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6 day old calf can’t walk
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1531424" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>M-5 is right about the bonding issue; but what I am also concerned about is the cow starting to dry up. After 48 hours, the hormones that cause the cow to start making milk, will "sense" the udder is still full, and the body is no longer calling for it to make more milk. In other words, use it or lose it. </p><p>Seriously, some dairy farmers will stop milking a high producing cow for a day or 2, then milk her out, then let her go for several more days then milk her out and dry treat her.... everyone has a different protocol...but the idea is to stop milking her out, so the fullness triggers that the milk is not needed and the hormones will not be engaged to make more milk. </p><p>The whole idea is the more demand you put on the milk system, the more it will make up to the cows genetic capacity to produce. If you are not stimulating the milk production, it will cease... or be severely diminished to where she will not have enough milk for the calf. I deal with both dairy and beef and have seen a cows production capacity greatly reduced because she was not "challenged" to make alot of milk in the beginning. </p><p> Not even considering the possibility of mastitis, and her being unable to feed the calf if she should get it and it causes her to lose a quarter or more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1531424, member: 25884"] M-5 is right about the bonding issue; but what I am also concerned about is the cow starting to dry up. After 48 hours, the hormones that cause the cow to start making milk, will "sense" the udder is still full, and the body is no longer calling for it to make more milk. In other words, use it or lose it. Seriously, some dairy farmers will stop milking a high producing cow for a day or 2, then milk her out, then let her go for several more days then milk her out and dry treat her.... everyone has a different protocol...but the idea is to stop milking her out, so the fullness triggers that the milk is not needed and the hormones will not be engaged to make more milk. The whole idea is the more demand you put on the milk system, the more it will make up to the cows genetic capacity to produce. If you are not stimulating the milk production, it will cease... or be severely diminished to where she will not have enough milk for the calf. I deal with both dairy and beef and have seen a cows production capacity greatly reduced because she was not "challenged" to make alot of milk in the beginning. Not even considering the possibility of mastitis, and her being unable to feed the calf if she should get it and it causes her to lose a quarter or more. [/QUOTE]
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