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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1810667" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>[USER=39373]@MurraysMutts[/USER] and [USER=25884]@farmerjan[/USER] , thanks so much for y'all's inputs. This is something I know very litte abouit. I had a friend when I was in college, that lived on a big row crop farm...cotton, beans and corn, He had this red Holstein cowm, that he kept in about a half acre lot with a liottle barn and a shed off the barn in the lot. Back then, we had a lot of daairies around here, and spring and fall quarters I would go to night classes and worked at Gold Kist ( Co-Op) during the day driving spreader trucks. We had feed ruoutes too, that we ran every day,,,whoever wasn't spreading....delivering mostly to dairies. I think we had 2 stables and 2 bog pig farms, too. Gold Kist had dairy cow feed , Kow Power and Milk Maker, in 100# and 50# bags. Jimmy was on one of my ruotes and about every other time he had some dairy feed on it. Usually two bags. Had a concrete slab under the shed with a feed trough in oit. Jimmy would go to one of the dairies and buy a calf after his cow freshened, seems l;ioke it was about 3-4 weeks apart. A bottle bull calf back then was $10. Dairymen bred their heifers to angus of herford bulls. Seem like 1 close to me used Brahmas., and these are what he would buy if he found one. Other wise he'd buy Holstein bull claves. He always had 2 baby pics in there with her and the calves, , and I guess 6-8 hens. He raised those 2 pigs and the chickens off the food the cow dropped. He fed her a 3 gallon bucket of that dairy feed, and kept hay in her rack. He had an old small cotton wagon under the barn, that he would fill up every fall with ears of corn he pulled . He'd give her a bushel basket of those ears of corn every day too. So, pretty smart to raise 4 calves, 2 pigs and enough chickens that he sold farm eggs to people. That is the extent of my experience with bottle babies and nurse cows. </p><p>Y'all keep posting. I have learned a lot already!!! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1810667, member: 40587"] [USER=39373]@MurraysMutts[/USER] and [USER=25884]@farmerjan[/USER] , thanks so much for y'all's inputs. This is something I know very litte abouit. I had a friend when I was in college, that lived on a big row crop farm...cotton, beans and corn, He had this red Holstein cowm, that he kept in about a half acre lot with a liottle barn and a shed off the barn in the lot. Back then, we had a lot of daairies around here, and spring and fall quarters I would go to night classes and worked at Gold Kist ( Co-Op) during the day driving spreader trucks. We had feed ruoutes too, that we ran every day,,,whoever wasn't spreading....delivering mostly to dairies. I think we had 2 stables and 2 bog pig farms, too. Gold Kist had dairy cow feed , Kow Power and Milk Maker, in 100# and 50# bags. Jimmy was on one of my ruotes and about every other time he had some dairy feed on it. Usually two bags. Had a concrete slab under the shed with a feed trough in oit. Jimmy would go to one of the dairies and buy a calf after his cow freshened, seems l;ioke it was about 3-4 weeks apart. A bottle bull calf back then was $10. Dairymen bred their heifers to angus of herford bulls. Seem like 1 close to me used Brahmas., and these are what he would buy if he found one. Other wise he'd buy Holstein bull claves. He always had 2 baby pics in there with her and the calves, , and I guess 6-8 hens. He raised those 2 pigs and the chickens off the food the cow dropped. He fed her a 3 gallon bucket of that dairy feed, and kept hay in her rack. He had an old small cotton wagon under the barn, that he would fill up every fall with ears of corn he pulled . He'd give her a bushel basket of those ears of corn every day too. So, pretty smart to raise 4 calves, 2 pigs and enough chickens that he sold farm eggs to people. That is the extent of my experience with bottle babies and nurse cows. Y'all keep posting. I have learned a lot already!!! :) [/QUOTE]
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