Blood testing for pregnancy in the cows herd.
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Learn how to draw blood for your cows and check for pregnancy.
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This by far the most informative channel for cattle and grazing! I hope you know how much we appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Thanks
Wow, thank you!
What a smooth job of moving the cows. Scout is great, he has found his purpose and loves it. Really seemed quite calm and relaxed. The cows seem to be relaxed. Great video.
It was a great day!
Thanks Russ and Family!!!
Thank you for watching!
thanks. you can never go wrong by having a dog starring in your video.
Couldn't agree more!
Job done properly! I didn't know this method,thanks for sharing
Its cheaper than getting a vet in. Thanks for watching!
Great video. It’s great to see a whole family working together to accomplish goals. That is the way it should be but today in our “modern “ world that seems to be less and less common. Thanks again.
It is a lot less common to be together as a family. We are one of the few families that eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner together. Thanks for watching!
@@RussWilson This country would be a lot better off if more families did as you do but for the most part Americans have lost that sense of family values and once gone it is very hard to retrieve them. Thanks again for the great videos!!
@@billhickson8712 Thank you!!
Very nice job. Keep us posted on the results please.
Will do! I ll do a video on the results. Thanks for watching!
Go Scout! 🥇
He's a great dog!!
Russ- Would love to see a video about your cattle building… going over size, design, purpose of use in your operation etc.
(Came to your channel from Greg Judy & we have a black angus grazing operation on NE Ohio.)
Thanks for the good content and inspiration.
I just did a video on the barn it will be coming out soon. NE Ohio your not to far from me. Thanks for watching.
Even though your grazing management has kept the cow's out on pasture all winter. The head locks in your barn has come in handy for health checks on your cattle.
The headlocks make that job fast!! It only took about an hour. If we would have done it in a shout would have taken 6 hours.. Thanks for watching!
Fantastic topic I’ve never seen this before very cool!
Glad you liked it!
Watching Scout work is awesome.
Agreed! He loves his work.
Great job Russ. Your channel is the place I go to get usefull information. Good to see the whole family helping. The kids will learn a lot of life skills helping with the cows.
Thanks 👍
Great job , I knew where they did it & now I know how 🤪
It's not hard any one can do it.
Love the facility. That's a half dozen video idea right there. Wood chip base and compost maker for all the tree tops left over from firewood. Did you make or fab all the head catches? I'm gonna bet you made them.
I wish I made the headlocks. When we were building just didn't have time to make. Mine would be better.😀
Thanks for watching!
It is the smart cows which close the headlocks. They use their noses to test if they will be caught or not. Great job demonstrating doing a blood draw on cattle. Our local clinic tests onsite, so we have them run the test. We get results within 24 hours of draw, as we drive 30 minutes to drop off the blood samples at the clinic. Usually results same day. Most times we palpated to know which ai breeding or if cleanup bull. Also, vet can say, if twins, if ultrasounding.
Our vet charges by the hour, if we had all the animals locked up, we did over a hundred preg checks, palpation or ultrasound-depending if older or younger doc, in 7 or 8 pens in about 5 hours. We could make decisions with: days in milk, times bred, pounds of milk per day, condition of the cow,... on keep or cull status.
We have some of those smart cows. I usally run them into a tight pen and usally able to get blood that way. THank for Watching!
You have great help and a good dog that’s for sure. Is there costs savings with taking blood samples versus having a vet palpate?
There is a huge cost savings for me. Our vet charges a farm call and 8 dollars a cow. I can send the samples in and it costs under 3 bucks a cow. Thanks for watching!
@@RussWilson wow that’s a good deal!
I’ll definitely have to look into that.
Love that barn! I’d love to see some sheep videos!
