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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 280021" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>There has become quite a difference of opinion on this board on bottle calves. Some of it seems to be that bottle calves are too much work. That is a seperate and individual issue of whether or not you have time to raise them on the bottle. There is the other issue of whether or not they make good cows to keep. As far as the dairy industry goes, every calf is a bottle calf, so if they are all crap, there is no dairy industry. So, that statement is obviously false. The debate seems to be about beef cows. For many years, all of our beef cows came out of the dairy herd and were all bucket or bottle raised. They were very easy to work cows and gentle all over the field. They didnt get excited and our old fences were never a problem. You didnt need an expensive corral, because they didnt get excited and they didnt take off to try to break out. When we quit milking, we started adding beef cows that were raised on their mommas. It was very hard to get used to the difference in their temperaments. We had to build pipe corrals and buy headgates and build lead in fences to get these cattle rounded up and work them. We ended up learning that the easiest way is to train them with a sack of grain. We still have some cows that were raised on the bottle, they are old, but they are a true joy to work with. Those cattle raised monster calves, but that was genetics, being 1/4-1/2 dairy (different subject). It is obvious that alot of people want nothing to do with cows that were bottle raised. Because I have had so many of both and I hated all the extra effort and expense to change from bottle raised cows, I dont understand this. I would be interested in hearing from the people who hate bottle raised mommas what problems they have had that make them feel that way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 280021, member: 1150"] There has become quite a difference of opinion on this board on bottle calves. Some of it seems to be that bottle calves are too much work. That is a seperate and individual issue of whether or not you have time to raise them on the bottle. There is the other issue of whether or not they make good cows to keep. As far as the dairy industry goes, every calf is a bottle calf, so if they are all crap, there is no dairy industry. So, that statement is obviously false. The debate seems to be about beef cows. For many years, all of our beef cows came out of the dairy herd and were all bucket or bottle raised. They were very easy to work cows and gentle all over the field. They didnt get excited and our old fences were never a problem. You didnt need an expensive corral, because they didnt get excited and they didnt take off to try to break out. When we quit milking, we started adding beef cows that were raised on their mommas. It was very hard to get used to the difference in their temperaments. We had to build pipe corrals and buy headgates and build lead in fences to get these cattle rounded up and work them. We ended up learning that the easiest way is to train them with a sack of grain. We still have some cows that were raised on the bottle, they are old, but they are a true joy to work with. Those cattle raised monster calves, but that was genetics, being 1/4-1/2 dairy (different subject). It is obvious that alot of people want nothing to do with cows that were bottle raised. Because I have had so many of both and I hated all the extra effort and expense to change from bottle raised cows, I dont understand this. I would be interested in hearing from the people who hate bottle raised mommas what problems they have had that make them feel that way. [/QUOTE]
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