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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1482409" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Watch very closely for the one sucking on a bred heifer. It will ruin her udder quicker than you can believe. Test at a dairy that had 6 heifers come in with only 2 or 3 good quarters. Turns out they caught another heifer that had calved, that had been in that group, go to sucking on a couple of the cows in the holding pen waiting to come in the parlour to be milked. She has a permanent nose flap but if she was mine her throat would have been cut or she would have made a beeline for the Mcdonalds plant. She ruined the udders on 6 dairy heifers by sucking the quarters when they were in the pasture.</p><p> That one tolerating for even a minute or two can be the start of a problem as it will cause her to like it more as she udders up, and will steal the colostrum at best, or cause mastitis even before the other heifer calves. If you are going to keep her with any other female, put a nose flap in her or ship her now. Don't let her ruin a good heifer that you could sell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1482409, member: 25884"] Watch very closely for the one sucking on a bred heifer. It will ruin her udder quicker than you can believe. Test at a dairy that had 6 heifers come in with only 2 or 3 good quarters. Turns out they caught another heifer that had calved, that had been in that group, go to sucking on a couple of the cows in the holding pen waiting to come in the parlour to be milked. She has a permanent nose flap but if she was mine her throat would have been cut or she would have made a beeline for the Mcdonalds plant. She ruined the udders on 6 dairy heifers by sucking the quarters when they were in the pasture. That one tolerating for even a minute or two can be the start of a problem as it will cause her to like it more as she udders up, and will steal the colostrum at best, or cause mastitis even before the other heifer calves. If you are going to keep her with any other female, put a nose flap in her or ship her now. Don't let her ruin a good heifer that you could sell. [/QUOTE]
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