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<blockquote data-quote="darcelina4" data-source="post: 1674968" data-attributes="member: 27059"><p>I had a heifer Thursday standing there doing nothing at 5:30. I went to grocery shop and got back at 7:30 to find a dry dead calf that I am sure was stillborn. It looked like she pushed it out, cleaned it, ate the placenta, and went to eating hay. The calf was 3 weeks early. Only weighed 25 pounds. The heifer is a small framed jersey bred to a lbw red Angus. I was expecting a small calf but not that small and not for 3 weeks. Her udder was pretty under developed compared to what we were expecting. She had been horrid to milk despite being a show heifer, very halter broke and gentle. She is a kicking b. I now have her in my backyard with a big jersey that is nursing 4 calves that are 6 weeks. I am trying to move one of those calves over to this heifer. I've had bed luck with that red Angus bull's bull calves. I have 4 great heifers from him. We had a stillborn in December from a red amgus show heifer too. It was born on time but 43 pounds from a 1200 pound 2 year old heifer. Then during out extreme weather event in Feb a simangus had a calf in the snowstorm that we found at maybe an hour old. We took him in the house. We thought he would do ok but he died 3 nights later in the house getting treatment. We have only one live bull calf out of 4. He is out of a red poll heifer and he has been good from the get go. I don't get the stillborms???</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darcelina4, post: 1674968, member: 27059"] I had a heifer Thursday standing there doing nothing at 5:30. I went to grocery shop and got back at 7:30 to find a dry dead calf that I am sure was stillborn. It looked like she pushed it out, cleaned it, ate the placenta, and went to eating hay. The calf was 3 weeks early. Only weighed 25 pounds. The heifer is a small framed jersey bred to a lbw red Angus. I was expecting a small calf but not that small and not for 3 weeks. Her udder was pretty under developed compared to what we were expecting. She had been horrid to milk despite being a show heifer, very halter broke and gentle. She is a kicking b. I now have her in my backyard with a big jersey that is nursing 4 calves that are 6 weeks. I am trying to move one of those calves over to this heifer. I've had bed luck with that red Angus bull's bull calves. I have 4 great heifers from him. We had a stillborn in December from a red amgus show heifer too. It was born on time but 43 pounds from a 1200 pound 2 year old heifer. Then during out extreme weather event in Feb a simangus had a calf in the snowstorm that we found at maybe an hour old. We took him in the house. We thought he would do ok but he died 3 nights later in the house getting treatment. We have only one live bull calf out of 4. He is out of a red poll heifer and he has been good from the get go. I don't get the stillborms??? [/QUOTE]
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