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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 311750" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>There isn;t any great dark secrets to raising healthy claves on replacer. You start with healthy clave, use a high quality milk replacer, preferably medicated. Not the soy based junk. Keep them out of drafts and dry.</p><p>Calves do very well on goats milk but they need to be gradually adapted to it or they'll scour their brains out.</p><p>You can find a 3 titter or a 2 titter at some sale barns and even some dairys before they cull them. Lowering the guality/quantity of the groceries will help, but if you start with a lighter milking breed you won;t have the same problems. Crossing a beef bull on a dairy breed like a Holstein will give you a decent calf ut it will still be moreframey and require longer to finish then a straight beef breed. If you have a dairy around that does that cross on the heifers, they do make a good family cow. They'll provide milk for the table and still raise a good calf, or several.</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 311750, member: 34"] There isn;t any great dark secrets to raising healthy claves on replacer. You start with healthy clave, use a high quality milk replacer, preferably medicated. Not the soy based junk. Keep them out of drafts and dry. Calves do very well on goats milk but they need to be gradually adapted to it or they'll scour their brains out. You can find a 3 titter or a 2 titter at some sale barns and even some dairys before they cull them. Lowering the guality/quantity of the groceries will help, but if you start with a lighter milking breed you won;t have the same problems. Crossing a beef bull on a dairy breed like a Holstein will give you a decent calf ut it will still be moreframey and require longer to finish then a straight beef breed. If you have a dairy around that does that cross on the heifers, they do make a good family cow. They'll provide milk for the table and still raise a good calf, or several. dun [/QUOTE]
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