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Bottle calf! Some say I'm crazy...
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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 1769063" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>The problem of bringing a calf to your farm is: Your cattle are healthy. New calf is healthy. But, new calf has DIFFERENT set of bugs in its system that he/she is immune to. Your calves have your farm bugs that they are immune to because of Mom's colostrum. You put two different herd bugs together with naive newborns. Way too dangerous for me.</p><p>Even if they never SEE each other. They SEE YOU. Your clothes, boots, hands, etc. Nightmare waiting to happen. But, I see people do it and get away with it. Maybe because there are no "specific" bugs on your farm - just rotating bugs all the time. I don't know how that works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 1769063, member: 968"] The problem of bringing a calf to your farm is: Your cattle are healthy. New calf is healthy. But, new calf has DIFFERENT set of bugs in its system that he/she is immune to. Your calves have your farm bugs that they are immune to because of Mom's colostrum. You put two different herd bugs together with naive newborns. Way too dangerous for me. Even if they never SEE each other. They SEE YOU. Your clothes, boots, hands, etc. Nightmare waiting to happen. But, I see people do it and get away with it. Maybe because there are no "specific" bugs on your farm - just rotating bugs all the time. I don't know how that works. [/QUOTE]
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