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Any profit on bottle calves??
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<blockquote data-quote="Keren" data-source="post: 619649" data-attributes="member: 3195"><p>That will depend on the number of lambs I get. They will start arriving in May and will keep arriving at least one every month until December. The kids come in bursts, every few months. </p><p></p><p>Those figures I said were using replacer. With the dairy does, most likely I will milk them out rather than fostering them on, takes a little more work but theres a few advantages; I can tell exactly how much milk each kid/lamb is getting and hence pick up on sickness etc; I can regulate how much the little boogers get and there will be no bullying (I dont give them over 1L and they do fine); plus there is less wear on the does udder - I've gotten bitten and really sore teats on does when they have more than two kids, particularly if the doe is not good at 'rotating' the kids, and she feeds em all at once they fight over the teats something shocking, and you end up with a messed up udder. Some does work it all out though and will only feed two, then go and find the other two and feed them. </p><p></p><p>If I'm feeding calves, foals or piglets obviously there is no choice but to milk and bottle feed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keren, post: 619649, member: 3195"] That will depend on the number of lambs I get. They will start arriving in May and will keep arriving at least one every month until December. The kids come in bursts, every few months. Those figures I said were using replacer. With the dairy does, most likely I will milk them out rather than fostering them on, takes a little more work but theres a few advantages; I can tell exactly how much milk each kid/lamb is getting and hence pick up on sickness etc; I can regulate how much the little boogers get and there will be no bullying (I dont give them over 1L and they do fine); plus there is less wear on the does udder - I've gotten bitten and really sore teats on does when they have more than two kids, particularly if the doe is not good at 'rotating' the kids, and she feeds em all at once they fight over the teats something shocking, and you end up with a messed up udder. Some does work it all out though and will only feed two, then go and find the other two and feed them. If I'm feeding calves, foals or piglets obviously there is no choice but to milk and bottle feed. [/QUOTE]
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