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<blockquote data-quote="Beefy" data-source="post: 61615" data-attributes="member: 57"><p>We normally lose 4 or less a year. thats still 97.5% so not too bad, considering we have so many heifers. last year we had one hiplocked heifer that calved at night, deep in the woods, and had an enormous calf out of a bull she had no business being bred to (whoops.) and then another "dummy" calf that apparently never nursed. and our first calves were a set of twins that both were dead when i found them first thing in the morning and early according to the breeding date. to be expected with twins i guess. I will intervene if i have to as far as pulling a calf, or teaching one to nurse, or teaching a heifer to be a source of milk ("mom?") until her first calf is weanable. one of my favorite cows is a 14 year old angus who lost her first calf trying to deliver it. She wanted to be a mom so bad we got her a holstein bull to raise the first year and she has raised 12 excellent calves in all so far. we have lost zero out of 160 before but then there are those that you cant do anything about. I try to keep an eye on them as much as possible during calving season but cant hold their hands the whole time. nor should i have to.</p><p></p><p>PLB-yes. you should have intervened her butt to the salebarn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beefy, post: 61615, member: 57"] We normally lose 4 or less a year. thats still 97.5% so not too bad, considering we have so many heifers. last year we had one hiplocked heifer that calved at night, deep in the woods, and had an enormous calf out of a bull she had no business being bred to (whoops.) and then another "dummy" calf that apparently never nursed. and our first calves were a set of twins that both were dead when i found them first thing in the morning and early according to the breeding date. to be expected with twins i guess. I will intervene if i have to as far as pulling a calf, or teaching one to nurse, or teaching a heifer to be a source of milk ("mom?") until her first calf is weanable. one of my favorite cows is a 14 year old angus who lost her first calf trying to deliver it. She wanted to be a mom so bad we got her a holstein bull to raise the first year and she has raised 12 excellent calves in all so far. we have lost zero out of 160 before but then there are those that you cant do anything about. I try to keep an eye on them as much as possible during calving season but cant hold their hands the whole time. nor should i have to. PLB-yes. you should have intervened her butt to the salebarn. [/QUOTE]
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