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<blockquote data-quote="cowgirl8" data-source="post: 1665580" data-attributes="member: 22072"><p>So sorry.. We have only 10 heifers to calve out this year. Really hoped for 0, but, prices were down and it was a good crop of girls... Anywhoot, its been my experience with heifers is.... 1.. first one will be born dead. 2. You'll find a calf poop ( happens overnight while they are laying down, calf comes out and heifer just thinks she's pooped, calf lives half the time but we have to work to make the heifer know she had it)... 3. The heifer who decides someone elses calf is hers while she's in labor, ugh. 4. The heifer who just doesnt want a calf. 5. One will have a giant calf that has to be pulled, then its retarded and takes forever to get it on its mother, (doing that right now but could have been the first dead calf because i got out very early that morning and caught a glimpse of a yellow foot hanging out of her while laying down with everyone and she was doing nothing so it could have been a 1, 2, or 4...but since i found her in time, she was a 5.. ) This also goes for herds of cattle. We culled back hard this year due to the solar farm starting. Got rid of every bad udder, thin cow, all the older ones, but did that solve all the problems, nope. They get together and arrange for 1 to be paralyzed calving ( current cow forgot and went limp a week later and will be put down in the next few days if we see no improvement). 2.We'll have one skinny cow that makes us worry we'll find her dead but wont die till spring. 3. prolapse 4. Bad teats ( and i swear, i got rid of some really good cows because i did not want the problems their udders were headed for and if i get a calf who cant nurse, i'll just scream)......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowgirl8, post: 1665580, member: 22072"] So sorry.. We have only 10 heifers to calve out this year. Really hoped for 0, but, prices were down and it was a good crop of girls... Anywhoot, its been my experience with heifers is.... 1.. first one will be born dead. 2. You'll find a calf poop ( happens overnight while they are laying down, calf comes out and heifer just thinks she's pooped, calf lives half the time but we have to work to make the heifer know she had it)... 3. The heifer who decides someone elses calf is hers while she's in labor, ugh. 4. The heifer who just doesnt want a calf. 5. One will have a giant calf that has to be pulled, then its retarded and takes forever to get it on its mother, (doing that right now but could have been the first dead calf because i got out very early that morning and caught a glimpse of a yellow foot hanging out of her while laying down with everyone and she was doing nothing so it could have been a 1, 2, or 4...but since i found her in time, she was a 5.. ) This also goes for herds of cattle. We culled back hard this year due to the solar farm starting. Got rid of every bad udder, thin cow, all the older ones, but did that solve all the problems, nope. They get together and arrange for 1 to be paralyzed calving ( current cow forgot and went limp a week later and will be put down in the next few days if we see no improvement). 2.We'll have one skinny cow that makes us worry we'll find her dead but wont die till spring. 3. prolapse 4. Bad teats ( and i swear, i got rid of some really good cows because i did not want the problems their udders were headed for and if i get a calf who cant nurse, i'll just scream)...... [/QUOTE]
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