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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1276046" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>I, too, try not to intervene, unless absolutely necessary. First AI calf crops, years ago, by one particular Angus sire... if you disturbed them during the first 24 hours, the calves would get up and run like deer! Had one run a quarter mile and bail off into a rain-swollen creek. Another crossed 2 hot fences, a barbed wire fence, through the woods, crossed the highway and bedded down in a neighbor's pasture across the road. It's a wonder I managed to catch that one and get it back home. We quit using that sire... for that and other reasons... and have not experienced that problem again.</p><p></p><p>However, have had 3 teat/udder issues in the last month - 8 yr old cows with huge udders and big teats - I've been watching them closely the past 3 calvings, anticipating problems that didn't happen, but they finally all came home to roost this season. 12-24 hrs out and I was certain that the calf had not yet nursed. Two required just a pass or two through the chute for the calf to get started, and get to go back out to the pasture with the rest of the herd. </p><p>Third one...24 hrs out, I was pretty sure the calf had not nursed; she'd bawl and look for him, but if you put him right in front of her, it was like she didn't recognize him. Took him to the barn and fed him colostrum; took another 24 hrs to get her cut out and driven to the barn. She will let her calf nurse in the chute, but doesn't mother him or let him nurse unless restrained. 10 days in on putting her in the chute 2X a day... at least she's easy to handle, but I'm getting really disgusted with her. I've never had to go that long, even grafting a different calf onto a cow. This ain't her first rodeo... but it's the last one here for all three of these girls... hate to see 'em go, as they all raise a heck of a calf, but their time is up; they've committed the unforgiveable sin of making me put 'em in the chute to get their calves started.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1276046, member: 12607"] I, too, try not to intervene, unless absolutely necessary. First AI calf crops, years ago, by one particular Angus sire... if you disturbed them during the first 24 hours, the calves would get up and run like deer! Had one run a quarter mile and bail off into a rain-swollen creek. Another crossed 2 hot fences, a barbed wire fence, through the woods, crossed the highway and bedded down in a neighbor's pasture across the road. It's a wonder I managed to catch that one and get it back home. We quit using that sire... for that and other reasons... and have not experienced that problem again. However, have had 3 teat/udder issues in the last month - 8 yr old cows with huge udders and big teats - I've been watching them closely the past 3 calvings, anticipating problems that didn't happen, but they finally all came home to roost this season. 12-24 hrs out and I was certain that the calf had not yet nursed. Two required just a pass or two through the chute for the calf to get started, and get to go back out to the pasture with the rest of the herd. Third one...24 hrs out, I was pretty sure the calf had not nursed; she'd bawl and look for him, but if you put him right in front of her, it was like she didn't recognize him. Took him to the barn and fed him colostrum; took another 24 hrs to get her cut out and driven to the barn. She will let her calf nurse in the chute, but doesn't mother him or let him nurse unless restrained. 10 days in on putting her in the chute 2X a day... at least she's easy to handle, but I'm getting really disgusted with her. I've never had to go that long, even grafting a different calf onto a cow. This ain't her first rodeo... but it's the last one here for all three of these girls... hate to see 'em go, as they all raise a heck of a calf, but their time is up; they've committed the unforgiveable sin of making me put 'em in the chute to get their calves started. [/QUOTE]
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