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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1828921" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Great advice. The family she escaped from when Zeke found her, milked her and raised calves off of her, too. </p><p>This is gonna be <em>work</em>l! And time consuming! And in March the other three will calve. so that will sure enough be a lot of work! We might breed those 3 back about a month apart to stagger it a little. Thanks so much [USER=25884]@farmerjan[/USER] for filling me in on those details. I am glad I live 3 hours away! When I called Ms. Mattie after supper she basically told me about the same thing. She said when she was little, and her daddy came home from the war, they moved to a dairy, and he, her mother and 2 older brothers did the milking, and she remembered how they would raise the calves. she said by the time she was old enough to help milk, they moved off the dairy and her daddy went to work pulp wooding, but they had a milk cow and would get other calves from the dairy to put on her. She said she didn't want to be milking no cow, but she would show Zeke how to do it. And how to churn butter!</p><p></p><p> There is no barn at the pasture at Mattie's house , but we can make three 12 x12 stalls out of panels, and put one of our funeral home tents we use at the dove shoot to eat under, over the panels. Or move them to Scott's house and use the horse stable. Or, best place would be the pole barn by the corral at the Kudzu place. When we built it....40 foot long, we dropped a 12 foot lean-to off one side that is inside the corral., so we can make 3 stalls under that, or even put up 3 stalls in the pole barn itself. Problem would be getting Mattie down there (about 3 miles) when its cold and/or rainy. Good weather, Zeke can carry her there in a golf cart, or the Gator or Mule. Do you milk her 2 times as well when you let her in to the calves, or could you just milk her once a day, and feed the calves twice a day? </p><p></p><p>Scott said Zeke told him he thought Gail had peed on it, or bled on it, because it looked wet or oily, and its ears was stuck to its head, so yeah, I bet he got there not long after it was born. Probably why she was "mean" to Zeke., but she got ok a LOT faster than a Corriente or Brahma, or an Angus would!</p><p></p><p> I kinda wish now I hadn't bought those last 2 from my MC brother's widow. Or at least, NOT carried them down there. When I bought them, I was planning on just hauling them to the sale, though they would not have brought what I paid her for them. I paid her about $2k each, but she would not have let me just give her that much money. I wish I HAD sold them, or sent them to Oklahoma to [USER=39373]@MurraysMutts[/USER] !! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> But, I had the idea in my head of Zeke having 4 brahma/dairy replacement heifers to sell every year, and 12 beef steers to sell every year, and at today's prices have about $20k go into his trust every year. But, maybe it wont be so bad. Zeke has shown us time again that he can learn how to do anything we show him exactly like we show him, and any task he is given, he is gonna complete, and complete it right. Maybe he will get to where he can handle this nurse cow situation on his own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1828921, member: 40587"] Great advice. The family she escaped from when Zeke found her, milked her and raised calves off of her, too. This is gonna be [I]work[/I]l! And time consuming! And in March the other three will calve. so that will sure enough be a lot of work! We might breed those 3 back about a month apart to stagger it a little. Thanks so much [USER=25884]@farmerjan[/USER] for filling me in on those details. I am glad I live 3 hours away! When I called Ms. Mattie after supper she basically told me about the same thing. She said when she was little, and her daddy came home from the war, they moved to a dairy, and he, her mother and 2 older brothers did the milking, and she remembered how they would raise the calves. she said by the time she was old enough to help milk, they moved off the dairy and her daddy went to work pulp wooding, but they had a milk cow and would get other calves from the dairy to put on her. She said she didn't want to be milking no cow, but she would show Zeke how to do it. And how to churn butter! There is no barn at the pasture at Mattie's house , but we can make three 12 x12 stalls out of panels, and put one of our funeral home tents we use at the dove shoot to eat under, over the panels. Or move them to Scott's house and use the horse stable. Or, best place would be the pole barn by the corral at the Kudzu place. When we built it....40 foot long, we dropped a 12 foot lean-to off one side that is inside the corral., so we can make 3 stalls under that, or even put up 3 stalls in the pole barn itself. Problem would be getting Mattie down there (about 3 miles) when its cold and/or rainy. Good weather, Zeke can carry her there in a golf cart, or the Gator or Mule. Do you milk her 2 times as well when you let her in to the calves, or could you just milk her once a day, and feed the calves twice a day? Scott said Zeke told him he thought Gail had peed on it, or bled on it, because it looked wet or oily, and its ears was stuck to its head, so yeah, I bet he got there not long after it was born. Probably why she was "mean" to Zeke., but she got ok a LOT faster than a Corriente or Brahma, or an Angus would! I kinda wish now I hadn't bought those last 2 from my MC brother's widow. Or at least, NOT carried them down there. When I bought them, I was planning on just hauling them to the sale, though they would not have brought what I paid her for them. I paid her about $2k each, but she would not have let me just give her that much money. I wish I HAD sold them, or sent them to Oklahoma to [USER=39373]@MurraysMutts[/USER] !! :) But, I had the idea in my head of Zeke having 4 brahma/dairy replacement heifers to sell every year, and 12 beef steers to sell every year, and at today's prices have about $20k go into his trust every year. But, maybe it wont be so bad. Zeke has shown us time again that he can learn how to do anything we show him exactly like we show him, and any task he is given, he is gonna complete, and complete it right. Maybe he will get to where he can handle this nurse cow situation on his own. [/QUOTE]
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