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<blockquote data-quote="pdfangus" data-source="post: 597557" data-attributes="member: 6543"><p>I read all this with interest.</p><p></p><p>Not too many mentioned getting a birth weight.</p><p></p><p>I been tagging registered angus calves for thirty years.</p><p></p><p>In my youth I have been the tough guy would would back em down. I also been knocked on my keister and stomped on.</p><p></p><p>I tag every calf roughly 12 hours after it is born. Usually every afternoon after work. I do this riding thru the field on the tractor. I tag and weigh. I do not fool with newborn and wet calves. High stress time for cow. Young cows need a few hours to figure out what they are supposed to be doing. </p><p></p><p>Tag a calf from a heifer and drive her off in the process and have her not look back and you are raising a bottle calf. Give her twelve hours and she will not walk off.</p><p></p><p>I have put some emphasis on disposition on our cow herd for years. Our cows are very protective of the calves and will chase critters. but they know me and allow me to work the calves as long as I don't get everybody all riled up. slow and easy and don't give the calf a reason to bawl a lot and everything is okay. a bawling calf will get me surrounded by inquisitve mamas.</p><p></p><p>Now i am sixty. Needing surgery on my hand and can't catch calves. I bought one of those kalf catch hooks and really like it. Easy to catch the calf and when you have it caught it is still ten feet away and mama has a chance to assess the situation. I take a cow stick for self defense, but if you go to fighting a new mama you best be ready to win or lose cause one or the other is going to happen. I use the cow stick as a spacer. She is supposed to stay on one end of the stick and me on the other. five feet.</p><p></p><p>having caught, I walk up and throw calf and tie up feet. I usually want mama to give me five feet of room in this process. then I Let mama sniff while I go get tags and scales. when i walk back up I want my five feet of space again. tag and do what ever is needed and end up by weighing. I have two four foot pieces of pipe that plug together to make an eight foot pole and I hang the scale on one end and lift the calf to weigh. I might get killed by the first mama next year but I got thru this year tagging calves basically one handed.</p><p></p><p>a really tough cow wil get a check mark next to her name. We operate on a two strike policy. Two strikes and you are out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pdfangus, post: 597557, member: 6543"] I read all this with interest. Not too many mentioned getting a birth weight. I been tagging registered angus calves for thirty years. In my youth I have been the tough guy would would back em down. I also been knocked on my keister and stomped on. I tag every calf roughly 12 hours after it is born. Usually every afternoon after work. I do this riding thru the field on the tractor. I tag and weigh. I do not fool with newborn and wet calves. High stress time for cow. Young cows need a few hours to figure out what they are supposed to be doing. Tag a calf from a heifer and drive her off in the process and have her not look back and you are raising a bottle calf. Give her twelve hours and she will not walk off. I have put some emphasis on disposition on our cow herd for years. Our cows are very protective of the calves and will chase critters. but they know me and allow me to work the calves as long as I don't get everybody all riled up. slow and easy and don't give the calf a reason to bawl a lot and everything is okay. a bawling calf will get me surrounded by inquisitve mamas. Now i am sixty. Needing surgery on my hand and can't catch calves. I bought one of those kalf catch hooks and really like it. Easy to catch the calf and when you have it caught it is still ten feet away and mama has a chance to assess the situation. I take a cow stick for self defense, but if you go to fighting a new mama you best be ready to win or lose cause one or the other is going to happen. I use the cow stick as a spacer. She is supposed to stay on one end of the stick and me on the other. five feet. having caught, I walk up and throw calf and tie up feet. I usually want mama to give me five feet of room in this process. then I Let mama sniff while I go get tags and scales. when i walk back up I want my five feet of space again. tag and do what ever is needed and end up by weighing. I have two four foot pieces of pipe that plug together to make an eight foot pole and I hang the scale on one end and lift the calf to weigh. I might get killed by the first mama next year but I got thru this year tagging calves basically one handed. a really tough cow wil get a check mark next to her name. We operate on a two strike policy. Two strikes and you are out. [/QUOTE]
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