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Breeding / Calving Issues
Calving woes...weak calf, prolapses, etc.
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<blockquote data-quote="raykour" data-source="post: 912585" data-attributes="member: 16801"><p>Location is northern Colorado. The tally this year has been pretty bad. </p><p>7 live full term calves. 2 required pulling (from 1st calvers), 1 of which is one of the bottle babies</p><p>1 mid-term abortion in December (cow was due to calve the end of April)</p><p>1 premature birth in February (calf was 5-6 weeks early, and lived for 6 hours. Would have lived for about an hour outside which probably would have been more merciful but I had to try ) Tentatively I am blaming this particular incident on pine needle consumption. </p><p></p><p>This if you don't count fall calvers, who had no issues so I am just talking about calving beginning 1/15/12. I have 8 left to go for spring calvers. </p><p></p><p>We are not in a selenium deficient area and my mineral contains 4 ppm of selenium. I have no idea if that is a good or bad amount but we live in Northern Colorado and the mineral is formulated specifically for our area by a local (reputable) feed mill. </p><p></p><p>The size of the calves has really varied, most of them have been very large save for one heifer calf was was kind of smaller and then this little char x bull who is just teeny.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="raykour, post: 912585, member: 16801"] Location is northern Colorado. The tally this year has been pretty bad. 7 live full term calves. 2 required pulling (from 1st calvers), 1 of which is one of the bottle babies 1 mid-term abortion in December (cow was due to calve the end of April) 1 premature birth in February (calf was 5-6 weeks early, and lived for 6 hours. Would have lived for about an hour outside which probably would have been more merciful but I had to try ) Tentatively I am blaming this particular incident on pine needle consumption. This if you don't count fall calvers, who had no issues so I am just talking about calving beginning 1/15/12. I have 8 left to go for spring calvers. We are not in a selenium deficient area and my mineral contains 4 ppm of selenium. I have no idea if that is a good or bad amount but we live in Northern Colorado and the mineral is formulated specifically for our area by a local (reputable) feed mill. The size of the calves has really varied, most of them have been very large save for one heifer calf was was kind of smaller and then this little char x bull who is just teeny. [/QUOTE]
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