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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1819505" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I would be very careful about ever putting the sucker back with animals bigger than her... I never put any weaned heifers in with bigger animals, and they will not go with any lactating animals until after they have calved themselves. </p><p></p><p>If they go to sucking a heifer they can damage the udder and you could wind up with the one being sucked, as a 3 quarter animal when she calves. Have seen way too many over the years in the dairy animals... </p><p></p><p>I also have not had much luck with nose flap weaners .... </p><p></p><p>Had a group of heifers raised together, bred and calved all in the same field... 2 of them went to sucking on other fresh heifers... the heifers' own calf sucking from the side and the other newly fresh heifer sucking from the back... couldn't break one and she went down the road... the other one got stuck out with older cows and they beat her up enough that she stopped trying to suck.... some just never quit....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1819505, member: 25884"] I would be very careful about ever putting the sucker back with animals bigger than her... I never put any weaned heifers in with bigger animals, and they will not go with any lactating animals until after they have calved themselves. If they go to sucking a heifer they can damage the udder and you could wind up with the one being sucked, as a 3 quarter animal when she calves. Have seen way too many over the years in the dairy animals... I also have not had much luck with nose flap weaners .... Had a group of heifers raised together, bred and calved all in the same field... 2 of them went to sucking on other fresh heifers... the heifers' own calf sucking from the side and the other newly fresh heifer sucking from the back... couldn't break one and she went down the road... the other one got stuck out with older cows and they beat her up enough that she stopped trying to suck.... some just never quit.... [/QUOTE]
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