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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1304932" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>I never said waiting was 'wrong'.. if it works for you, I don't give a rodent's rectum.. What other people do doesn't concern me.</p><p></p><p>I find it offensive you tell me I'm doing it wrong, or don't know what I am doing because I do it differently.</p><p></p><p>I don't feel like wrestling 300 lb steer calves to the ground to castrate them, or having a ton of bull calves around.. How's that for a reason to work them at birth? </p><p>If I find a sick calf, and I've tagged it, I know immediately which cow is the mother... My goal is to have cookie-cutter calves.. I'm not quite there yet, but they're getting hard to tell apart, and I only have 25.</p><p></p><p>If a cow doesn't want her calf and steals another calf, yeah, she gets a trip to the sale barn, but I'm not up for losing a calf for that year, or shooting her in the head... You must have a really big hat to afford that.</p><p></p><p>Since my cows are good natured (except a couple), I tag and band the calf in the first day... SOMETIMES, the calf is laying down and I can band it without even rolling it on it's side, though usually when the tagger hits, it's the end of that.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The way you describe your method of matching cows and calves works, I could perfectly well do it that way, but I don't see how that saves much time... and the bigger you are the more time it's going to take</p><p></p><p>My internet sucks, this was supposed to be posted about 5 posts ago</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1304932, member: 9096"] I never said waiting was 'wrong'.. if it works for you, I don't give a rodent's rectum.. What other people do doesn't concern me. I find it offensive you tell me I'm doing it wrong, or don't know what I am doing because I do it differently. I don't feel like wrestling 300 lb steer calves to the ground to castrate them, or having a ton of bull calves around.. How's that for a reason to work them at birth? If I find a sick calf, and I've tagged it, I know immediately which cow is the mother... My goal is to have cookie-cutter calves.. I'm not quite there yet, but they're getting hard to tell apart, and I only have 25. If a cow doesn't want her calf and steals another calf, yeah, she gets a trip to the sale barn, but I'm not up for losing a calf for that year, or shooting her in the head... You must have a really big hat to afford that. Since my cows are good natured (except a couple), I tag and band the calf in the first day... SOMETIMES, the calf is laying down and I can band it without even rolling it on it's side, though usually when the tagger hits, it's the end of that. The way you describe your method of matching cows and calves works, I could perfectly well do it that way, but I don't see how that saves much time... and the bigger you are the more time it's going to take My internet sucks, this was supposed to be posted about 5 posts ago [/QUOTE]
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