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Brood cow vs milk replacer
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<blockquote data-quote="riquezada" data-source="post: 1404202" data-attributes="member: 1167"><p>After raising hundreds and hundreds of calves over the past 30 years, I have only bought one bag of milk replacer in the past 20 years or so. It was a good learning experience for our early 20's daughter to bottle feed this calf last year. We were down to about 1 1/2 days of replacer when it started nursing the old cow, so we got lucky. </p><p></p><p>If I were to again specifically raise "bottle calves" I would only do it on nurse cows. I don't see at current weaning prices, say Holsteins or Xs, that anyone could make a dime doing it with replacer. With the nurse cow there's still costs involved but over a while I know a person would be ahead</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="riquezada, post: 1404202, member: 1167"] After raising hundreds and hundreds of calves over the past 30 years, I have only bought one bag of milk replacer in the past 20 years or so. It was a good learning experience for our early 20's daughter to bottle feed this calf last year. We were down to about 1 1/2 days of replacer when it started nursing the old cow, so we got lucky. If I were to again specifically raise "bottle calves" I would only do it on nurse cows. I don't see at current weaning prices, say Holsteins or Xs, that anyone could make a dime doing it with replacer. With the nurse cow there's still costs involved but over a while I know a person would be ahead [/QUOTE]
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