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<blockquote data-quote="hillbillycwo" data-source="post: 729076" data-attributes="member: 13747"><p>Thanks Alice. I hope that she doesn't go down quick. My brother-in-law will check on her today but he must feed hay and he works public work too. If she is bad he is gonna have the vet come out and try to get her in the barn. I can't wait to get my cattle handling facilities in. That will make that task much easier for him until I retire from the navy and get home to manage my farm locally. We are just trying to get the herd paid for over the next few calving seasons and expect to loose a few cows due to the risk. We just do not want unnecessary suffering. Livestock is a synonym for deadstock I realize with the risks we are taking. I will post tomorrow as to what he finds out this evening. Additionally, my neighbor is helping watch my cows sso they are being well looked after and actually the 22 is going through a ton of ground corn mixture from our feed mill in three weeks. Plus very good quality fescue/red clover hay. We use free access mineral and salt with no noticeable increase in her consumption. I thought maybe she was having toxicity issues which can result in increases in mineral consumption right? </p><p></p><p>We have seen cows do this before. She was just noticed to be losing weight over the past few days and it isn't a drastic weight change. I am thinking that she is also one of two cows that I never really liked the looks of. I bought a lock/stock/barrel herd of first and second calf heifers angus, murray and charlois crosses with an angus bull. I am thinking about putting a limosine or a simmetal bull on them when I get ready to start keeping replacements. She may very well grow wheels soon if we see a pattern here. Lee</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hillbillycwo, post: 729076, member: 13747"] Thanks Alice. I hope that she doesn't go down quick. My brother-in-law will check on her today but he must feed hay and he works public work too. If she is bad he is gonna have the vet come out and try to get her in the barn. I can't wait to get my cattle handling facilities in. That will make that task much easier for him until I retire from the navy and get home to manage my farm locally. We are just trying to get the herd paid for over the next few calving seasons and expect to loose a few cows due to the risk. We just do not want unnecessary suffering. Livestock is a synonym for deadstock I realize with the risks we are taking. I will post tomorrow as to what he finds out this evening. Additionally, my neighbor is helping watch my cows sso they are being well looked after and actually the 22 is going through a ton of ground corn mixture from our feed mill in three weeks. Plus very good quality fescue/red clover hay. We use free access mineral and salt with no noticeable increase in her consumption. I thought maybe she was having toxicity issues which can result in increases in mineral consumption right? We have seen cows do this before. She was just noticed to be losing weight over the past few days and it isn't a drastic weight change. I am thinking that she is also one of two cows that I never really liked the looks of. I bought a lock/stock/barrel herd of first and second calf heifers angus, murray and charlois crosses with an angus bull. I am thinking about putting a limosine or a simmetal bull on them when I get ready to start keeping replacements. She may very well grow wheels soon if we see a pattern here. Lee [/QUOTE]
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