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My calf is now one year old. I wish I had gotten the other three the dairy man offered me! She's a little taller than my dexter heifer. She leads okay. She's friendly and I think will be a great home milk cow. Now I'm scouring the internet looking for timeframes for the...

Likely for one cow it will be by hand.

I'm looking for about a gallon a day. Mostly drinking And a bit of cream for a little butter once a week. So for a family of 3 that should be plenty. I could use extra for other things but my desire is around a gallon. I'm having a hard time with a goat. I can't imagine if a cow were to be so...

I wondered if bottle feeding would make milking easier....no mama trying to hold back cream or milk for baby. I would get it all from the start.

I have a jersey calf that I work with daily. I try to lead her with a halter daily but admit that i don't always get to it but I do rub her and pet her daily, trying to make her tame and comfortable with me. She is 2.5 months old, approximately, and I recently weaned her. She is eating at least...

Thank you for all the replies. I really appreciate any help. Part of my problem is lack of experience and lack of a knowledgable person in my areas who could tell me which feed, which milk replacer and signs of illness. When you look things up online, you can find so much info that can be...

Ahh I see. The Unimilk told me to offer its product, calf manna My dumor milk bag says to do dumor calf starter. I'm snowed in today. Texas shuts down with 2-3 inches of snow, you know. Good news is her stools have thickened to a thick pudding today :) I went out to give electrolytes at noon...

Also It is 27 degrees and snowing. A couple of days ago it was 50 degrees. That was preceded by 2 days that were in the 20's day and night so not the best weather for me to have a bottle calf for the first time. Should I add 2 cups or so milk at lunch as well as the separate electrolytes? I...

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I figured electrolytes didn't matter. I know milk replacer does. She gets a total of 2 quarts since he said 2 pints twice a day. Actually I got the creep feed like the seller said but it looked big so I never gave it, just the calf manna since it is smaller pieces like what the seller was...

I got her from a dairy close by. They are switching to beef and selling 4 young heifers. I took a 3-4 week old one that was eating grain (the others were younger). I could not replicate his grain, he got it from a local feed store. It was 10-12% protein but he told me to get creep feed. That is...