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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 812480" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>She should make more. </p><p></p><p>The senior nurse cow I have now came from a dairy in '03. She's 1/2 jersey and 1/2 holstein. </p><p></p><p>I had a rejected twin. I brought her here to the house and managed to save her. It was touch a go for a week but she pulled through with a lot of TLC. That gave me a bottle baby with a twice a day comittment. It makes no sense to me to do one bottle baby only. It is about as easy to do ten as it is to do one. I rig chutes for them and put the bottles in racks. Go out before work and put them in the chutes and disberse the bottles. Go back and let them out and pick up the bottles. etc. </p><p></p><p>So I went and picked up a few more bottle babies and picked up this dairy heifer. I groomed her to be a nurse cow. Two of her heifers have turned out to be nurse cows as well. Two more have not. Bear in mind that the senior nurse cow has only been bred to a brangus bull her whole life. </p><p></p><p>This is a pic of her in a nurse crate when I was milking out colostrums a couple of years back. <a href="http://ranchers.net/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/7078/ppuser/2144" target="_blank">http://ranchers.net/photopost/showphoto ... puser/2144</a></p><p></p><p>When I graft a new set of calves onto her, I put her in the crate. IT just makes it easier. Once the calves have nursed three or so days, they all have her scent. </p><p></p><p>I have had beef heifers reject calves and crated them as well. This crate has been well worth the effort.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 812480, member: 3162"] She should make more. The senior nurse cow I have now came from a dairy in '03. She's 1/2 jersey and 1/2 holstein. I had a rejected twin. I brought her here to the house and managed to save her. It was touch a go for a week but she pulled through with a lot of TLC. That gave me a bottle baby with a twice a day comittment. It makes no sense to me to do one bottle baby only. It is about as easy to do ten as it is to do one. I rig chutes for them and put the bottles in racks. Go out before work and put them in the chutes and disberse the bottles. Go back and let them out and pick up the bottles. etc. So I went and picked up a few more bottle babies and picked up this dairy heifer. I groomed her to be a nurse cow. Two of her heifers have turned out to be nurse cows as well. Two more have not. Bear in mind that the senior nurse cow has only been bred to a brangus bull her whole life. This is a pic of her in a nurse crate when I was milking out colostrums a couple of years back. [url=http://ranchers.net/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/7078/ppuser/2144]http://ranchers.net/photopost/showphoto ... puser/2144[/url] When I graft a new set of calves onto her, I put her in the crate. IT just makes it easier. Once the calves have nursed three or so days, they all have her scent. I have had beef heifers reject calves and crated them as well. This crate has been well worth the effort. [/QUOTE]
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