Something already been suckin that front one.@MurraysMutts -she could use your calf graft magic!!!
Something already been suckin that front one.
We are so grateful for the green. What little there is. The burned pastures aren't doing much still.Better get em soon!!
And look at that green!
Yes she could! Get er done!!!@MurraysMutts -she could use your calf graft magic!!!
Did you get a few calves yet?@MurraysMutts -she could use your calf graft magic!!!
No, full time in town job, working with mama getting back home, and this old girl kicked the never mind out of a calf we tried last year. She's still got plenty, but the first freshening engorgement is improved and calf is making headway.Did you get a few calves yet?
I don't seem to have problems with the beef calves. Even grafting. Just these darn dairy calves. The beef calves are so darn expensive I tend to lean towards the dairy as they are cheap and I still make decent money on the steers from a buyer we have. But the week or more fights with the scours are starting to get to me.@Double R Ranch it seems to be hit or miss for me on the scours thing.
A good chunk of my calves bought never even scour at all. Some for a day or two. But I don't buy dairy calves except that one time. He's at my neighbors. Gonna be dinner eventually.
Good thinking then. Sounds like she should raise a whopper calf. Wonder if there's any dairy in her?No, full time in town job, working with mama getting back home, and this old girl kicked the never mind out of a calf we tried last year. She's still got plenty, but the first freshening engorgement is improved and calf is making headway.
If I remember right, as a heifer this girl had the edema along the milk vein in front of her udder…calf will just have to grow faster
We bought her from Texas A&M beef herd as a heifer-composite brangus. Might be…Good thinking then. Sounds like she should raise a whopper calf. Wonder if there's any dairy in her?
You need some brown swiss calves to put on her, I either put beef calves or brown swiss calves on my nurse cow. The brown swiss don't usually get the scours like the other dairy breeds.I don't seem to have problems with the beef calves. Even grafting. Just these darn dairy calves. The beef calves are so darn expensive I tend to lean towards the dairy as they are cheap and I still make decent money on the steers from a buyer we have. But the week or more fights with the scours are starting to get to me.
That's good to know. Will keep an eye out just in case one comes available. Thanks!!Yo
You need some brown swiss calves to put on her, I either put beef calves or brown swiss calves on my nurse cow. The brown swiss don't usually get the scours like the other dairy breeds.
I think that's why a lot of dairy calves get a bad rap. Everyone around here hates em. Too many die.The last calf I would buy is a brown swiss calf because they get killed at the market as feeder steers. Around here there are a couple breeders with swiss dairy animals... and the calves do grow pretty good... but I have talked to buyers at the one yard that has alot of dairy animals go through... and the one guy told me that swiss take so long to finish because they put on frame long before they put on meat, that they get too big and the kill plants do not like them. I have eaten 2 and by the time they are filled out enough to eat, they were both tough also... they were raised on cows not milk replacer, and I kept them for beef since the market was so bad for them...
I like my jerseys and don't seem to have much trouble with scours but you CAN NOT over feed them for the first 2-3 weeks....
There are A LOT of dairy herds that have the Rota and the Corona viruses... and the calves all seem to get sick in that 1-3 week period... also coccidiosis will seem to catch them around that time also... I am VERY PICKY about where the calves come from for that reason now. But as a preventative, when you get any calf, you need to treat as a preventative with corid for the cocci, and there is a paste that will help stop the rota and corona virus that you give at day one... can't remember the name as I haven't had to use it since I quit getting calves but a few trusted places.