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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1265635" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>I'll second what pretty much everyone has been saying... What sort of cattle experience do you have? have you assisted many before so you know what you're doing? do you have a good squeeze and the tools you'll need? All these things are going to be the difference between the long list of potential disasters everyone has spoken about, and being able to side step them.</p><p></p><p>when we started out in 1992, we bought 12 bred heifers.. they were from an 'organic' ranch, so they must be good right?.. we were such greenhorns we must have been the laughing stock of the area. The first year we had one cow push the calf under a stack of irrigation pipes, so it suffocated, and then she subsequently prolapsed.. another calf broke a leg, Lost another calf at birth (also suffocated I think?), and to top it off, the last one looked like she was FAR overdue, probably an 800 lb heifer with a 110 lb bull calf.. we lost both of those... So for calving season losses out of 12 births we lost 5 animals, and the prolapse cow was culled.</p><p>Further on in the season we lost another 2 cows to atypical pneumonia... it was a rough year!</p><p></p><p>This year I bought a calf puller after I had the foresight to borrow one before I needed it.. the new bull isn't heifer friendly, and I had to pull 3 of 4 calves, and 2 of those NEEDED the puller, but all went well in the end... I'm batting 100% birth to weaning over the last 100,.. experience doesn't come cheap though</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1265635, member: 9096"] I'll second what pretty much everyone has been saying... What sort of cattle experience do you have? have you assisted many before so you know what you're doing? do you have a good squeeze and the tools you'll need? All these things are going to be the difference between the long list of potential disasters everyone has spoken about, and being able to side step them. when we started out in 1992, we bought 12 bred heifers.. they were from an 'organic' ranch, so they must be good right?.. we were such greenhorns we must have been the laughing stock of the area. The first year we had one cow push the calf under a stack of irrigation pipes, so it suffocated, and then she subsequently prolapsed.. another calf broke a leg, Lost another calf at birth (also suffocated I think?), and to top it off, the last one looked like she was FAR overdue, probably an 800 lb heifer with a 110 lb bull calf.. we lost both of those... So for calving season losses out of 12 births we lost 5 animals, and the prolapse cow was culled. Further on in the season we lost another 2 cows to atypical pneumonia... it was a rough year! This year I bought a calf puller after I had the foresight to borrow one before I needed it.. the new bull isn't heifer friendly, and I had to pull 3 of 4 calves, and 2 of those NEEDED the puller, but all went well in the end... I'm batting 100% birth to weaning over the last 100,.. experience doesn't come cheap though [/QUOTE]
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