Search results for query: *

I've only taken Progressive Dairy for a couple of months. They are funded by dairy industry adds. There is an online division but mine is paper. The have a whole lot of adds and some for those carousel parlors with photos. Don't explain how they run. Wow, cows get on because enjoy the ride...

Speaking of dairies - I subscribe to Progressive dairy magazine. Subsription is free and they send one twice a month. It has great and useful articles. Cows are being milked on giant robotic carrousels. about 80 or more cows all facing inward, go once around and step off. All the cows are facing...

People answered on keepingafamily cow that the problem with putting long hoses on the Surge and setting it off to the side are pump pressure problems giving cows mastitis and very difficult to clean ( by hand) long hoses. I have a metal cannula but I'm not using it. It freaks me out. Sure a...

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

I'm glad we sold the Texas ranch. The landscape was getting black with hogs. One afternoon I counted 35 piglets with several sows. They would come at night and tear up the lawn right next to the house. Also nice to move away from fire ants, yankees and Californians. I ate some feral hog once...

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...

Yet the Arabs milk the cow camels. "Female camels typically reach sexual maturity around their third birthday and will mate by age 4 or 5. In comparison, though male camels start to rut at age 3, they do not achieve full sexual maturity until around age 6. " So in about a year that young...

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...

That looks like a really great and fun event. Do male camels need to be neutered? Are they mean?

OK here's a pasture peeve. A neighbor's (not our neighbor)'s fence would 'conveniently' break every year so the incredibly well bred bull from the ranch next door would come in and breed his cows. No tree fell on it, it looked like it was cut. No telling what venereal diseases he caught from...