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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 637711" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>If you have no disire to ship one of the dams, I would leave them together. But, with that decision, you do not want to ship one after a month or so, because a cow produces what is "asked" of her. If calf is getting 1/2 from one and 1/2 from the other, than both dams are not producing the highest volume that they "could" be producing. This will affect the rest of her production this year. Yes, once the calf started nursing just the one mom, her milk production will increase, but not to the max potential.</p><p>This will not affect next years production.</p><p>I (personnally) would NEVER recommend to anyone to get a dairy calf to splice on a cow.</p><p>You have to realize that no matter how healthy the "new" calf is, and how great a health program the farm where the calf came from; the "new" calf is carrying "bugs" that it is immune to but may be totally different than the "bugs" your newborn calves are getting immunity from their dam. When you put the two together they "swap" bugs & can easily start a health risk - causing different types of scours or respiratory problems. NEVER worth the risk. One "new" healthy calf can infect ALL your newborns.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 637711, member: 968"] If you have no disire to ship one of the dams, I would leave them together. But, with that decision, you do not want to ship one after a month or so, because a cow produces what is "asked" of her. If calf is getting 1/2 from one and 1/2 from the other, than both dams are not producing the highest volume that they "could" be producing. This will affect the rest of her production this year. Yes, once the calf started nursing just the one mom, her milk production will increase, but not to the max potential. This will not affect next years production. I (personnally) would NEVER recommend to anyone to get a dairy calf to splice on a cow. You have to realize that no matter how healthy the "new" calf is, and how great a health program the farm where the calf came from; the "new" calf is carrying "bugs" that it is immune to but may be totally different than the "bugs" your newborn calves are getting immunity from their dam. When you put the two together they "swap" bugs & can easily start a health risk - causing different types of scours or respiratory problems. NEVER worth the risk. One "new" healthy calf can infect ALL your newborns. [/QUOTE]
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