Re: Will a Calf born now make it?
[Re: 330-Trapper]
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01/09/22 12:39 PM
01/09/22 12:39 PM
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bob56
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As long as the heifer claims the calf you should be OK, it's when they don't claim it that the fun begins. I have hauled calves to basement dip sink, full of hot water to get them warmed up. Then toweled off and into the calf box to get completely dry. I'll then pen the heifer before putting the calf in the pen and rub some calf claim into the calf's coat. I leave them together till I see the calf nurse on it's own before turning out. If I have to I have used a head gate and will put the calf on the teat. I have 12 heifers that start Feb 1 and hope we don't have any blizzards/freezing rain.
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Will a Calf born now make it?
[Re: 330-Trapper]
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01/09/22 02:38 PM
01/09/22 02:38 PM
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Leftlane
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I don't trust heifers because some of them are ate up with stupid. If there is even one wet nasty hole full of open water and mud a heifers chances of calving in it go up astronomically. Try to trap her in a loading shed or at least a place that is dry and then watch her like a hawk I say.
If you don't have OB chains they pay for themselves the first time you use them. Had I known about this sooner I would have had you peen her off and limit her protien the last trisemester but I have seen the bulls you use and hopefully her calf isn't too big
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Will a Calf born now make it?
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01/09/22 03:31 PM
01/09/22 03:31 PM
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Used to have them horn 365 days a week. Don’t see why not. But they were milking cows not beef
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Re: Will a Calf born now make it?
[Re: KeithC]
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01/09/22 04:07 PM
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There's a good chance the calf will make it, especially if you get them in a barn.
I had a Longhorn cow named Praline, that I bred to an Angus bull named Shrek. Praline had her first calf, Blizzard, during a 28 inch snowfall, when the high was in the single digits. I kept Praline back, while my friend James carried the calf to the old milking parlor. Praline followed us a few hundred yards to the barn and turned her head sideways to enter the door. Blizzard did fine and is still around. Praline died last year. There's probably over 60 head that are out of them and their descendants now.
My friend, James, didn't like longhorns at the time. He lost 5 Angus calves in 2 years. After seeing how well Praline and Blizzard did with their calves, almost all of James's cattle have Praline's Longhorn genetics now. When any of the cows calve, all the cattle with Longhorn genetics stay around the delivering mother. None of the pure Angus do. None of the cows with Longhorn genetics, out of Praline, have lost a calf.
Keith If those longhorns are anything like their pineywood or cracker cousins they're the best possible mama's. Some of old woods cattle dad had were downright dangerous when it came to taking care of younguns.
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Re: Will a Calf born now make it?
[Re: Leftlane]
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01/09/22 04:11 PM
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I have a 40 x 30 bull pen I plan on putting her in about 1/3 of it but I cannot get it ready until Tuesday. I'll put a round bale in there and peel off a bunch for a dry bed section. Plan on ice water shield tar paper stapled to the BPen walls. Pulling straps ready.
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