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I would call that a lucky day!
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Sam, do you, and your Dad do all your vet work?
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"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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I would call that a lucky day! It certainly could have turned out a lot worse.
Patriotism (and religion) is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Jesus: "Take heed that no man deceive you."
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Campfire 'Bwana
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In the last couple weeks we've calved out around 35 heifers and I've pulled 4 or 5. One calf had to be close to 100lbs, the rest I bet were 70-90lbs. And the thirty I didn't have to pull went 50-70lbs.
Knock on wood so far so good, great mothers.
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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In the last couple weeks we've calved out around 35 heifers and I've pulled 4 or 5. One calf had to be close to 100lbs, the rest I bet were 70-90lbs. And the thirty I didn't have to pull went 50-70lbs.
Knock on wood so far so good, great mothers. Sam the guy in charge of buying bulls has done a great job. The heifers are turning out 70-75 pounders like clockwork, barring twins. Out of about 70 heifers only one needed help this year. Edit to add that’s about half, who knows on the remainder. Happy to let you know on those calves as soon as I’m told. Osky
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A woman's heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth and I can find no sign on it.
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Never had triplets.
Not bad having a few extra calves around.
Usually use a head catch and tie a leg back.
Sometimes give her a shot of mother up when you let her out.
Never tried grafting an extra calf on something.
I am MAGA.
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Never seen triplets but I must hold the record for twins. Twins usually don't work out well. Often times the cow will only love one. They are usually just a little premature and don't follow the cow as well as a full term and if a cow has one with her she doesn't look for the other one. Sometimes the first one is breeched and has to be pulled. I pulled a breeched calf one time not realizing there was another one coming. Went back later and she had two, but after about a month she would only allow the bull calf to nurse. Multiple births are not wanted at our place. This. I’d be interested in a good way to graft castaways to another cow? Never seems to work. Bottle calves and soon off to the ring. Never seen triplets, tho I’m sure some are born on the range and not seen. The big ranch has had fewer twins this year than any other, I’d have thought with last summer being super green and an incredibly mild winter twins would be uncountable. Just the opposite. Osky I've had quite a bit of luck buying nurse cows, usually Jerseys. They'll let anything suck. I tend to keep them up in the corrals and not turned with the other pairs to monitor them. ( ETA- this is when I was buying cheap broken mouth, bred cows, calve sell calves, reclass the cows- whether I cut their heads off or rebred and sent them back throught the sale. You never know what they were bred when bought so leppies were common.Sale barn cows...) If we happened to have a cow that lost a calf and wanted to be a mom, we'd rope her, hobble her back legs and stick them in a pen together.
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Rancher I worked with in UT, used milk goats. Said they did a great job raising bum calves and lambs. When the calves got tall enough he had to put the goat on a stool so the calves could reach. IIRC he said each goat would raise 2 calves or 5 lambs.
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I've calved 1000's of cows out and witnessed some pretty wild things but never a triple. My neighbor did though and I got one of them as a donor. Being purebred, we had a few hydro-heads. Had one with an extra leg and 2 noses. I'm out of the calving deal due to an accident, just feed them now.
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Cheap hairspray, the more fragrant the better. Spray it on the cows face heavy and on the calf. Has worked a couple of times. Huh, I thought Aqua-Net was only really good for powering a potato gun. Learn something new every day I guess.
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