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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 7331" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>the whole world of dairy cattle is different then feedlot, cow calf, stocker or anything else. ABout the only thing in common is that they're cows.</p><p>If this particular cow disn't have BSE it would have helped contribute to the bottom line rather then been a negative affect. For the past 3 years or so, most dairys have been working at a loss of ncome over costs by about 1-4 dollars per cwt of milk.</p><p>There is nothing inherently wrong with downer cows. Neighbor had one slip on the ice and broke a hip, couldn't get her to a sale barn so it cost him 35 bucks to have the renderer come and pick it up. We were going to butcher her for local use but since all of us were all bunged up at the time we couldn't get it done so I just shot her and drug her to the fence to be picked up.</p><p>You have to work with dairys for a while and you'll get a different perspective of the whole cattle industry.</p><p>All downer cows are supposed to be checked for BSE. This is the first one that had it (that was detected) so obviously it isn't a common problem. Seems like in the cow calf business more cows are found dead then are found to be downers so it would be more common for dairy cows to be sold as downers.</p><p>Just an olde pharts opinion</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 7331, member: 34"] the whole world of dairy cattle is different then feedlot, cow calf, stocker or anything else. ABout the only thing in common is that they're cows. If this particular cow disn't have BSE it would have helped contribute to the bottom line rather then been a negative affect. For the past 3 years or so, most dairys have been working at a loss of ncome over costs by about 1-4 dollars per cwt of milk. There is nothing inherently wrong with downer cows. Neighbor had one slip on the ice and broke a hip, couldn't get her to a sale barn so it cost him 35 bucks to have the renderer come and pick it up. We were going to butcher her for local use but since all of us were all bunged up at the time we couldn't get it done so I just shot her and drug her to the fence to be picked up. You have to work with dairys for a while and you'll get a different perspective of the whole cattle industry. All downer cows are supposed to be checked for BSE. This is the first one that had it (that was detected) so obviously it isn't a common problem. Seems like in the cow calf business more cows are found dead then are found to be downers so it would be more common for dairy cows to be sold as downers. Just an olde pharts opinion dun [/QUOTE]
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