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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 1152644" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>One beautiful dry day yesterday and today it's back to cold and soggy <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /> </p><p></p><p>Twenty cows calved, intervention rates are higher than they've ever been, but minor hassles nothing critical. More than half the calves have had their first feed from a bottle because they're not figuring out what an udder is for within a few hours.</p><p>Four assisted calvings, all of them easy pulls with the calf presented correctly, no apparent reason for the calf not being born except the first and fourth were cows showing signs of milk fever. The second was a normal-sized twin out of a heifer, didn't check for a second and she had it on her own later but only the first one was born alive.</p><p>The live twin is quite enough of a handful!</p><p></p><p>Seeing vet vehicles driving past several times a day and it should only be the coastal farms that have even started calving yet... on Sunday too. I figured they must be coming past this way especially to admire my cows and calves in the roadside paddock. </p><p></p><p>I guess you learn something new every year. For all I've said the science 'proving' dairy calves hardly ever get enough colostrum on their own has got to be nonsense, this year my calves are doing the utmost to prove it. One of them messed around for half the day without getting a feed, I gave her a bottle she emptied it then went straight to her mum and started sucking like she'd been doing it for months :shock: </p><p></p><p>Grazing the cows round the sheds at night and one of the new mothers was kicking up a fuss for hours, she went quiet then I walked through them after midnight and she realised again that her calf was missing, and kept it up till daybreak.</p><p>I found her calf this morning piled up with another two in the corner of the hayshed, out of the wind and rain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 1152644, member: 9267"] One beautiful dry day yesterday and today it's back to cold and soggy :o Twenty cows calved, intervention rates are higher than they've ever been, but minor hassles nothing critical. More than half the calves have had their first feed from a bottle because they're not figuring out what an udder is for within a few hours. Four assisted calvings, all of them easy pulls with the calf presented correctly, no apparent reason for the calf not being born except the first and fourth were cows showing signs of milk fever. The second was a normal-sized twin out of a heifer, didn't check for a second and she had it on her own later but only the first one was born alive. The live twin is quite enough of a handful! Seeing vet vehicles driving past several times a day and it should only be the coastal farms that have even started calving yet... on Sunday too. I figured they must be coming past this way especially to admire my cows and calves in the roadside paddock. I guess you learn something new every year. For all I've said the science 'proving' dairy calves hardly ever get enough colostrum on their own has got to be nonsense, this year my calves are doing the utmost to prove it. One of them messed around for half the day without getting a feed, I gave her a bottle she emptied it then went straight to her mum and started sucking like she'd been doing it for months :shock: Grazing the cows round the sheds at night and one of the new mothers was kicking up a fuss for hours, she went quiet then I walked through them after midnight and she realised again that her calf was missing, and kept it up till daybreak. I found her calf this morning piled up with another two in the corner of the hayshed, out of the wind and rain. [/QUOTE]
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