper heavy. Better to make that side with 2x6s? My old cow is such a dear. She walks from a way away to lick me. Such a calming presence...

Well this is what happened. This morning we put together a stanchion with heavy steel corral panels and chains fastened to the pillars of the barn. It was a sort of a 10' narrow chute some 2x4s to keep her from backing out. I went out to get her and in the pasture she was still high headed and...

Dairy cattle are not like beef they are almost like a different species. They've been selected and bred for one thing - lots of milk. This same thing would probably happen with a beef heifer if you took away her calf and tried put a milking machine on her. Perfectly good high producing...

Ack what a day. I let her lick the calf off and when she went out of the barn took the calf away because I'm not share milking, I'm bottle raising. Its a good thing I had some store bought colostrum because Honeydew would not let me touch her udder. We tubed the heifer's first feed of colostum...

Heifer calf born at 12:30 pm in a stall bedded with clean straw. Her name is Winona. Honeydew chose this place. My husband attended the birth, pulled membranes off and struck a straw in her nose. All this happened while I was doing the dishes.

In 2016 while I was gone to Oregon for a few months, Daphne was evacuated to an auction yard because of a forest fire. Her big calf was sold off her and she lay in filthy auction yard pens with open teats leaking milk. When I came back I found her with mastitis in all 4 quarters and septic. She...

In case anyone is interested today I got my old 13 year old cow AIed to Stoney, the same bull Honeydew is bred to. This morning at 5:30 am I was awakened by banging what I thought were my 2 pet rats in their cage were dragging their cardboard boxes around. I took away the boxes, went back to...

That is why I am taking this calf away as soon as Honeydew licks her off. Then Honeydew will easily forget about the calf if it hasn't suckled. I'm already keeping our German Shepherd away because she looks like a wolf. When my husband had the Texas ranch one time he saw some people stop on the...

This 'false alarm' gives me more time to work on introducing the milking routine twice a day. You would not want to suddenly put a milking machine on a freaking out heifer that just calved. I have a Surge milking machine that hangs under the belly by a strap. Now she tolerates the pump noise...

She is due around May 20, bred AI to a Jersey named Stoney. He has over 4000 daughters. I'm as nervous as a grandma who's girl is fixing to have a baby. Ladies on the keeping a family cow board say this is normal for Jersey first calf heifers. One found her heifer lying flat on the ground...

Yesterday afternoon HoneyDew was having some kind of episode. I found her lying in the breezway of the barn with a high respiratory rate, a panting breath every 2 second like a woman does when in labor. She was making little mm mm sounds. Her vulva was spreading and all pink inside. I thought...

Not only that the mostly Holstien dairy Honeydew came from is Organic (woooo) so they can get a higher price for the milk. I was looking in the dairy case at the grocery store and this grass fed organic is selling for $8 or $9 a quart. People are really working this organic thing. The profit...

These have the classic Jersey faces and bone structure. I have a heifer that came from a commercial dairy, mostly Holstein. They had some Jerseys in the herd to increase the butterfat of the milk tank. In order to breed and improve my own animals I will select Jersey show bulls because these...

Most Jerseys calves are raised on bottles and imprinted on humans, as is the custom for 100s of years. If the aggressive cow was not tame maybe she was raised among a bunch of beef cattle and learned their wild ways. Was she tame to handle?

Not all Jerseys are sweet hearts, although most are. I wonder if Travlrs sheep aggressive Jersey was a free martin. I would never put a calf in the same pasture with my kind and gentle gelding because he will chase, stomp and try to kill them.

Why are Jersey cows are so gentle and motherly while the bulls are famously aggressive? It could be that the cows have more estrogen and the bulls have more testosterone than other breeds. It sure is great to live in dairy country and not have to keep Jersey bulls. Because they arrive on the...

It is interesting that Jersey cows are so kind and motherly yet the bulls are aggressive and want to kill people.