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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 863499" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>Last AI-sired calf born today - and she's a real cutie. I couldn't wait till evening to find out if it was a heifer or bull, was driving back on the tractor and just had to check.</p><p></p><p>Still 21 cows to calve. The grass is so short my milk cows are grazing down to around an inch - about 160 milkers and 20some dries on 75 ha! I've just put fertiliser and lime on about half the area, which is the first this farm has seen in around twenty years.</p><p></p><p>Bad run with the calves this year... I hadn't lost a rearable heifer since 2005, and first I had that sick calf I had to put down, then I found Annie's calf lying dead in the calf shed at four weeks old. The vet said it was clostridia. Bloody typical that it would take the top calf. I still have Annie's grand-daughter, Andrina in the shed, she was born a poor doer and after twice watching her go backwards on the group feeder I put her in a pen all alone and she's been growing great ever since. She's now with another three calves, another poor-looking crossbred that I thought would do better out of the group when I turfed the younger ones outside, and two that I've brought back in from that younger group - I had cull cows out with them for a few days and when they left one of the calves didn't come to the feeder, nor the next day (yesterday) and I figured if she did that once more she was getting on the tractor and coming home. She refused again today, so she got put on the tractor and back in the shed and got a bottle of warm milk which she drank.</p><p>Just enough scours to keep me on edge, but none of the calves have been sick because of it. One yesterday with her head hanging down refusing to suck, gave her two feeds of electrolyte by tube and she's back with the group at the feeder this morning, raring to go; and she's the worst I've seen so far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 863499, member: 9267"] Last AI-sired calf born today - and she's a real cutie. I couldn't wait till evening to find out if it was a heifer or bull, was driving back on the tractor and just had to check. Still 21 cows to calve. The grass is so short my milk cows are grazing down to around an inch - about 160 milkers and 20some dries on 75 ha! I've just put fertiliser and lime on about half the area, which is the first this farm has seen in around twenty years. Bad run with the calves this year... I hadn't lost a rearable heifer since 2005, and first I had that sick calf I had to put down, then I found Annie's calf lying dead in the calf shed at four weeks old. The vet said it was clostridia. Bloody typical that it would take the top calf. I still have Annie's grand-daughter, Andrina in the shed, she was born a poor doer and after twice watching her go backwards on the group feeder I put her in a pen all alone and she's been growing great ever since. She's now with another three calves, another poor-looking crossbred that I thought would do better out of the group when I turfed the younger ones outside, and two that I've brought back in from that younger group - I had cull cows out with them for a few days and when they left one of the calves didn't come to the feeder, nor the next day (yesterday) and I figured if she did that once more she was getting on the tractor and coming home. She refused again today, so she got put on the tractor and back in the shed and got a bottle of warm milk which she drank. Just enough scours to keep me on edge, but none of the calves have been sick because of it. One yesterday with her head hanging down refusing to suck, gave her two feeds of electrolyte by tube and she's back with the group at the feeder this morning, raring to go; and she's the worst I've seen so far. [/QUOTE]
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