Recent content by coalcreekfarms10

I prefer 85/15 but I will eat about any mix.

Well this is the post that I was really hoping not to have to post. The calf died sometime early this morning. He was doing so some better and was nursing on his own and finally starting to get some strength. Then around noon yesterday I noticed he wasn't doing as good and when I got to...

I band a calf asap after birth.

Last night after pretty much forcing him to suck he finally decided to do it on his own without any help. I left them together in the barn last night and separated them this morning. This evening about 5 I put the cow back in with him and he went right to her to suck. I watched him for about...

I have got him to suck him mom just a little bit this evening. I'm not giving up on them just yet.

No I totally agree and she is going for a ride. I gave the calf some milk replacer this morning and he seems to be doing pretty good considering everything he has been through. You mentioned Pedia-lyte in your post. How much do I need to give him and how often? I am going to try one more time...

He needs to hurry up and stop being discouraged. LOL

Yes, we caught the milk. I just don't understand why he won't nurse the cow but will suck the bottle dry. Could it possibly be something wrong with the calf and its nothing to do with the cow after all?

The best I could tell her milk looked perfectly normal. We got her in the heat gate again this evening to try and milk her. This time you had to pull a lot harder and it took a lot more effort to get milk to come out. But once it started milk just poured out of her and even came out on its...

Since I gave him two doses of that colostrum formula yesterday do I need to give him anymore today or just milk replacer?

When we put her in the head gate this morning she would let us try to milk her a couple of times and milk did come out but after the first few tries she started kicking at us everytime we even got close to her. During this time we also tried to put the calf on her and thats when she kicked him...

It is her 4th calf. I bought her in the fall of 2015 and she was bred then. Her calf last year she never left its side and done great with it. This year its like the total opposite.

I had a cow have a calf Friday morning the 3rd. Not long after she had the baby she went off to eat hay and never seemed to pay much attention to it. After a little while I went over to the calf to check on him and she didn't seem to care at all about the baby. So I watched them pretty closely...

It was a little while back that somebody had started a thread about a book that you could use to keep track of all the breeding info for your cattle. Can somebody tell me what book that was. I have tried to search for the thread but didn't have any luck.

I have a heifer that I bought about a year ago and she just had her first calf in early May. She was about 26 months old when she had her first calf. She was able to have the calf on her own with no trouble. I was out checking on them today and noticed the bull was after her. This is the third...