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<blockquote data-quote="Alice" data-source="post: 263607" data-attributes="member: 3873"><p>Thanks, Msscamp. I've always been a big believer that stress was a big contributor to illnesses in calves and calves doing poorly when I bring them home from the sale barn. When my calves get loaded at the sale barn I stand there and watch those people, mostly kids/college kids, load the calves. If I see one of them handle one roughly, he or she gets the sharp side of my tongue and the lecture: "Look, bubba, I paid good money for that calf. This calf has already been thru getting dumped on a trailer, dumped off a trailer, prodded with hot shots, run thru a ring and frightened to death, then stuck in a holdng pen with a jillion other calves. Now you rough it up...and I get to go home and spend more time and money treating it for the scours that I can assure you will happen now. What's your name, anyway?"</p><p></p><p>The big calf buyer around here isn't even that nice when he sees his calves get roughed up and stressed. My brother saw him once come close to hitting someone for it.</p><p></p><p>These holstein calves bought at the sale barn are hard enough to keep alive as it is, dangit...and I'll get off my soap box now. Ahem, ok, I'm cool...I'm cool.</p><p></p><p>Thanks agin, msscamp...I feel a bit more validtion in my stress theory now...and those kids had better watch out...ahem, ok, I'm cool, I'm cool...</p><p></p><p>Alice</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alice, post: 263607, member: 3873"] Thanks, Msscamp. I've always been a big believer that stress was a big contributor to illnesses in calves and calves doing poorly when I bring them home from the sale barn. When my calves get loaded at the sale barn I stand there and watch those people, mostly kids/college kids, load the calves. If I see one of them handle one roughly, he or she gets the sharp side of my tongue and the lecture: "Look, bubba, I paid good money for that calf. This calf has already been thru getting dumped on a trailer, dumped off a trailer, prodded with hot shots, run thru a ring and frightened to death, then stuck in a holdng pen with a jillion other calves. Now you rough it up...and I get to go home and spend more time and money treating it for the scours that I can assure you will happen now. What's your name, anyway?" The big calf buyer around here isn't even that nice when he sees his calves get roughed up and stressed. My brother saw him once come close to hitting someone for it. These holstein calves bought at the sale barn are hard enough to keep alive as it is, dangit...and I'll get off my soap box now. Ahem, ok, I'm cool...I'm cool. Thanks agin, msscamp...I feel a bit more validtion in my stress theory now...and those kids had better watch out...ahem, ok, I'm cool, I'm cool... Alice [/QUOTE]
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