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Originally Posted by davemac
Your farm looks massive, and now up to date with solar panels, with all that sun, looks like free leccy.
Operating theatre, is that normal for a farm ?
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Not at all -most just operate cows in a stall - hard to keep things sterile though. You'd be surprised how many operations we have during the year - not too many Caesarians luckily but a lot of umbilical hernias in calves, suturing after difficult calvings, dislocations of the abomasum are the most common problem and in the seven years we've been on this farm I've seen two amputations of part of a cows foot. We have also had some torsions of the intestine but generally if the cows get this they go to be butchered - very sad. Occasionally the vet does an autopsy if a cow dies unexpectedly.
It is a very big farm now -milking 400 cows a day -altogether there are about 1100 animals. It's rather like looking after a village full of people but about 40% of them are pregnant all time so it's a lot of work keeping on top them all! In the office I'm in charge of registering births, deaths and marriages
