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<blockquote data-quote="novaman" data-source="post: 360077" data-attributes="member: 2744"><p>In my opinion there really isn't an acceptable rate. Mine varies quite a bit from year to year. This year has been really bad for me. The winter was mild and then we hit a couple cold snaps closer to calving. Caused a few cows to calve premature. This was true for a lot of people in my area and the vet agrees that the weather was the cause so that's uncontrollable. Lately the weather has been into the upper 70's during the day and dropping into the 20's at night. Now I've been treating animals (both cows and calves) for pneumonia. Despite walking through the animals a few times everyday I have lost a couple younger calves from being sick and not being able to bring them back. The weather just doesn't cooperate sometimes. Some years will be good and the mortality rate will be in the low single digits but other years it can be in the upper single digits. I also feel it depends on the number of cattle that an individual runs. A person that runs fewer head can monitor the cattle more closely. However, the guy that runs several hundred head can keep his death rates down despite having a few premies. I feel that you need to take the good with the bad and just be happy that you've got live calves running around. I know a guy that needed to buy feed and it ended up being contaminated and lost their entire calf crop.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novaman, post: 360077, member: 2744"] In my opinion there really isn't an acceptable rate. Mine varies quite a bit from year to year. This year has been really bad for me. The winter was mild and then we hit a couple cold snaps closer to calving. Caused a few cows to calve premature. This was true for a lot of people in my area and the vet agrees that the weather was the cause so that's uncontrollable. Lately the weather has been into the upper 70's during the day and dropping into the 20's at night. Now I've been treating animals (both cows and calves) for pneumonia. Despite walking through the animals a few times everyday I have lost a couple younger calves from being sick and not being able to bring them back. The weather just doesn't cooperate sometimes. Some years will be good and the mortality rate will be in the low single digits but other years it can be in the upper single digits. I also feel it depends on the number of cattle that an individual runs. A person that runs fewer head can monitor the cattle more closely. However, the guy that runs several hundred head can keep his death rates down despite having a few premies. I feel that you need to take the good with the bad and just be happy that you've got live calves running around. I know a guy that needed to buy feed and it ended up being contaminated and lost their entire calf crop. [/QUOTE]
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