Mitch Cooper

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284 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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Talking Dairy · In 10: The simple check that can sharpen your down cow plan · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

Normally within sort of ten, fifteen minutes they're they're up and about.

So any cow that hasn't responded quite quickly to treatment should probably get a cow cover.

Yeah, for gonna move are it's obviously a pretty big exercise.

They're big animals to move.

So using something like a tractor bucket or certainly not hippopters and not by themselves, you know, they need sort of full body straps to be moving them.

And ideally they're moving under their own motion and you're just sort of helping support them.

Preference, I think, is if if it's going to be hard to move them, it's probably better to manage them in place.

But if you've got a good strategy for moving then

then moving them to a dedicated place is is a better way to manage them.

It can be quite challenging is is the short answer.

Tractors are pretty much always involved and the bucket of a tractor is probably one of the the better ways to do as long as you're obviously very careful that she's not gonna sort of try and jump out mid movement.

Very, very inclined to avoid the use of hip lifters where at all possible and certainly not by themselves.

So there needs to be ideally a a sling involved.

Yeah, they can really damage the pelvis and you can turn what was otherwise a a down cow that might have responded quite well to treatment into a down cow that's actually sustained quite a bit of injury um from hip lifting and now is gonna be much harder to get up.

Yeah, so you want to be rolling, you know, ideally as often as practical on your farm, at least sort of three or four times a day, uh rolling onto different sides.

But, you know, almost whenever you're driving past the paddock or or setting a dedicated routine to try and roll them onto each side as often as possible, they sustain quite a bit of muscle damage just from being down.

So being able to roll them onto the side that's not been lay on for several hours can help just get a bit of blood flow back.

back to that muscle and get that muscle moving again.

You do want to be lifting them intermittently as well, not just rolling and lifting them using hip lifters and ideally a chest strap just to give them some ability to hopefully bear some weight on their own limbs for a little bit and get some time off those muscles on the ground.

But you certainly never want to be lifting them in a way where you're sort of, you know, hanging them from the hip lifters and they can't maintain their own weight.

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