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<blockquote data-quote="Coosh71" data-source="post: 1568796" data-attributes="member: 25267"><p>PR, I understand some of what you are getting at and also hate how some care for their animals. However, I see A LOT of operations running EXACTLY like granddad did it 60 years ago. One producer here in my area gives on dose of Calvary 9 at around 3 months. That's it... They feel good in doing so cause dad and granddad didn't give ANYTHING unless a calf was sick. I own and operate other businesses as well, and they run just like others of there type because that's how it has to be run. But, the cattle business is unlike any I've been in. Literally everyone can do things different, and still deliver calves to the sale barn. WE sell privately most of the time to repeat buyers. Repeat buyers because of how our calves perform on wheat in both growth AND no doctoring needed. That being said even well vaccinated calves can and will get ill at times when transported from here to there. We have had calves vaccinated 3 times on a schedule with the rest, not perform well, and just seem to catch every bug around. This year's weather HERE has been pretty nice, but 70% of the country has been having heck with everything, losing cows, calves bulls etc. I understand your frustrations. Read some of these posts from the past on here. We have all been kicked in the knees and get frustrated. All I can say is when we deal with a gross amount of animals (especially young ones), we should expect loss, and at times a lot of bad days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coosh71, post: 1568796, member: 25267"] PR, I understand some of what you are getting at and also hate how some care for their animals. However, I see A LOT of operations running EXACTLY like granddad did it 60 years ago. One producer here in my area gives on dose of Calvary 9 at around 3 months. That's it... They feel good in doing so cause dad and granddad didn't give ANYTHING unless a calf was sick. I own and operate other businesses as well, and they run just like others of there type because that's how it has to be run. But, the cattle business is unlike any I've been in. Literally everyone can do things different, and still deliver calves to the sale barn. WE sell privately most of the time to repeat buyers. Repeat buyers because of how our calves perform on wheat in both growth AND no doctoring needed. That being said even well vaccinated calves can and will get ill at times when transported from here to there. We have had calves vaccinated 3 times on a schedule with the rest, not perform well, and just seem to catch every bug around. This year's weather HERE has been pretty nice, but 70% of the country has been having heck with everything, losing cows, calves bulls etc. I understand your frustrations. Read some of these posts from the past on here. We have all been kicked in the knees and get frustrated. All I can say is when we deal with a gross amount of animals (especially young ones), we should expect loss, and at times a lot of bad days. [/QUOTE]
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