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Steve From Arka

10-06-2006 05:13:21




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Woke up to a chilly 50 degrees here this morning. Off work today, so went down to the barn with my 16 year old daughter to bottle feed twin baby calves. Their mother died a week ago when they were about a week old. Nothing prettier than those two going after those bottles.

I also have to brag on my daughter. A 16 year old getting up between 5:30 and 6:00 and doing farm work and liking it. I guess her mother and I did somthing right along the way.

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Dick L

10-06-2006 14:30:40




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 Re: OT Bottle feeding calves in reply to Steve From Arkansas, 10-06-2006 05:13:21  
If she likes to bottle feed calves get her set up like this and make some money at it. My 18 year old and my 16 year old grand daughters bottle feed these twice a day for 10 weeks and then in another 12 weeks they get in another batch of 400. I do not have a picture of them being bottle feed. They had just finished when I came into the barn with my camera. They have a hose to pump the milk into the bottles that they hang on the pens. One hangs bottles and the other one fills. third party image

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RAW in IA

10-06-2006 05:26:27




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 Re: OT Bottle feeding calves in reply to Steve From Arkansas, 10-06-2006 05:13:21  
I was raised on asmall farm, and dad milked a small herd . We never bottle fed calves. We used a sall pail, and they quickly learned to drink from the pail. Sometimes we had to help them start drinkin from the pail by putting a hand under their nose and let them suck on a finger till they got the idea.



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Michael Soldan

10-06-2006 05:26:09




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 Re: OT Bottle feeding calves in reply to Steve From Arkansas, 10-06-2006 05:13:21  
Steve, your daughter deserves credit for helping out like that. I would get a couple of nipple pails so you can mix your formula(milk replacer) and just hang the pails over the gate where the calves can get at it, they'll soon outgrow the bottles. I have had 4 sick calves in the last month, cost me $62 a calf for the meds, saved them all. Vet thinks the temperature swing from 70's in the day to 30's at night, dampness on the ground did it, bacterial rather than viral..part of the cattle business I guess, good luck with your calves, tell your daughter there is a guy in Ontario she doesn't know who is impressed with her...Mike in Exeter Ontario

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t-raye

10-06-2006 17:22:03




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 Re: OT Bottle feeding calves in reply to Michael Soldan, 10-06-2006 05:26:09  
hey mike this is the 16 yr old girl , so ur immpressed thats cool , well i gotta go talk to u later t-raye



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karl f

10-08-2006 00:47:44




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 Re: OT Bottle feeding calves in reply to t-raye, 10-06-2006 17:22:03  
i'm impressed too. email me.
karl f



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Steve From Arkansas

10-06-2006 05:44:41




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 Re: OT Bottle feeding calves in reply to Michael Soldan, 10-06-2006 05:26:09  
Mike, I'll be sure and let her know. We've had to raise a few this way. I had a pail but need to replace the nipple or buy a new one. We were waiting till they got a little older but I guess they would be able to take the pail now. It does make it a little easier. One af the calves is a heifer and one a bull. The heifer is a lot smaller. My daughter named them Rose and Emery. Thats my wife's mother and father names. I had to laugh at that.

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Harley

10-06-2006 12:43:06




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 Re: OT Bottle feeding calves in reply to Steve From Arkansas, 10-06-2006 05:44:41  
Be careful Steve. Never name your food. BTDT and they will be with you forever. Harley



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