We will be doing more sheep videos. Thanks for watching
Scout's doing a great job. Where's Paige...locked up again. I've seen them do that on vet shows but they don't say it's vein blood with little oxygen in it. Very interesting
Miss Paige was helping with the sheep. Thanks for watching
My 4 year old son Walker helps me move also
Another great video with information you don’t get anywhere else. It looks a lot simpler to use the head gates instead of a cattle chute and less stress for you and the cow. Do you ever use a for cattle chute for anything?
I is a lot less stressful using headgates. We sold our chute. Thanks for watching!!!
For anybody timid to do blood, if you are less stressed about milking, the milk pregnancy test is usually the same price and offered through many labs. It's accurate and 28 days also.
Me, for some reason I'd far rather milk from back than draw blood even though cows rarely kick straight back with blood test . I use kick stop if I'm worried about kicks and that holds them still. If my husband is around I do blood , if me it's milk.
Although I heat detect and ai my cows so I usually know when they are bred :)
Palpation loses more pregnancies - 5% before 45 days, so even though my husband is a vet and expert palpator , I won't do it unless necessary. I had one cow lose her pregnancy within 1 day following every preg check via palpation - that costs a lot of dollars when it sets you back 18-21 days, especially if you cull harshly for cows that breed in 30 day season.
I love your channel and so glad Greg Judy put a plug in for it!!!
If your milking the milk test is the way to go for sure. I'm not sure I could milk from my cows without getting black in blued😂👍. I don't like Palpation either cause of the miss carries. Thanks for watching!!
Our vets would warn us, if a pregnancy felt or looked weak. We would recheck those cows one or 2 weeks later to confirm status. Either the pregnancy was not right or your vet is too rough. As our lady vet always trained new male docs, handle it like you would your own nads-gently! She explained it differently to the young lady docs. And yes, some of the young docs were eventually forbidden from working on our farm, if they were not worthy of the title of doc. Tail paint is a wonderful tool for heat detection for those who have at least 2 females and want to use ai, rather than a herd bull. You can also use tail paint to know which animals have been bred by the bull to have due dates on the herd.
Do/can you use that blood draw to check for other things also, like parasites?
It's kind of like a human. There are thousands of things you can test for. Thanks for watching!!
Does the blood test work on recently conceived animals?
they have to be bred for 28 days before tests will read positive. Thanks for watching!!
At what age do you castrate your bull calves Russ?
9-12 months old is usually when we do them.
Thanks again for all your videos! How far long are your cows before you take blood samples? I took a breeding class in college on how to palpate cows to feel if they are pregnant. It’s been awhile since I done that so I might be a little rusty (around 20 years). We did them from a few months pregnant up to 7-8 months pregnant. It was a great learning experience.
What size needle, what lab and cost. Thanks
I learned how to do it about 10 years ago. But it seems so evasive palpating the cows. We just drew blood. Thanks for watching!!
We use a 20 gauge 1" needle, Lab we use is Biopryn labs and the cost is around $3 a cow. Thanks for watching!!
I had a question for pink eye. What do you do to prevent and how would you treat?
There are bunch of things we do for pink eye. Prevention is number one. The livestock are on a good mineral program to help with immunity. We cull any animals that get pink eye, this helps with there genetic resistance. We also vaccinate for pink eye. If a weak animal gets pink eye it can be spend to the healthy animals. We have not had any pinkeye in a very long time. If we do treat. We split them out of the herd put them in confinement. Treat with LA200 and spray penicillin directly in the eye. It very soothing to the eye. Thanks for watching!!
Could this method be used for sheep?
Absolutely it can be only thing you’ll need take the blood from their which isn’t to hard to do. Also works on goats and horse. Thanks for watching!
Hey Russ, I was curious if the timer would be able to release after 36 hours? I have a pasture that is a quite a few miles from my farm that I rotate every 3 days but if I could set the fence lifter in each time they would get moved every day and a half.
Yes the timer will release any time and any day of the week. Sounds like this would be perfect for you. Thanks for watching!!
How long after you have the bull in with the cow do you wait before pregnancy checking?
28 days is when you can start checking. Thanks for watching!!