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<blockquote data-quote="ClinchMountainBoy" data-source="post: 638323" data-attributes="member: 10017"><p>That's sage advice from novaman. It's too late this time probably but if you act fast you can get something where you had nothing when you do it. Before you try it look into how it is done, and be ready to treat the calf for scours that sometimes comes with changing the food source on a little calf. Sometimes you can even luck up and find a beef type calf to use, if someone you know had twins perhaps, or lost a cow but still has her calf. The best source of replacement calves is dairy farms though because they have bull calvesTall the time and have no use for them unless maybe they raise them for veal. The best way to get a cow to take a calf is to skin out the dead one and drape the new calf in its hide, at least you need a large part of the hide if you aren't good at skinning and use baling twine to tie it on real good. Once the calf has fed for a few days and the mothers milk starts coming out the other end in the form of feces, the bonding process is complete ans she will take it fully, since they know their calves by the smell. There is more to know if you havent done it before you should ask for more advice, lots of good folks here who would be happy to help. The lady who recommended never doing this has a valid point about biosecurity, but sometimes a slight risk is worth the end result, which is profit. I think sometimes people who don't have experience or the experience of others as a resource depend on all the stuff online you can read, and that's all well and good but nothing replaces experience. Don't select a calf that looks like it has problems, try and find a dairy that keeps these calves in a clean area and practices cleanliness, but don't be surprised when you get there if you have to drive through manure up to the wheel wells, a dairy can be a pretty nasty place, with the concentrated conditions and all. The main point to all this is that you can make the best of a bad situation, make profit when all you had was loss and some peole actually think doing things like this is fun (I do, except for the skinning part, which isn't that bad).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ClinchMountainBoy, post: 638323, member: 10017"] That's sage advice from novaman. It's too late this time probably but if you act fast you can get something where you had nothing when you do it. Before you try it look into how it is done, and be ready to treat the calf for scours that sometimes comes with changing the food source on a little calf. Sometimes you can even luck up and find a beef type calf to use, if someone you know had twins perhaps, or lost a cow but still has her calf. The best source of replacement calves is dairy farms though because they have bull calvesTall the time and have no use for them unless maybe they raise them for veal. The best way to get a cow to take a calf is to skin out the dead one and drape the new calf in its hide, at least you need a large part of the hide if you aren't good at skinning and use baling twine to tie it on real good. Once the calf has fed for a few days and the mothers milk starts coming out the other end in the form of feces, the bonding process is complete ans she will take it fully, since they know their calves by the smell. There is more to know if you havent done it before you should ask for more advice, lots of good folks here who would be happy to help. The lady who recommended never doing this has a valid point about biosecurity, but sometimes a slight risk is worth the end result, which is profit. I think sometimes people who don't have experience or the experience of others as a resource depend on all the stuff online you can read, and that's all well and good but nothing replaces experience. Don't select a calf that looks like it has problems, try and find a dairy that keeps these calves in a clean area and practices cleanliness, but don't be surprised when you get there if you have to drive through manure up to the wheel wells, a dairy can be a pretty nasty place, with the concentrated conditions and all. The main point to all this is that you can make the best of a bad situation, make profit when all you had was loss and some peole actually think doing things like this is fun (I do, except for the skinning part, which isn't that bad). [/QUOTE]
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