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First calf spring 2011
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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 848742" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>The calf with the gray eyes:</p><p><img src="http://ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/medium/349_calf_grey_eyed_heifer.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The action's all stopped here - haven't seen a new calf since the hours of dark yesterday morning. I'm bored already.</p><p>So when do you think she'll calve?</p><p><img src="http://ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/medium/361_precalving.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>One that has calved:</p><p><img src="http://ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/medium/367_and_heifer_calf.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I had a big mob of calves less than two weeks old all eating grass this morning when I let the group through onto their new break (??)</p><p>The babies will be brought in once I've got enough cows calved to start supplying milk to the factory... I'm just trying to pretend I haven't read all the stuff that says they have to be immediately whisked off to a warm dry shed, tubed with colostrum and deprived of grass lest it composts in their stomach.</p><p></p><p>Calved heifers are behaving well at milking time. The one in the picture above isn't 'blind' in the front left teat because I can get a few drops of milk from it - but it feels blind, like there's a rope sitting inside it, and she doesn't milk out properly on it. I suspect she's good as three-quartered.</p><p>I've got another with a huge udder that the teats swell up so she can't milk out fully, normally time and maybe a shot of oxytocin sorts that problem. Some folks would say heifers should be fed less pre-calving to prevent that.</p><p>"Well" is a relative term - the 08 heifers' behaviour was a total embarassment to me last year. These ones are better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 848742, member: 9267"] The calf with the gray eyes: [img]http://ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/medium/349_calf_grey_eyed_heifer.JPG[/img] The action's all stopped here - haven't seen a new calf since the hours of dark yesterday morning. I'm bored already. So when do you think she'll calve? [img]http://ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/medium/361_precalving.JPG[/img] One that has calved: [img]http://ranchers.net/photopost/data/500/medium/367_and_heifer_calf.JPG[/img] I had a big mob of calves less than two weeks old all eating grass this morning when I let the group through onto their new break (??) The babies will be brought in once I've got enough cows calved to start supplying milk to the factory... I'm just trying to pretend I haven't read all the stuff that says they have to be immediately whisked off to a warm dry shed, tubed with colostrum and deprived of grass lest it composts in their stomach. Calved heifers are behaving well at milking time. The one in the picture above isn't 'blind' in the front left teat because I can get a few drops of milk from it - but it feels blind, like there's a rope sitting inside it, and she doesn't milk out properly on it. I suspect she's good as three-quartered. I've got another with a huge udder that the teats swell up so she can't milk out fully, normally time and maybe a shot of oxytocin sorts that problem. Some folks would say heifers should be fed less pre-calving to prevent that. "Well" is a relative term - the 08 heifers' behaviour was a total embarassment to me last year. These ones are better. [/QUOTE]
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