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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1205513" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>You're welcome <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p> I forgot to mention year 2 when we lost 3 calves to scours, and had to doctor about 8 of them at a time in the barn, the whole lot of them on deaths door, certainly not fun times!</p><p> We've vaccinated for it since and have hardly had a case.. if we do, it's a little easier to doctor 1 calf than a pile of them.</p><p>We've had cows slip on ice and break their pelvis, we had one choke on a potato (a beautiful bred heifer we had high hopes for), One that went down in the chute while dehorning that bled out, uterine torsions, prolapses, calves twice as big as the cow could handle (just the first year), pinkeye, the atypical summer pneumonia (Panter) I mentioned, losses from 2 legged predators.. miscarriages, calves stepped on, calves born with their noses under irrigation pipes or backwards, upside down or legs the wrong way, broken legs, hardware poisoning, arthritis, mastitis, heat stroke and also real strokes.. </p><p></p><p>Starting with crappy cattle and no experience is a darned steep learning curve... Where was CT when we started out!</p><p>And then you see a bunch of happy calves nursing and playing, and it makes the tough times not suck so darned much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1205513, member: 9096"] You're welcome :) I forgot to mention year 2 when we lost 3 calves to scours, and had to doctor about 8 of them at a time in the barn, the whole lot of them on deaths door, certainly not fun times! We've vaccinated for it since and have hardly had a case.. if we do, it's a little easier to doctor 1 calf than a pile of them. We've had cows slip on ice and break their pelvis, we had one choke on a potato (a beautiful bred heifer we had high hopes for), One that went down in the chute while dehorning that bled out, uterine torsions, prolapses, calves twice as big as the cow could handle (just the first year), pinkeye, the atypical summer pneumonia (Panter) I mentioned, losses from 2 legged predators.. miscarriages, calves stepped on, calves born with their noses under irrigation pipes or backwards, upside down or legs the wrong way, broken legs, hardware poisoning, arthritis, mastitis, heat stroke and also real strokes.. Starting with crappy cattle and no experience is a darned steep learning curve... Where was CT when we started out! And then you see a bunch of happy calves nursing and playing, and it makes the tough times not suck so darned much. [/QUOTE]
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