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Will a heifer milk better the second year?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1620238" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>If it's a starvation diet for the calf, cull the cow, if she milks a little less than average and the calf turns out small, there is hope.. Some of them do start off a little slow. I'd never pull the calf off them, perhaps give them a supplemental bottle, but even that is more work than I want to do for them.. let them steal milk and get good at it!, if you have a cow lose her calf, maybe she'll adopt it.</p><p></p><p>One of my best cows had a below average heifer calf the first year, average the next, and since then has consistently had the biggest calves of the herd</p><p></p><p>Some heifers I find overmilk the first time and fall flat on their face for the 2nd calf, then get in the swing of it for subsequent calves and do well</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1620238, member: 9096"] If it's a starvation diet for the calf, cull the cow, if she milks a little less than average and the calf turns out small, there is hope.. Some of them do start off a little slow. I'd never pull the calf off them, perhaps give them a supplemental bottle, but even that is more work than I want to do for them.. let them steal milk and get good at it!, if you have a cow lose her calf, maybe she'll adopt it. One of my best cows had a below average heifer calf the first year, average the next, and since then has consistently had the biggest calves of the herd Some heifers I find overmilk the first time and fall flat on their face for the 2nd calf, then get in the swing of it for subsequent calves and do well [/QUOTE]
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