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<blockquote data-quote="Beefy" data-source="post: 83829" data-attributes="member: 57"><p>Jeanne, as usual your post is very informative. I'm aware of all you said regarding colostrum. Thanks for sharing that with me just in case though, i'm sure a lot of other posters will benefit from that. Still, i dont have time to wait around for all 140-160 calves to figure it out. just say for instance you have 5 calves a day, and it takes them 10 minutes (minimum here obviously) to nurse, thats an hour right there. i have too many other things to do. heck, it may be 12 hours before i find a calf if teh cow calves after dark. Our cows run on 500 acres during the majority of the year and 1000 during this part of the year. it can take me an hour and a half or more to check on cows, but it works for us. we always have well over 90% calf crop, havent had to assist any births this year (one last year-breech) and i dont sit around playing nurse maid or whatever the male version of a maid is (butler?). I'll intervene if i absolutely have to, otherwise they have to figure it out on their own. we rarely have a problem other than a dummy or the very occasional heifer that wont let a calf nurse or some cow that has mastitis. For the most part, until the monsoons this year, we dont have to deal with bad weather so the cows are expected to do their jobs by themselves. true, they would do better if they got colostrum immediately but the ones i've had to help over the years havent done bad by any means, and good is good enough for me. if we all did things exactly by the book one of two things would happen. we'd either have all sold all of our cows at some point for some reason or we'd all be completely broke. and like you said, sometimes s+uff happens. thanks for the great posts!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beefy, post: 83829, member: 57"] Jeanne, as usual your post is very informative. I'm aware of all you said regarding colostrum. Thanks for sharing that with me just in case though, i'm sure a lot of other posters will benefit from that. Still, i dont have time to wait around for all 140-160 calves to figure it out. just say for instance you have 5 calves a day, and it takes them 10 minutes (minimum here obviously) to nurse, thats an hour right there. i have too many other things to do. heck, it may be 12 hours before i find a calf if teh cow calves after dark. Our cows run on 500 acres during the majority of the year and 1000 during this part of the year. it can take me an hour and a half or more to check on cows, but it works for us. we always have well over 90% calf crop, havent had to assist any births this year (one last year-breech) and i dont sit around playing nurse maid or whatever the male version of a maid is (butler?). I'll intervene if i absolutely have to, otherwise they have to figure it out on their own. we rarely have a problem other than a dummy or the very occasional heifer that wont let a calf nurse or some cow that has mastitis. For the most part, until the monsoons this year, we dont have to deal with bad weather so the cows are expected to do their jobs by themselves. true, they would do better if they got colostrum immediately but the ones i've had to help over the years havent done bad by any means, and good is good enough for me. if we all did things exactly by the book one of two things would happen. we'd either have all sold all of our cows at some point for some reason or we'd all be completely broke. and like you said, sometimes s+uff happens. thanks for the great posts! [/QUOTE]
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