Vultures

[Caustic Burno]

The black Devils are the plague SSS all you can. I have even seen them run an eagle off with their gang mentality.

 

[cfpinz]

We are calving right now and there are four turkey vultures cleaning up After births. After reading these posts I have been keeping a close eye on them.

Your cows don't eat the afterbirth?

 

[Margonme]

We are calving right now and there are four turkey vultures cleaning up After births. After reading these posts I have been keeping a close eye on them.

Your cows don't eat the afterbirth?

Some of mine do. Some of mine don't. But if I find it before they can eat it, I take charge of disposing of it.

 

[cfpinz]

We are calving right now and there are four turkey vultures cleaning up After births. After reading these posts I have been keeping a close eye on them.

Your cows don't eat the afterbirth?

Some of mine do. Some of mine don't. But if I find it before they can eat it, I take charge of disposing of it.

Interfering with Mother Nature, that usually turns out well.

 

[True Grit Farms]

Your cows don't eat the afterbirth?

Some of mine do. Some of mine don't. But if I find it before they can eat it, I take charge of disposing of it.

Interfering with Mother Nature, that usually turns out well.

Well I know of two cows that have choked on eating afterbirth. So we dispose of any we find.

 

[TCRanch]

Some of mine do. Some of mine don't. But if I find it before they can eat it, I take charge of disposing of it.

Interfering with Mother Nature, that usually turns out well.

Well I know of two cows that have choked on eating afterbirth. So we dispose of any we find.

I've heard of that happening. Scary! Most of our cows eat the afterbirth but not all (and not just heifers). If it's still there after a couple hours we get rid of it.

 

[TexasBred]

Your cows don't eat the afterbirth?

Some of mine do. Some of mine don't. But if I find it before they can eat it, I take charge of disposing of it.

Interfering with Mother Nature, that usually turns out well.

In the case of afterbirth it certainly doesn't hurt anything.

 

[cfpinz]

Some of mine do. Some of mine don't. But if I find it before they can eat it, I take charge of disposing of it.

Interfering with Mother Nature, that usually turns out well.

In the case of afterbirth it certainly doesn't hurt anything.

I've read that there is a fair amount of nutrients present in afterbirth, though it doesn't look very appealing to me.

The only afterbirth I've ever had to dispose of was when we had a cow calve or we pulled the calf in the barn, and I got tired of stepping over it and didn't want the dog to eat it. Otherwise, nature will take it's course, one way or the other.