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I have a heifer that calved 8-26-07........
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<blockquote data-quote="rockridgecattle" data-source="post: 431311" data-attributes="member: 6198"><p><strong>BUT</strong>, and it's a big but. If you send the cow and calf down the road you are sending your problem on to someone unsuspecting and that is not what a good cattle farmer does. Why shift your problems and grief to someone else.</p><p>The way i see it and it's JMO, you have three choices,</p><p>1 work with both the cow and the calf and try to make it work and then ship both at weaning, do not keep the calf for a replacement,</p><p>2 milk the cow so as not to spend a fortune on milk replacer, but if the cow will beat the calf it's a good chance your body will take a beating if the cow is not restrained.</p><p>3 ship the cow and bottle feed the calf.</p><p>Unloading your problem on some poor sap is not good business sense in the long run. Just hurts your rep and the rep of cattle producers big and small.</p><p>I've worked with a heiffer for almost 3 weeks. It took patience, pannels, no mat pen yet at that time, calf claim, sugar, and the handle of a hay fork over the head several several times.</p><p></p><p>Good luck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rockridgecattle, post: 431311, member: 6198"] [b]BUT[/b], and it's a big but. If you send the cow and calf down the road you are sending your problem on to someone unsuspecting and that is not what a good cattle farmer does. Why shift your problems and grief to someone else. The way i see it and it's JMO, you have three choices, 1 work with both the cow and the calf and try to make it work and then ship both at weaning, do not keep the calf for a replacement, 2 milk the cow so as not to spend a fortune on milk replacer, but if the cow will beat the calf it's a good chance your body will take a beating if the cow is not restrained. 3 ship the cow and bottle feed the calf. Unloading your problem on some poor sap is not good business sense in the long run. Just hurts your rep and the rep of cattle producers big and small. I've worked with a heiffer for almost 3 weeks. It took patience, pannels, no mat pen yet at that time, calf claim, sugar, and the handle of a hay fork over the head several several times. Good luck [/QUOTE]
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