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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 911165" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>Spoken by some-one who loves hard work!</p><p>If you're going to sell your other heifers to dairies after calving you'll need to get the milking system running anyway, to milk them after they calve. And bb is right, the ones you keep will be easier to sell next year if they're accustomed to being milked.</p><p>Grafting is less work than milking 2xdaily and bottle feeding. Having the milking plant going as well will take a lot of stress out of grafting. If I'm buying calves for winter, I get them about a month before drying the herd and hold the calves in a shed to start with, putting them on the cow at milking time. If they don't fully milk the cow out, round she goes to the milkers and gets milked before letting go. If the calves aren't fully fed, a bit of milk gets poured into a bottle and the calves get fed - when I'm ready to dry the herd off the cow and calves are keeping each other both milked out and fed and don't need any more attention and none of us have had to stress each other out getting to that stage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 911165, member: 9267"] Spoken by some-one who loves hard work! If you're going to sell your other heifers to dairies after calving you'll need to get the milking system running anyway, to milk them after they calve. And bb is right, the ones you keep will be easier to sell next year if they're accustomed to being milked. Grafting is less work than milking 2xdaily and bottle feeding. Having the milking plant going as well will take a lot of stress out of grafting. If I'm buying calves for winter, I get them about a month before drying the herd and hold the calves in a shed to start with, putting them on the cow at milking time. If they don't fully milk the cow out, round she goes to the milkers and gets milked before letting go. If the calves aren't fully fed, a bit of milk gets poured into a bottle and the calves get fed - when I'm ready to dry the herd off the cow and calves are keeping each other both milked out and fed and don't need any more attention and none of us have had to stress each other out getting to that stage. [/QUOTE]
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