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Bottle calf - weaning herself...??
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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1678131" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>I understand. You are still feeding because you enjoy it. That is a perfectly acceptable reason.</p><p></p><p>I kept a bottle calf as a cow back when the kids were still little. I put her out with the herd at about 4 months and she was on grass only until we started feeding in the fall. Then she got the same hay as the rest. She never really would eat the calf starter I tried to give her before she went out with the herd anyway. She preferred grass. </p><p></p><p>I looked up her records and I see she went on to produce 8 calves before I culled her for hoof rot. The main reason I kept her was, I thought the kids were attached. She was a real pain in the butt. She wouldn't move when you wanted and I remember one time when I was on crutches and tried to get her to move along. I poked her with the crutch and she turned around and pushed me over. She was never angry mean, but she knew she was bigger and she did what she wanted. When we shipped her I called my son, thinking he would be sad. By then he was in college. He said "it's about time. I hated working with that B....." I've never kept a bottle calf as a cow since. She was a pain from the start. We tried to halter break her as a calf. She would lay down on her side as soon as the halter went on and refuse to get up. I'll admit this is the only calf we ever tried to halter break and we did not know what we were doing. I have halter broke plenty of foals though, and never had an issue like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1678131, member: 9933"] I understand. You are still feeding because you enjoy it. That is a perfectly acceptable reason. I kept a bottle calf as a cow back when the kids were still little. I put her out with the herd at about 4 months and she was on grass only until we started feeding in the fall. Then she got the same hay as the rest. She never really would eat the calf starter I tried to give her before she went out with the herd anyway. She preferred grass. I looked up her records and I see she went on to produce 8 calves before I culled her for hoof rot. The main reason I kept her was, I thought the kids were attached. She was a real pain in the butt. She wouldn't move when you wanted and I remember one time when I was on crutches and tried to get her to move along. I poked her with the crutch and she turned around and pushed me over. She was never angry mean, but she knew she was bigger and she did what she wanted. When we shipped her I called my son, thinking he would be sad. By then he was in college. He said "it's about time. I hated working with that B....." I've never kept a bottle calf as a cow since. She was a pain from the start. We tried to halter break her as a calf. She would lay down on her side as soon as the halter went on and refuse to get up. I'll admit this is the only calf we ever tried to halter break and we did not know what we were doing. I have halter broke plenty of foals though, and never had an issue like that. [/QUOTE]
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