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Vaccinating newborn calves - am I an idiot?
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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 637373" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>I seem to remember reading something somewhere saying that it does no good to vacinate a newborn calf, providing it's on Mom's milk and starts out healthy.</p><p></p><p>Most of the time I am not around at calving but did catch a couple on their first day. Put an ear tag in a couple but then did not like the look in one cow's eye and decided maybe that one could wait. If you get them in the first couple hours it seems easier than later. I did take notes on markings so I could remember which of the untagged calves went with which cow. </p><p></p><p>Put iodine on the umbilical cord of a couple, not on most and really did not seem to matter. Maybe a key is to let them calve on a relatively clean pasture area.</p><p></p><p>A couple weeks later went back to the old sweet feed in the corral treat routine and most of the calves seemed to just follow Mom into the corral. Let them out through the chute stopping the untagged calves just long enough to put on an eartag. Did not seem to be much problem telling which calf went with which cow.</p><p></p><p>My vet then gave the calves their first shots during the summer herd visit in July when they were 3-4 months old.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 637373, member: 7509"] I seem to remember reading something somewhere saying that it does no good to vacinate a newborn calf, providing it's on Mom's milk and starts out healthy. Most of the time I am not around at calving but did catch a couple on their first day. Put an ear tag in a couple but then did not like the look in one cow's eye and decided maybe that one could wait. If you get them in the first couple hours it seems easier than later. I did take notes on markings so I could remember which of the untagged calves went with which cow. Put iodine on the umbilical cord of a couple, not on most and really did not seem to matter. Maybe a key is to let them calve on a relatively clean pasture area. A couple weeks later went back to the old sweet feed in the corral treat routine and most of the calves seemed to just follow Mom into the corral. Let them out through the chute stopping the untagged calves just long enough to put on an eartag. Did not seem to be much problem telling which calf went with which cow. My vet then gave the calves their first shots during the summer herd visit in July when they were 3-4 months old. [/QUOTE]
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