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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 706434" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>Have you ever heard the term or lyric, "Get along little doggy" ??? That is what you have on your hands with that big grass belly. </p><p></p><p>In the old days a "doggy" was an orphan. Toothpick legs and a huge grass belly from lack of nutrition. Most have that puppy with worms look to them. You can go to the sale barn and see dozens of doggied calves that were raised on a bottle. No one goes through the effort to try and get these calves back to normal, if it is possible. </p><p></p><p>A bottle calf raised with proper nutrition will not look like a doggy. It seems a lot of folks go through the motions with no intent of putting the effort or expense in to keeping them up. You'll also find a ton of bad information on bottle calves right here in this forum in my opinion. </p><p></p><p>There's no telling how many hundreds we have raised going back to my earliest childhood, nearly 50 years ago. Each year I graft several to my nurse cows too. I have NEVER lost one. People are going to come on here crying BS so let me say it again, I HAVE NEVER LOST A BOTTLE OR GRAFTED CALF. There are many in my herd now and they serve to gentle down the whole bunch. Most are larger than my average commercial cows. And yes most were grafts but at least 6 were bottle raised. </p><p></p><p>When they get proper feed, it costs pennies per day. The yield at the sale barn is much greater than flipping a doggy through the ring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 706434, member: 3162"] Have you ever heard the term or lyric, "Get along little doggy" ??? That is what you have on your hands with that big grass belly. In the old days a "doggy" was an orphan. Toothpick legs and a huge grass belly from lack of nutrition. Most have that puppy with worms look to them. You can go to the sale barn and see dozens of doggied calves that were raised on a bottle. No one goes through the effort to try and get these calves back to normal, if it is possible. A bottle calf raised with proper nutrition will not look like a doggy. It seems a lot of folks go through the motions with no intent of putting the effort or expense in to keeping them up. You'll also find a ton of bad information on bottle calves right here in this forum in my opinion. There's no telling how many hundreds we have raised going back to my earliest childhood, nearly 50 years ago. Each year I graft several to my nurse cows too. I have NEVER lost one. People are going to come on here crying BS so let me say it again, I HAVE NEVER LOST A BOTTLE OR GRAFTED CALF. There are many in my herd now and they serve to gentle down the whole bunch. Most are larger than my average commercial cows. And yes most were grafts but at least 6 were bottle raised. When they get proper feed, it costs pennies per day. The yield at the sale barn is much greater than flipping a doggy through the ring. [/QUOTE]
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