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<blockquote data-quote="Brute 23" data-source="post: 1304883" data-attributes="member: 6291"><p>That makes sense. If you are documenting all that then ok. Im all about keeping records.</p><p></p><p>If you just tagging for identification as a new born, your likely wasting time and taking un-necessary risk.</p><p></p><p>I go by the cows as they calve and write down the cows number, sex of calf, maybe a description, and the month/ year. A lot of times they don't come out of the brush until they are one or two weeks old.</p><p></p><p>Ex: #86, BC, blk mtf, 1/16 (so its # 86 cow, bull calf, black motley face calf, born January of 2016)</p><p></p><p>That's all I need for now. Later on when we work cattle or their is a big enough group we pen them, cut the calves off and leave them separated over night. The next morning you turn them back together. You can ride or walk around them and just write the calves' numbers behind the cow. Easy deal. Cows calm down a lot once a calf is #200+ vs a new born.</p><p></p><p>I can enter the info in to my spreadsheet to keep up with cows calving cycles. Put in the weight of the calf at sale, how much it sold for, and its age. That's it.</p><p></p><p>Unless you are tracking new born weights and sizes... there is not a lot of need to tag them as newborns IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brute 23, post: 1304883, member: 6291"] That makes sense. If you are documenting all that then ok. Im all about keeping records. If you just tagging for identification as a new born, your likely wasting time and taking un-necessary risk. I go by the cows as they calve and write down the cows number, sex of calf, maybe a description, and the month/ year. A lot of times they don't come out of the brush until they are one or two weeks old. Ex: #86, BC, blk mtf, 1/16 (so its # 86 cow, bull calf, black motley face calf, born January of 2016) That's all I need for now. Later on when we work cattle or their is a big enough group we pen them, cut the calves off and leave them separated over night. The next morning you turn them back together. You can ride or walk around them and just write the calves' numbers behind the cow. Easy deal. Cows calm down a lot once a calf is #200+ vs a new born. I can enter the info in to my spreadsheet to keep up with cows calving cycles. Put in the weight of the calf at sale, how much it sold for, and its age. That's it. Unless you are tracking new born weights and sizes... there is not a lot of need to tag them as newborns IMO. [/QUOTE]
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