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Would you eat this dead calf?
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1389619" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>To be on the safe side, I would say dogs. I don't like to waste things, but since he was 5 days old, I would be cautious about eating him. We did butcher a calf that was born and died within 24 hours and the little bit of meat was like white veal. But he had a deformed leg and I think his lungs were also compromised. One thing I would do; get the cow up in a chute and milk her and see if she has decent milk in her udder. If not then yes he probably died from starvation and the cold. Had an angus cow that we bought. Had a calf, saw it with it's head up under her "sucking" and about a week later it was dead. Chalked it up to "just one of those things". Next year she had a calf, at a different pasture, saw it sucking, and figured it would be good. 3 days later the older lady, who owned the small farm that we rented from, called and said the calf looked weak. So I go up, get them in the catch pen, and the calf is weak. We got the cow in a catch and she had 3 dead quarters and some crappy junk in the fourth. NICE looking udder. So needless to say, the calf went on a bottle til one of the nurse cows calved, the cow went to town.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1389619, member: 25884"] To be on the safe side, I would say dogs. I don't like to waste things, but since he was 5 days old, I would be cautious about eating him. We did butcher a calf that was born and died within 24 hours and the little bit of meat was like white veal. But he had a deformed leg and I think his lungs were also compromised. One thing I would do; get the cow up in a chute and milk her and see if she has decent milk in her udder. If not then yes he probably died from starvation and the cold. Had an angus cow that we bought. Had a calf, saw it with it's head up under her "sucking" and about a week later it was dead. Chalked it up to "just one of those things". Next year she had a calf, at a different pasture, saw it sucking, and figured it would be good. 3 days later the older lady, who owned the small farm that we rented from, called and said the calf looked weak. So I go up, get them in the catch pen, and the calf is weak. We got the cow in a catch and she had 3 dead quarters and some crappy junk in the fourth. NICE looking udder. So needless to say, the calf went on a bottle til one of the nurse cows calved, the cow went to town. [/QUOTE]
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