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<blockquote data-quote="Susie David" data-source="post: 905498" data-attributes="member: 1744"><p>Experience is the best teacher. Easy to buy a sick or poor doing calf if you don't know what you are doing. Milk replacer is expensive, calves can't do well with the cheep stuff. Think about the time it takes to make a few gallons of milk...we used a propane camp stove and a 5 gallon stock pot and alot of nipple buckets(be sure to design a device to hold them securely to the fence rail, calves have the head butt instinct) and plenty of time. Little buggers like to be fed three and four times a day in the beginning.</p><p>Best advise is to buy a good nurse cow or three...or stay away from orphan calves.</p><p>Have done the baby calf thing...never again, and I'm on calf watch tonight, first calf heifer has one knocking on the back door, only thing missing is the hooves poking out.</p><p>That is my two bits worth...asked for or not.</p><p>Dave Mc</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Susie David, post: 905498, member: 1744"] Experience is the best teacher. Easy to buy a sick or poor doing calf if you don't know what you are doing. Milk replacer is expensive, calves can't do well with the cheep stuff. Think about the time it takes to make a few gallons of milk...we used a propane camp stove and a 5 gallon stock pot and alot of nipple buckets(be sure to design a device to hold them securely to the fence rail, calves have the head butt instinct) and plenty of time. Little buggers like to be fed three and four times a day in the beginning. Best advise is to buy a good nurse cow or three...or stay away from orphan calves. Have done the baby calf thing...never again, and I'm on calf watch tonight, first calf heifer has one knocking on the back door, only thing missing is the hooves poking out. That is my two bits worth...asked for or not. Dave Mc [/QUOTE]
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