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Milk? where did it go?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 645041" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>OK, update for you all on this</p><p>after milking her 3 times a day for the last 10 days or so, I'm still getting only a cup per milking, and last night even less, I've written her off, she's more hassle than she's worth, and the calf is drinking from the bottle... if she were a cooperative cow, i'd continue a little more, but she's the dumbest sack of bricks I've seen in a long time, every time, I bring her down the chute to milk, and every time I have to beat her ass 5 times around the corral before she'll go (the calf is at the end of the chute too) and then she'll run right on down... As for her health, she's in perfect health, good appetite, no uterine infection or anything the like, no mastitis we can detect, the milk she does give is good, and the the bag isn't hard, she's always got water, we force fed her some salt (this has helped in the past) to make her drink more, that didn't help, and she's getting the best hay we have, which is indeed good hay... so off to the sale barn with her, or the deep freeze.. I've had it.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, we have a cow that lost her calf last year because she let every other calf suck on her until she had none left for her own, this year she's raising a bomber heifer which has the physique of a bull, she's just huge, so I'm going to see if i can graft the little guy on to her, and so far, it's not working too badly, at least she's not mean to him, and we can always feed him a little extra as well...</p><p></p><p>Also, fo the milk replacer question, it wasnt' the milk replacer that was aweful smelling, it was the fake colostrum, the milk replacer we have is ok, he drinks it happily</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 645041, member: 9096"] OK, update for you all on this after milking her 3 times a day for the last 10 days or so, I'm still getting only a cup per milking, and last night even less, I've written her off, she's more hassle than she's worth, and the calf is drinking from the bottle... if she were a cooperative cow, i'd continue a little more, but she's the dumbest sack of bricks I've seen in a long time, every time, I bring her down the chute to milk, and every time I have to beat her ass 5 times around the corral before she'll go (the calf is at the end of the chute too) and then she'll run right on down... As for her health, she's in perfect health, good appetite, no uterine infection or anything the like, no mastitis we can detect, the milk she does give is good, and the the bag isn't hard, she's always got water, we force fed her some salt (this has helped in the past) to make her drink more, that didn't help, and she's getting the best hay we have, which is indeed good hay... so off to the sale barn with her, or the deep freeze.. I've had it. Meanwhile, we have a cow that lost her calf last year because she let every other calf suck on her until she had none left for her own, this year she's raising a bomber heifer which has the physique of a bull, she's just huge, so I'm going to see if i can graft the little guy on to her, and so far, it's not working too badly, at least she's not mean to him, and we can always feed him a little extra as well... Also, fo the milk replacer question, it wasnt' the milk replacer that was aweful smelling, it was the fake colostrum, the milk replacer we have is ok, he drinks it happily [/QUOTE]
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