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Big un

04-14-2007 13:33:55




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Well, the last of the bottle calves just got sold today.Boy a feller sure can get attached to them .Time for them to go though.I know its off the subject,so just humor me.

Big un




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37 chief

04-14-2007 19:29:20




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 Re: Bottle calves in reply to Big un, 04-14-2007 13:33:55  
My brother would bring the new born calf's home that were abandon, or the cow died. My wife and daughters would bottle feed them, and they sure got attached to the little critters. We had a donkey turn on the her baby as soon as she saw it. You think the baby calf's are cute when they are little, wait until you see a baby donkey. Stan



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JLW

04-14-2007 19:24:09




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 Re: Bottle calves in reply to Big un, 04-14-2007 13:33:55  
The first calf that I bottle-fed is my 3 year old bull. He can be a major pain in the butt when he wants attention. The other 2 calves that I have bottle-fed were heifers. I traded one for another heifer, and the other one is due to calf in the fall.



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4010guy

04-14-2007 14:05:35




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 Re: Bottle calves in reply to Big un, 04-14-2007 13:33:55  
OK ,, I have a small herd out here and very seldom do we have a bottle calf but when i do the price of milk replacer just eats my profit up,,But the little fellers need to be fed and taken care of so we do. So how DO you do it or do you get a break on replacer in bulk or something?



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Don-wi

04-14-2007 14:56:58




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 Re: Bottle calves in reply to 4010guy, 04-14-2007 14:05:35  
We only have a 50 head diary farm but the price of replacer was killing us too, espescially when we'd burn through a bag every week. We quit getting relpacer and use real milk now from one or 2 cows and they do much better on it. Doesn't cost us nearly as much either since the price of milk is so low...

Got a bunch of bullcalves right now we need to get rid of. Gonna bring them to a guy we trade with for hay sometime this week maybe.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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barnrat

04-14-2007 16:58:48




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 Re: Bottle calves in reply to Don-wi, 04-14-2007 14:56:58  
We went and bought a milk pasturizer, with whey protein being worth so much we couldn't afford $60 a bag for milk replacer on our 50 head dairy herd. My wife just draws milk off of the receiver jar while shes milking she can make up to 6 gallons by the time shes done milking.



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Don-Wi

04-14-2007 18:17:27




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 Re: Bottle calves in reply to barnrat, 04-14-2007 16:58:48  
$60!! I think the most we ever paid was about $35 for a 50 lb bag, maybe $40. It's gotta be almost 10 years since we've sued milk replacer though so I have no idea what the stuff runs now-a-days. Seems to be much more economic to just use the milk a guy already has vs. paying so much for a bag... Of course for the guy that only raises beef and doesn't have any cows to get some milk from I guess they don't have any choice.

When we bring 1 or 2 bull calves out to the guy we trade with we'll send along 1 gal. per calf, then after that he's on his own he's gotta use milk replacer on 'em. I noticed quite differenct too in the ones we kept for the freezer and the ones he has too, the ones we gave him are about 1/2 the size it seems compared to a calf the same age in our own barn...

Donovan from Wisconsin

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Bigun

04-14-2007 14:44:16




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 Re: Bottle calves in reply to 4010guy, 04-14-2007 14:05:35  
Hey 4010guy.Yeah I buy it in bulk and get a pretty good price.Otherwise I couldn't raise any calves.We have cut back the last few years on the number we raise cause the milk has gone up even buying bulk.

Bigun



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4010guy

04-14-2007 16:58:54




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 Re: Bottle calves in reply to Bigun, 04-14-2007 14:44:16  
Hi bigun & Don-wi,,,Ya i could See ware one big ol milk cow could feed quite a few calves if ya spaced her out all rite,,,My pa had a 24 cow dairy in the late 40s & 50s And back then he said if he delivered them he could maybe get 5 bucks appice for them and i hate to say this but there was another dairy that knocked all his bull calves in the head just to get rid of them.:o(,,,AND THEN! there was another ol boy across the line just north of me (Canada) that used to make a trip to minnesota with an ol Chevy car from time to time with the back seats removed and bring them back here to feed them out,,,A guy i know said he seen him coming across the border and those stupid calves had been trying to suck on the ol boy for the last 500 miles and you can well imagine what he must of looked like...They said his ears were just a hangen..LOL :o) :o)

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kurt:ky

04-14-2007 13:47:10




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 Re: Bottle calves in reply to Big un, 04-14-2007 13:33:55  
The last bottle fed calve I had is in my freezer thank goodness.



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Big un

04-14-2007 13:52:13




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 Re: Bottle calves in reply to kurt:ky, 04-14-2007 13:47:10  
That would go over like a fart in a diving helmet around here.These girls just will let me sell them much less eat them.We did that a lot when I was growing up,but not now.Heck nooooo oo!

Bigun



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rrlund

04-14-2007 13:40:20




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 Re: Bottle calves in reply to Big un, 04-14-2007 13:33:55  
I know what you mean about being attached. We had 2 angus heifer calves that were abandoned by their mothers four years ago. My wife bottle raised them,then insisted that we keep them and breed them. I'd always heard that it wasn't a good idea,that they wouldn't have much maternal instinct. Well,I kept them. Only one bred,was a pretty good mama,sold the other when mother wasn't home. She doesn't know the difference anymore anyway.

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