Today in Pictures

[Blaithin]

I wonder if there’s a lab that you can send samples to yourself.

Easy to draw blood to test for other things and it’s way cheaper without getting the vet out.

I’ve never really paid attention with the labs I use.

[furrowtickler]

Contrast in colours
better rain today and for the next week

[furrowtickler]

For some crops here like this barley it’s too late unfortunately

[TSIPP]

I wonder if there’s a lab that you can send samples to yourself.

Easy to draw blood to test for other things and it’s way cheaper without getting the vet out.

I’ve never really paid attention with the labs I use.

I didn’t get a vet out, basically the vet charged an hour at the clinic, I’m not sure what an hour is worth, drawing blood isn’t a big deal but five tiny liver samples from each cow would definitely be something I’m not ready for, basically take in a handful of cows and if they are all deathly low on copper they all will be low. basically a closed heard and calving 6 months of year is playing me out, a little more than 30 more to calve out, the weird thing is a bunch of the cows bag up and loosen up and it all goes away and four months later she calves, hormones are still out of place and a major copper deficiency won’t be fixed quickly. I find it interesting that the cows are high in selenium, they shouldn’t be, I don’t know if it was the co-op minerals or not.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

How is it possible that livestock survived and procreated when the pioneers first arrived here, given the known mineral and vitamin deficiencies we see in modern times?

Did we deplete the soils this fast?

Are the minerals tied up due to chemicals/fertilizer?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I found it. Mark purdey was the organic farmer who had an alternative theory for bse.

In his later papers on BSE, Purdey suggested that a combination of high manganese and low copper in the soil, together with high environmental oxidizing agents, might "initiate a self-perpetuating free radical mediated neurodegenerative disease process (e.g., a TSE) in susceptible genotypes." He also argued that transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs or prion diseases) are linked to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.