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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1463235" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>If the calf is born alive, then they raise it unless like the time we had a pack of dogs get in and killed 2 calves. And if they somehow have a dead calf, I will graft a calf on them so I don't lose the lactation. Heifers or cows. So live birth to weaning is 100%. We maybe have to graft one or two calves in a year out of over 150 cows calving. Last year I didn't have to graft any. I do put calves on my nurse cows but that is a whole different enterprise. We don't buy any bred heifers anymore and buying bred cows we usually average 9 raised out of 10 born. More often have a calf born dead than lose a live one even on the bought cows. And I have successfully grafted a calf on some bought cows, but they are iffy. Our home raised ones will take a calf 99.9% of the time if they lose theirs. Had a home raised cow that had a dead calf. Grafted one on. Had it 10 days, got under a foundation of an old house & got stuck and dead when we found it. Grafted a 2nd calf on her and she raised it. God bless her, she was so wound up that I thought she would just go crazy without her baby. Took her 2 weeks to fully accept her "new calf" but when we turned her out in a different place than where she lost the other, she was very protective when the other cows came up to check it out. That doesn't happen often. Bought cows that lose a calf just leave most of the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1463235, member: 25884"] If the calf is born alive, then they raise it unless like the time we had a pack of dogs get in and killed 2 calves. And if they somehow have a dead calf, I will graft a calf on them so I don't lose the lactation. Heifers or cows. So live birth to weaning is 100%. We maybe have to graft one or two calves in a year out of over 150 cows calving. Last year I didn't have to graft any. I do put calves on my nurse cows but that is a whole different enterprise. We don't buy any bred heifers anymore and buying bred cows we usually average 9 raised out of 10 born. More often have a calf born dead than lose a live one even on the bought cows. And I have successfully grafted a calf on some bought cows, but they are iffy. Our home raised ones will take a calf 99.9% of the time if they lose theirs. Had a home raised cow that had a dead calf. Grafted one on. Had it 10 days, got under a foundation of an old house & got stuck and dead when we found it. Grafted a 2nd calf on her and she raised it. God bless her, she was so wound up that I thought she would just go crazy without her baby. Took her 2 weeks to fully accept her "new calf" but when we turned her out in a different place than where she lost the other, she was very protective when the other cows came up to check it out. That doesn't happen often. Bought cows that lose a calf just leave most of the time. [/QUOTE]
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