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Got to the four month old calves today and found one of them calmly walking in small circles. She probably did this, persistently for five to ten minutes while I gathered the rest of the group up... I did go try to encourage her to join us a couple times, but she'd just move away a little and...

got enough cows calved to start supplying milk for the new season... just need to wait for the colostrum to clear up, so about four days from now.

I thought this might be of interest to some of you who aren't all-grass producers. I can't say NZ dairy farming is mostly all-grass any more - the recent drought years have pushed a lot of dairymen who normally wouldn't buy feed, into buying it. And once they start they generally don't stop...

Been trying to get to emails for nearly an hour, after half an hour tried to get to facebook to notify the person I'm trying to e-mail that I can't check/send e-mails right now but will try again later, sixteen attempts to open facebook and I gave up. But I can still navigate Cattle Today at...

Sent some cull cows for slaughter shortly before Christmas. I guess the mail got delayed. One of them graded prime and made $1200, the others averaged nearly $900. Just average dairy cows, around 900lb liveweight. I've never seen prices like that in eight years of owning a dairy herd. The...

Temperamental connection isn't letting me follow any links: https://www.google.co.nz/search?output= ... very&btnK= but the summaries look pretty bad. Got a cow injured her tail on Christmas day, lost a lot of blood. The rest of the herd were chasing her around and riding her and since she was...

I've got a few straws in the bank that have been there five years now. Handled twice a year by my AI company, transferring from their storage to my bank and vice versa. Could those be considered good to use? I was planning tossing them but wouldn't mind putting a few in cows first, if the...

Like the creature drowning in the calf milk bucket this morning. Thinking it was a bird, I grabbed at what I thought was the tail to haul it out, couldn't get a grip on what I realised wasn't the tail end so I just scooped it up in the palm of my hand and found myself holding a very large mouse...

I've never used them before. What do people recommend? I know where to get estrotect patches, kamars or there's these things: https://webshop.lic.co.nz/cws001/catalo ... cale=en_NZ Trying to pick out cows that are not showing visible signs of heat when observed twice daily, or getting their...

Happens every year... AI'd eight cows this morning. Two of them were seen riding like crazy. The rest of them... five seen mounted once, minimal other signs of heat, one lost most of her tailpaint through the night no sign at all of heat. I'm trying to listen to that reassuring voice that...

Just wondered for those of you that rear calves on milk replacer, how much it takes to raise one calf. I got some bags yesterday to mix with the whole milk I'm giving my younger calves, since I'm rearing a few more heifers than my contract permits. To say the instructions on the back of the bag...

...about your management policy for cow tails "I try to avoid them" :dunce: is not the correct answer. Just thought that might help the next person who thought that was their management policy.

Five year old cow, due on the eighth of the month, she was chasing my dog round the paddock this morning so I guess from now on I'll pick up the dog on the way to the late calvers *after* I've seen to the springer cows. Was going out this eve so I checked her just after four pm. Down. Went to...

Just thought it might be worth clearing up a couple points with the more experienced guys on the board. I read in a newspaper article the other day some expert saying you couldn't breed on 'maybe' heats if the cow might be pregnant because you could lose the pregnancy. Now the way I understood...

I started out about a decade ago setting up my own herd by taking all the savings I had at the time to buy and rear dairy heifer calves. Two years later I took those in-calf heifers, and some cows purchased with a bank loan, to another farm to milk them. In those years, I had complete...

Down to four HolsteinFriesian cows in the herd with no purebred heifers born last spring or the spring before. They're a dying breed here. I'm planning to put the younger ones to HolsteinFriesian while they're still young enough for big calves but I can see that quite soon every black and...

Top score on classification that is, she was equal top for production with another two at the first herd test but the other two finished up 1 + 2 and 103 tested poorly on the remaining three herd tests. She's also going to be a very late calver next year, so far from the most favoured two year...

I've got a small area by the dairy door that the cows don't graze properly in the rotation, half thinking of spraying out the grass and planting up some sort of low ground cover instead, I can throw a light fence round it to discourage them from grazing, leaving the path to the door accessible...

It turns out you can make your calves too tame... This must be the quietest group of calves I've raised yet - they come through the vet race twice a week for an oral drench, so they're accustomed to close handling and I thought they'd walk easily onto the loading race. I was right. The problem...

Back in the dry of '08, if I take silage to the cows they meet me halfway: