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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 8821"><p>Go ahead and send your cow to be bred when you are ready to do so. <p>Anytime a calf is weaned & not nursing, the mother's bag is going to fill up with milk. She will be uncomfortable for a couple of days, then she will take another week or so to dry up. This won't cause her any health problems. <p>If you milk her while you are weaning the calf, she will just continue to produce milk. A cow will produce as much milk as is being used. <p>Milk fever is something entirely different, and happens to some cows when their calf is born and they first fill up with milk. I believe it is a calcium and/or magnesium imbalance in the system of a heavy-milking cow. Perhaps someone else can explain milk fever better than I can. <p>We usually wean our calves at 205 days and they do fine. Some people wean at a younger age. If your calf is healthy and eating well, you can wean whenever you are ready. <p>Did you know you can breed your cow much sooner tan 6 months after she calves? 45 days after calving is about the minimum length of time to wait before breeding the cow back. And, at that stage, if the cow has a heifer calf by her side, the heifer won't be old enough to worry about the bull breeding her, too. </p><p><br></p><p><ul><li><a href="http://www.murraygrey.com">http://www.murraygrey.com</a></ul></p><p><br><hr size=4 width=75%><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 8821"] Go ahead and send your cow to be bred when you are ready to do so. <p>Anytime a calf is weaned & not nursing, the mother's bag is going to fill up with milk. She will be uncomfortable for a couple of days, then she will take another week or so to dry up. This won't cause her any health problems. <p>If you milk her while you are weaning the calf, she will just continue to produce milk. A cow will produce as much milk as is being used. <p>Milk fever is something entirely different, and happens to some cows when their calf is born and they first fill up with milk. I believe it is a calcium and/or magnesium imbalance in the system of a heavy-milking cow. Perhaps someone else can explain milk fever better than I can. <p>We usually wean our calves at 205 days and they do fine. Some people wean at a younger age. If your calf is healthy and eating well, you can wean whenever you are ready. <p>Did you know you can breed your cow much sooner tan 6 months after she calves? 45 days after calving is about the minimum length of time to wait before breeding the cow back. And, at that stage, if the cow has a heifer calf by her side, the heifer won't be old enough to worry about the bull breeding her, too. <br> <ul><li><a href="http://www.murraygrey.com">http://www.murraygrey.com</a></ul> <br><hr size=4 width=75%><p> [/QUOTE]
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