mastitis

Hi all, hoping for some advice please. We keep around 100 continental store cattle on the farm, bought in in autumn and over-wintered in barns, turned out in April and sold the following autumn. To try something different we’ve just bought some in-calf cows with calves at foot. One cow has twin...

How do people judge if it’s weather this thing and hard start to life for them affecting them or underlying issues ? Been white dosed and got cocci dose about 2 weeks ago going by vet advice and the nemo risk forecast

Had a heifer calve 5 days ago and constantly just wants to kick the calf off when suckling. I’ve checked her mastitis and milked her out incase she was sore. I’ve given her some Endocam incase she’s in any pain. she loves the calf, she was straight up and licking and is constantly with it...

Looking to start using pruex product to “clean” water. On a borehole that is good but this will in theory populate it with good bacteria. I know there’s been other threads with positive results but are there now some long term users with pleasing results or even people that have stopped using it...

Group of ewes been out 5-6 weeks , good lambs growing well , no issue till now , just got 2 singles in (from 35) with mastitis , same in another group , that damn thunderstorm and cold wet grey day after , anyone else with issue ?

So far we’ve only had two bottle babies.. now there’s six 😖 I am struggling to get the latest ones to feed from a bottle Any tips greatly appreciated

We do over 100 pet/cade lambs every year. Far too many I know but just the way it is, lifting hoggs twins and triplets. This year seems bad for bloat in 3 week old lambs, tried all sorts, liquid paraffin, yogurt and bicarbonate soda but nothing clears them. On a milkmade machine with cool milk...

Anyone else getting a bit concerned about lack of grass growth?

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Had a ewe lamb triplets and mastitis on both sides. Had a big bag but felt soft and normal. Went to check milk and now hard and cold. She’s had a jab of Trymox and metacam and used uddermint. Since then one side has gone down. The other side is very large and firm. The coldness comes and goes...

Odd 1, last 3 days ewes been a nightmare for not wanting lambs. Be that inside or outside. Singles, twins, different breeds etc. Could it be the weather or something?

I ve had lots of triplets and quads of my second crop mules.It goes against my intuation but would I be OK leaving them with the ewe?.Plan would be to give the ewes plenty of corn and get the lambs on to creep ASAP.

We are currently building new cubicle housing for 100 cows and are at a crossroads with regards to scraping out. My dad wants to install a lely/jos slurry collector I would prefer to install Storth rope scrapers My brother would prefer to scrape the building out with the machine. Any thoughts?

Written by Brian McDonnell from Agriland On farms where calving begins in mid-January, there will now be calves between nine and 10-weeks-of-age, and it may be time to start preparing for weaning. As the breeding season approaches on farms, it is vital that farmers begin preparations and...

Any ideas? my bactos have gone absolutely nuts this past 10 days and I don't know why!

Lost the first calf here the other day, was quite sure he’d had a belly full the day he was born, cows teats were clean looking, but she has a big udder so hard to tell if it had gone down much. Calf took some gut infection, swole up and died on the 3rd day. Took her in (they’re on the hill)...

Lambed a ewe last night and the lamb,although very bright,seems unable to suck on the teat.I milked her out and tubed the lamb and repeated 3 hours later.The colostrum/milk was fine.Went to do it a third time and the milk was pink from,I assume,a little blood in it.The udder is soft and...

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/scotland-new-calving-interval-of-410-days-added-to-ssbss.407024/ Current Scottish calving index figures

I don't think this Shearling has reared a lamb before, she may have lambed & lost. Very poor Mother, have to hold her to let the lamb feed. One teat works great the other appears to have skin over the teat opening, no way in. I've used Oxytocin on ewes in the past with just a drop of milk &...