Posted by wisbaker on June 05, 2012 at 01:04:02 from (207.118.171.230):
In Reply to: OT: 2 calf issues posted by tjdub on June 04, 2012 at 22:16:24:
I worked on a dairy in western Oklahoma about 30 years ago, we ran heifers on range land and most of them were covered with our angus cross range bull. IIRC any angus calf was mentally retarded they just didn't get the bucket thing and were too dumb to suckle, just fought them and eventually they got with the program, of course in the dairy environment they had other calves so there was social pressure to eat.I suppose the question is how much time are you willing to spend raising calves? The down side is if you bring the two problem children in to bucket raise that's a lot of time for only two calves at the dairy we'd usually have 5-10 in the hutches at a time and count on 30- 40 minutes a feeding at the calf pen.
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