HOW WE MANAGE OUR COWS AROUND CALVING!! THE TRANSITION COW!!
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2024
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I explain how we manage the transition cow. From a dry cow on silage to a grazing milking cow.
My name is Mark Collins. From growing up and working on my family farm in Ireland, I have developed a strong passion for agriculture. As people become more concerned about where their food comes from, it is vitality important that the right information is at their fingertips. Through my Instagram account and UA-cam channel, I show the day-to-day running of our grass based dairy farm and how we work hard to continuously improve our business in-line with our focus on Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability.
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You are wonderful guy
I wish visiting your dairy farm
One day in God will bless
Very interesting video mark keep up the good work 👍💪
I’m a grazing farmer Love your videos. You need to do more,all about the grass.👍🏼
Brilliant video mark. 👍
Hugely informative video tbf. I really enjoyed it.
Put up more videos
Missed your messin. 😅😅😅
Some good ideas there, sir
Sir you need some one for work on farm
Do you heat the colustrum for the newborns? If so what do you use to do it?
Those IBCs of milk for calves must be hard to clean? How do you clean it?
Yes we just fill the bottle and put it in a bucket of hot water
I am from Nepal. I studied animal science and have been working in this field for about 3-4 years. I would like to work on a cow farm in Ireland, would it be acceptable or not? If yes, what should be done?
Have you any intention in putting a shed over your outside cubicles
No plans at the moment but the pillars are there in case we want to in the future
What product do you dose the cows with. Thanks
Albex, it does fluke and worms
How much of the colostrum is not fit for calves on average do u find?
20/25%
Do you inject mastitis cows with an anti inflaitory or straight in with antibiotics?
Usually just antibiotics
Do you have good success treating the subclinical cases that you find with the paddle? I've done it and had poor success in treating them unless they have clinical signs of mastitis
@adriant900 most of the time yes but it does happen where there is no improvement
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Have you thought about collars yet?
Yes it might be something we do in the future
Having you're cows in outdoor cubicles during this horrible wet year must be very tough on your cows. Poor cows😢
Once they are fed we'll they're fine but they would rather be out grazing
I think you should cover those cubicles. It would be more comfortable for your cows. Imagine if we had snow. What a mess that would be. I have no time for outdoor cubicles. Its cruelty on cows. No matter what you say. Thanks for replying back. I am only thinking of cow welfare.
Look we have 80 outdoor cubicles out of 300 if twas up to me they'd be all outdoor more natural environment cows don't care if its pissing rain down on top of em it depends on temperature n direction of rain outdoor cubicles are better than being heaped up at a wire or ditch plus the rain washes the mats we are custodians of what we own n do n cow welfare is no 1
@@patrickbrennan6449 Cows can live perfectly well in very cold conditions, they are out wintered in snow in the US and Canada. You'd be surprised at how their coat changes and even the cattle you breed harden up when they're outdoors. They do eat more though and people house them for a lot of reasons but welfare isn't the main one. Imagine, cows aren't meant to live in house's! 😂😂🤦
@patrickbrennan6449 before we built these we trialed the 60s and the cows really liked them. Our cows are crossbred and are fairly hardy. For years we also outwintered and the cows outside always did better than those in the shed.