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<blockquote data-quote="robert" data-source="post: 629262" data-attributes="member: 9171"><p>The way to eliminate frequent calls to the vet is to cull the problems. An example, went out the other morning, a heifer was going around with her tail up discharging what appeared at first to be just a string of water sac but on closer inspection contained placenta as well, called the vet and we got a live calf (soon to be steer calf) and the heifer cleaned and mothered the calf but it will be the last calf that heifer produces, come weaning she's beef. You have to give the vet a fighting chance of getting a good result, too often we have neigbors who complain about how they got a huge vet bill and a dead calf but when you get the story you find out they screwed around for a few hours before they even called the vet and all hope was lost anyway. We used to give heifers a second chance but it seemed every time we did they would reward us by kicking us in the ass again not too far down the road.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="robert, post: 629262, member: 9171"] The way to eliminate frequent calls to the vet is to cull the problems. An example, went out the other morning, a heifer was going around with her tail up discharging what appeared at first to be just a string of water sac but on closer inspection contained placenta as well, called the vet and we got a live calf (soon to be steer calf) and the heifer cleaned and mothered the calf but it will be the last calf that heifer produces, come weaning she's beef. You have to give the vet a fighting chance of getting a good result, too often we have neigbors who complain about how they got a huge vet bill and a dead calf but when you get the story you find out they screwed around for a few hours before they even called the vet and all hope was lost anyway. We used to give heifers a second chance but it seemed every time we did they would reward us by kicking us in the ass again not too far down the road. [/QUOTE]
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