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So can everyone give me a gut fill score, left hand side just in front of the hip. Does everyone know where I mean?Female Participant: Yeah.
Participant: Yeah.
Female Participant: Four.
Participant: Four.
Graeme: Yeah.
Female Participant: Does it mean the other five?
Graeme: Yes.
Female Participant: Five is proud, isn’t it?
Graeme: Yeah. Five is proud, so just in front of that hipbone.
Female Participant: Three to four.
Graeme: Yeah, sort of three to four. Four. You’d go around — when I shift them, when I wind up my reel, I want them so that I all go that way so I can see all the left-hand side. So I can stand there like that and I don’t have — I don’t have to even concentrate then. It seems like it’s one of the gestalt things. So I just go — yeah, oh, good. You know like so?
Female Participant: Something had moved to me. Quick.
Graeme: Yeah, it’s a little bit late for that. Yeah. But you know so, you’d stay in here until there’s a reason to shift them. There’s got to be a reason to put them in and a reason to shift them. So if they’re all like that, they obviously incredibly stressed. (Laugh)You know like so? There’s no reason to shift them. Yeah. There is no reason, is there? There’s no information here saying that you would then do the dung scores so …there’s this one here which might be slightly low but it’s got consistency. It’s not liquid, isn’t it? So it’s like a thick pea soup if we go for the food master chef. So that’s okay. You’d say, okay, you’ve got some information. I’m saying it’s a little bit lower than three but it’s not a two. Yeah. No. A two is danger.
Female Participant: A two is a squirt rather than…
Graeme: Yeah. And one is like liquid paint or so. So here we go. This is perfect.
Lyn: Right.
Graeme: Yeah.
Lyn: It’s that cow with a nice 5 gut fill?
Graeme: Yeah. Yeah. But see that’s a perfect pie. It’s got great consistency.
Female Participant: Yuck.
Graeme: Yeah like it doesn’t get much better than that. Yeah. The kids don’t let me talk about grass when I go out. I don’t understand it. Yeah. But see? Do you know the rumens going really well? She’s a classic, isn’t she? She’s what you want more of. She’s finding plenty to eat and she’s doing it well. She’s actually even got a little bit of a loose bit of rump which would usually indicate that it’s been lower at some stage.
Female Participant: The dirty area around it.
Graeme: Yeah, the dirty tail and the dirty rump.
Female Participant: Inaudible
So you’d go and check that. I’ve done things like check the pH of the urine and all that sort of stuff as well. But it’s really, you really just need to see that the dung is good and their gut fill is good and that’s enough.
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3 Responses
Enjoyed watching even though cattle is not my showing up in life at present.
Thankyou H & H
thanks Helen, very interesting. When the rain stops I’ll go out and have a look at my herd.
Oh good! But I think you’ll be the envy of many farmers who have forgotten what rain is!