We have Shetlands - you can see lots of stuff on the website, especially in the diary.
We started in 2010 with two weaned heifer calves aged about seven months; I spent the winter halter training them and that has been a great investment of time. I still have one of the two (I sold the other a few years ago to another breeder) and she's expecting her 7th calf; I also have her daughter and her daughter's daughter plus a heifer from 2016, who's sold, three calves from this summer and the bull, plus two 2016 steers that I'm running on for beef next year. The females and the bull are halter trained.
I house the cows and bull in the winter - saves the grass from poaching - and feed them straw and some sugar beet every day. I tie them up every day to establish the habit - we milk in the summer.
We treat for worms and fluke at the appropriate time after housing - we use Closamectin pour-on for the males and maiden heifers after 7 weeks and Albex drench at the fluke dose for the breeding cows after 12 weeks. There are very few flukicides licensed for use in milking cows.
During the summer, I use Spot-on every six weeks for flies and ticks.
We vaccinate the calves with Bravoxin 10 at two and six weeks; the breeding cows and heifers get an annual booster but we don't boost the beef steers orthe bull. We don't do the bull because we change our bull every two years - the "retiring" one goes in the freezer (although our current boy is so good natured, I'd be tempted to keep him).
The cows get their feet trimmed once a year by a specialist trimmer. We tested for Johnes, IBR and Lepto a few years ago and of course we have to test for BVD every year. Our herd is BVD negative. We're not required to routinely test for TB - it's on a risk base and we're a closed herd apart from the new bull every two years (we buy a six month old bull calf and use him for two seasons). When we buy in the bull, we test for Lepto and IBR, TB if required and of course only buy from BVD negative herds.
So far, it's worked for us