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<blockquote data-quote="BrangusUSA" data-source="post: 1447648" data-attributes="member: 29753"><p>Angus9259 hold on skippy! I never said no cattle died. I gave you two examples of ones that did. Anyone in the cattle business for any length of time will lose one occasionally. It is inherent to the business. But there is no shot that would have fixed those that died. I also said we had used an antibiotic 3 times in the past 10 years. We really try not to over use that, but if an animal is sick we will treat him. I will stand by the comment on never having a vet treat our cattle. I have taken a picture of a calf and showed it to the feed mill owner and said what does this look like and how would you treat it? He said tetanus shot and I gave tetanus and antibiotic shot. We run the bulls with the herd year round. I know from records who has calved and who needs to get on the bus. I really don't need or care for a vet to tell me the momma cow is 6 months pregnant, etc.</p><p>May sound short sighted but if ever have blackleg, etc. we will start treating it. We cull (sale barn) any lame, old, limping, nonproducing, etc. We have no adjacent neighbors running cattle to worry about. We run a closed herd except for bulls. My point was just that cattle have been having calves for thousands of years without human assistance. I must note that ours are commercial not PB. If I had the kind of money in a single cow that some of these guys have I would probably have them in air conditioned/heated barns and sleep next to them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrangusUSA, post: 1447648, member: 29753"] Angus9259 hold on skippy! I never said no cattle died. I gave you two examples of ones that did. Anyone in the cattle business for any length of time will lose one occasionally. It is inherent to the business. But there is no shot that would have fixed those that died. I also said we had used an antibiotic 3 times in the past 10 years. We really try not to over use that, but if an animal is sick we will treat him. I will stand by the comment on never having a vet treat our cattle. I have taken a picture of a calf and showed it to the feed mill owner and said what does this look like and how would you treat it? He said tetanus shot and I gave tetanus and antibiotic shot. We run the bulls with the herd year round. I know from records who has calved and who needs to get on the bus. I really don't need or care for a vet to tell me the momma cow is 6 months pregnant, etc. May sound short sighted but if ever have blackleg, etc. we will start treating it. We cull (sale barn) any lame, old, limping, nonproducing, etc. We have no adjacent neighbors running cattle to worry about. We run a closed herd except for bulls. My point was just that cattle have been having calves for thousands of years without human assistance. I must note that ours are commercial not PB. If I had the kind of money in a single cow that some of these guys have I would probably have them in air conditioned/heated barns and sleep next to them. [/QUOTE]
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