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Breeding / Calving Issues
1st calf heifer, but mama has no milk
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<blockquote data-quote="mjnetex" data-source="post: 944393" data-attributes="member: 13948"><p>Mama might or might not produce enough for the one bottle in the evening to be sufficient. If baby is hungry in the morning--nursing all the time and moving from teat to teat--and throughout the day, you might have to give a </p><p>bottle in the AM too. She will keep after mama and not take the bottle well if mama produces enough. What I mean is that the bottles are not going to fill her up so much that she won't keep after mama--mama is more fun and tastes better if you are using milk replacer. I've had this exact thing happen once, had to bottle twice a day til calf could eat grass, then once a day....then pair to sale barn when calf was about four months (this was not a young heifer).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mjnetex, post: 944393, member: 13948"] Mama might or might not produce enough for the one bottle in the evening to be sufficient. If baby is hungry in the morning--nursing all the time and moving from teat to teat--and throughout the day, you might have to give a bottle in the AM too. She will keep after mama and not take the bottle well if mama produces enough. What I mean is that the bottles are not going to fill her up so much that she won't keep after mama--mama is more fun and tastes better if you are using milk replacer. I've had this exact thing happen once, had to bottle twice a day til calf could eat grass, then once a day....then pair to sale barn when calf was about four months (this was not a young heifer). [/QUOTE]
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