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<blockquote data-quote="ENNOT" data-source="post: 342077" data-attributes="member: 3562"><p>Sorry about your lose, but if you are gonna have them, you are gonna lose them. I was feeling about like you a couple weeks ago when I pulled in and found my favorite 1st calf heifer dead with the calf half way out. There is not a whole lot you can do unless you get up every two hours during the night. I did that in college with the college beef herd and we lost just as many as if we had slept all night.</p><p></p><p>We run around 200 head and the cows are lucky to get checked twice a day. We check the first calvers twice a day since they are sometimes stupid. We have all of our replacement heifers out on pasture and they are lucky to get check two to three times a week. We run out on crop residue circles in the winter that are 25 miles from home. At some point you need to cut your costs somehow. You need to make sure you have cattle that can do it on their own.</p><p></p><p>There's nothing you could have done to save that calf this morning. I know it sucks, but you can't live with them. I am not trying to sound like ol' Caustic (he really is a good guy everyone), but you gotta cut your loses. And switching your calving season may not be the right decision. The weather this year has been tough on all cattle producers. Don't make a drastic decision to your program because you lost an ET calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ENNOT, post: 342077, member: 3562"] Sorry about your lose, but if you are gonna have them, you are gonna lose them. I was feeling about like you a couple weeks ago when I pulled in and found my favorite 1st calf heifer dead with the calf half way out. There is not a whole lot you can do unless you get up every two hours during the night. I did that in college with the college beef herd and we lost just as many as if we had slept all night. We run around 200 head and the cows are lucky to get checked twice a day. We check the first calvers twice a day since they are sometimes stupid. We have all of our replacement heifers out on pasture and they are lucky to get check two to three times a week. We run out on crop residue circles in the winter that are 25 miles from home. At some point you need to cut your costs somehow. You need to make sure you have cattle that can do it on their own. There's nothing you could have done to save that calf this morning. I know it sucks, but you can't live with them. I am not trying to sound like ol' Caustic (he really is a good guy everyone), but you gotta cut your loses. And switching your calving season may not be the right decision. The weather this year has been tough on all cattle producers. Don't make a drastic decision to your program because you lost an ET calf. [/QUOTE]
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