Rod
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I've got a hereford that has too much milk and she has weaned her calf. Her bag is enormous and looks awfullly painful. Is there something I can give her to dry her up?
From Bez's post on the ugly cow a month ago:
Every year she calves out on her own and I have to run her into the squeeze to get the calf started. The calf is healthy, it just does not know how to latch onto those big tits. We have to teach it. Her tits are so big I cannot get my hand around them and we have to shoot her with Salix and Predef to dry her down a bit. She produces so much milk her bag has become quite - no - extremely over sized and to watch her walk for the first couple of weeks after calving is almost painful.
milkmaid":3t2w7dco said:Yep. Had to run a search to find it...
From Bez's post on the ugly cow a month ago:
Every year she calves out on her own and I have to run her into the squeeze to get the calf started. The calf is healthy, it just does not know how to latch onto those big tits. We have to teach it. Her tits are so big I cannot get my hand around them and we have to shoot her with Salix and Predef to dry her down a bit. She produces so much milk her bag has become quite - no - extremely over sized and to watch her walk for the first couple of weeks after calving is almost painful.
Boss hasn't ever given anything to make them dry up, so I don't have experience in that department. Only place I'd heard of it was here.
Just dried up 18 this morning using Quartermaster and Orbesol, along with a shot of Triangle 9.
born2run":a9c9cb40 said:Edited to add that my coworker vanished and did other things while I was drying off cows. I mentioned that he could at least give the Triangle 9, but he shrugged it off and vanished again. It took me a full 30 min. to get everything done.
milkmaid":3issftny said:born2run":3issftny said:Edited to add that my coworker vanished and did other things while I was drying off cows. I mentioned that he could at least give the Triangle 9, but he shrugged it off and vanished again. It took me a full 30 min. to get everything done.
Uh oh. :shock: :lol:
That actually sounds sort of familiar. LOL. When my boss isn't around, I'm either by myself or working with his 10 y/o son. He can be good help when he wants to, but....let's say I understand you real well. :lol: However, I can count on one hand the number of times it's really bothered me enough to mention to my boss. I know his son gets in trouble for not working...and I rather like that kid. Guess I'm a softie - don't want to see him get in trouble when it's not that much extra work on my shoulders.
milkmaid":4v4fam56 said:That's quite a few cows. What percentage of the total herd was that?
dun":24twc2b1 said:milkmaid":24twc2b1 said:That's quite a few cows. What percentage of the total herd was that?
100%
dun
msscamp":8ovq0pvq said:What is a CWT buy-out? I've never heard that term before.
dun":hnahczgv said:msscamp":hnahczgv said:What is a CWT buy-out? I've never heard that term before.
It's a bizarre and usless process in which entire dairy herds are sent to slaughter and the dairyman is reimbursed based on the bid he put in which is based on the milk production for the last year. All milkers and any cow that has ever freshened has to go. Heifers can be kept. It's a synthetic prop for milk prices, hasn;t really worked the past couple of years, doubt it will this year.
It stands for Cooperatives Working Together. It's funded through the various dairy coops, not the gov. (Directly anyway)
dun