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<blockquote data-quote="cowgirl8" data-source="post: 1125475" data-attributes="member: 22072"><p>Since i've been in the business for 35 years, we've had thousands of calves. Now, my responsibility is for every calf to hit the ground alive. I'm out there a lot..Now, take preemie calves, if you dont get there hours after they are born something is going to eat it. If you dont see this preemie, you dont know what it looked like. It was aborted for a reason and its usually clear as to why. Ever have a cow that you thought was going to calve but in the end she has no calf. You never saw the calf, so how do you know something wasnt wrong with it. How about the cow who died, did you cut her open? Did you find her already partly eaten? First thing vultures and coyotes love eating is the calf. They dig in there a feast, you find it, hum wonder why she died could it be she had a dead 2 headed calf in there festering? Almost nothing gets past me, i see everything. If you're just checking your cows once a day, your missing tons of things. If you have a handful of cows, averages is the only way to know if things are normal. If i had 20 cows, sure, this would seem weird. But out of those 20 cows and you have one thing every other year happen, my averages are going to be the same or better...Averages, averages..... Speaking of averages, the uhoh calf brought our calf crop up in averages..instead of a loss of 4, its now 3..Now if i could just have a several sets of twins, i'd like to have a loss of 0</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowgirl8, post: 1125475, member: 22072"] Since i've been in the business for 35 years, we've had thousands of calves. Now, my responsibility is for every calf to hit the ground alive. I'm out there a lot..Now, take preemie calves, if you dont get there hours after they are born something is going to eat it. If you dont see this preemie, you dont know what it looked like. It was aborted for a reason and its usually clear as to why. Ever have a cow that you thought was going to calve but in the end she has no calf. You never saw the calf, so how do you know something wasnt wrong with it. How about the cow who died, did you cut her open? Did you find her already partly eaten? First thing vultures and coyotes love eating is the calf. They dig in there a feast, you find it, hum wonder why she died could it be she had a dead 2 headed calf in there festering? Almost nothing gets past me, i see everything. If you're just checking your cows once a day, your missing tons of things. If you have a handful of cows, averages is the only way to know if things are normal. If i had 20 cows, sure, this would seem weird. But out of those 20 cows and you have one thing every other year happen, my averages are going to be the same or better...Averages, averages..... Speaking of averages, the uhoh calf brought our calf crop up in averages..instead of a loss of 4, its now 3..Now if i could just have a several sets of twins, i'd like to have a loss of 0 [/QUOTE]
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