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- Sun Apr 12, 2009 4:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Dates
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6831
Our Salty is a son of your bull then. His father was Hiyu Salty Rambler 4th. Salty Pioneer is a non-carrier as well. His calves averaged 26 kgs at birth, whereas another bull we are using is a smaller non-carrier bull, who produces much smaller calves, which are usually born only a day or two off t...
- Sun Apr 12, 2009 4:06 am
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: New born calf advice please
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15252
- Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:56 am
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Dates
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6831
- Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:31 am
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Dates
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6831
I allow them 2 weeks before their due date, to 2 weeks after their due date. Anything outside that and the due date is incorrect. It must have been either a previous cycle or a later cycle to the cycle observed. One of our bulls consistantly threw calves that were born 10 days to 2 weeks earlier th...
- Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:58 am
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: The Great British Menu
- Replies: 56
- Views: 43867
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: The Great British Menu
- Replies: 56
- Views: 43867
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: DEADLY NEW COMPUTER VIRUS! - Warning!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2506
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Spring? - Well it feels like it!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6478
Our Autumn is going well. Lovely sunny weather, could probably do with a day of rain actually and the day time temps are still up in the high 20s. Night time temps are down to 10 degree C, but the soil temp is remaining in the high teens, so the grass is still growing nicely and should stand us in ...
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Hung Carcass and Dry Meat
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9253
Leaving it up to the butcher as to how long to hang a carcass for, is good advice. I also ask him to choose which cuts would be best from each part of the animal, according to its age. We eat a lot of our older Dexters (I don't like to waste meat) and I let the butcher decide which cuts of meat are...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Castrating Bulls for beef
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7172
We've had a bull castrated at well over a year, by the vet and later sold him as a 2 year old at the sales yards. We didn't eat him ourselves. He was only partially entire because I didn't ring him correctly as a calf (one of my first efforts) and the vet had to complete the job after it became obv...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: drinking water - Do your cows lap?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11287
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Merrimaker up and running
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5327
The arrival of every calf is special. Some arrivals are more memorable than others, especially if things go wrong. I had a heifer decide that her new born calf was the devil incarnate and she had to kill it. It took me a good hour of holding the mother off and calming her down before maternal insti...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 6:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Calendar
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6992
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: Calving advice, please. - Calf due soon!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 20900
Glad we don't have to report calvings that arrive more than 10 days early. The calves of our first herd sire (of Salty bloodlines) threw claves that frequently arrive 10 to 14 days earlier than a normal gestation. They did this every year, so I just got used to subtracting a week or two from the es...
- Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Board
- Topic: dairying
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15861
Quite right Ann, the dam and granddam of a bull is VERY important. After all, its his daughters that we're interested in. For my part though, I'm not interested in fostering extra calves onto my cows (we've got 20 cows at the moment) as its too much like hard work. I'm more interested in a good sha...