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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 87009" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>i buy most of my cattle from a sales barn. anytime i buy a baby calf, whether it is in a cow-calf pair or to put on a bottle, i give it 5 cc's of baytril before i unload it at home. they have been in the presence of alot of diseases. you would be better off to buy a calf from a local farmer, it wont have been in the sales barn environment.</p><p> if you buy one at the sales barn, the safest thing is to buy one that is being split from its mother and is 2 months old, that way you wont have to feed it milk. the problem with that right now is the investment---that calf will cost 300 - 400 dollars now.</p><p> find a dairy farm and buy a holstein bull calf fresh from them and you will have the best chance for a healthy calf that is affordable.</p><p> if you want one to keep for a cow, go to the sales barn and when they split an old cow with a small heifer calf, buy that calf if it is the kind you want.</p><p> one thing i always have to remember when i cant seem to save a calf is what i was told when i was a kid-----some calves are just born to die-----sounds cold, but sometimes, no matter what you do, the calf doesnt make it----not always your fault.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 87009, member: 1150"] i buy most of my cattle from a sales barn. anytime i buy a baby calf, whether it is in a cow-calf pair or to put on a bottle, i give it 5 cc's of baytril before i unload it at home. they have been in the presence of alot of diseases. you would be better off to buy a calf from a local farmer, it wont have been in the sales barn environment. if you buy one at the sales barn, the safest thing is to buy one that is being split from its mother and is 2 months old, that way you wont have to feed it milk. the problem with that right now is the investment---that calf will cost 300 - 400 dollars now. find a dairy farm and buy a holstein bull calf fresh from them and you will have the best chance for a healthy calf that is affordable. if you want one to keep for a cow, go to the sales barn and when they split an old cow with a small heifer calf, buy that calf if it is the kind you want. one thing i always have to remember when i cant seem to save a calf is what i was told when i was a kid-----some calves are just born to die-----sounds cold, but sometimes, no matter what you do, the calf doesnt make it----not always your fault. [/QUOTE]
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