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Good morning! After posting a couple of threads about my bottle calves, it's past time to introduce myself. My husband and I have a small farm (12 acres at home, 14 more a mile away) just outside of Kansas City, Missouri where we raise some livestock to fill our freezers and some for family and...

Please help me understand the process to transition my bottle calves to grain, hay and pasture. I have two, heifer and steer, at nearly 9 weeks old. Backstory is the steer's mother had mastitis; heifer's mother was a neighbor's old cow with huge udders dragging the ground. Lucky me, I got the...

Good morning, I am new here and starting with an emergency situation. We raise a few (6-8) cattle for our freezer and family. Had a newborn calf yesterday, 5th for our cow Blackie, with contracted tendons. He could not walk normally and wouldn't latch on. After 3-1/2 hrs, I gave him a bottle of...