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I raise holstein calves and usually have odd hours when it comes to feeding them because of school. One night I had stayed up way to late cram studying for a test i had the next day so i fed my calves and called it a night. Next morning i came stumbling out to find my calves at the back door...

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When they are not eatting my calves have sucked on eachother in areas much rather left alone after castration. Also ive had calves go down when they are ill and the other one will walk all over them. So its much safer and easier to bring them together for food and then seperate them after.

I put them together when they feed and then i seperate them again afterwards so it promotes compition but there isnt any of the sucking.

True but some things cannot be avoided. Thats why i seperate my calves to keep them from sucking on eachother. But I had a calf who would press up against a fence for balance and go down to drink his own urine. So not all things should be blamed on the bottle. Some cattle are just plain weird...

I've known plenty of people who feed with a bucket and they just leave it sit then they come back and cant tell if the calf got any since its knocked over. Ive always fed with a bottle and either way it doesnt matter to me. The calf gets the milk one way or anther doesnt matter if you call it a...

I wean my calves usually at 400lbs and up their roughage and sweet feed.

Ok i see its pacients. The steer or horse doesnt want to liston you make them wait. So its like they walk with you or not at all but you do this all the while when your making friends with them. ^_^ Much clearer.

My friend had the same problem. Her holstein calf wouldnt walk so she held her hand above his head holding marshmellows. One easier way ive found to break my calves is if they dont want to go forward I make them go backwards.

Not to start a fuss or anything up here but just a quick question. Tieing the steer to a fence all day then draging it to water would be a postitive reaction to being lead. But sometimes once a steer already knows a routine they become pushy and eager to make their own head way. How do you...

Our method is almost as simple. Just throw the calf on its side. Someone holds the back leg, someone places their knee down on the neck and holds the front forelegs, then another person takes the horns right off. Of course you really want someone with a good hold to be holding the back leg since...

Its just the way that my advisor likes to do our calves. He doesnt like to miss anything and have to come back out in another 3 weeks to redehorn the same calf.

We used the barnes dehorner on my calf a few years back it worked really well. But we still used the iron dehorner just to cauterize the wound. Never had a horn grow back after that but we dehorn when they're about 2 to 3 weeks old.

If someone doesn’t want to be there then they shouldn’t be. We all have our responsibilities to take care of even if we don’t want to do them. It’s just annoying to have the public tell us to clean our barn. But then again there are always those annoying people. Last year a lady yelled at us to...

I'm the same exact way at fair time. I maybe got a good hour of looking around at the fair. But the rest of the while I spent 13 hours a day, 7 days that week in the barn. I even fell asleep in the barn a few times with my claf. It just really ticks me off that other people in my barn who are...

a calf that is cut will have better meat. The meat wont get tough and the marbling will be better since steers tend to build more fat then muscle like a bull would. Also its temperment wouldnt be as bad as a bull full fledged on testosterone would be.

when the stool turns a sliver color the calf has scours. Its a bacterial imbalance in the digestive system. Cut the milk in half so its not as rich and put yogurt into its feed. The yogurt will help the enzyms and microbs in the gut. Also use electorlyts so he wont get dehyrated as Michelle said...