Had a fr heifer calf born this morning in cubicle shed. Cow due 15th January. I served a few in early April as I was penalised for not supplying enough milk last January. A sexed mo salah calf. All good. Best of luck for calving 2022
Never thought she might have another. She was cleaned when I found her calved and she wasn't that big in the belly all along.
Do you mean to bond to the calf?
Yes. I wouldn’t even bother skinning a calf. I’d just get the foster calf to drink the cow twice a day then leave them off after 3 or 4 days
It’s unlikely but with the calf being small and her calving early you never know.
I don't follow. My calf is alive.
There was a post earlier someone had a dead calf, skinned it and put it on another calf
Cow wouldn't let calf suck atal even in crush just kicking all the time.skinning worked great feeding within 5 minutes.first time doing it
Ok. Sometimes it has to be done I suppose
What would have caused the cow to put all her feeding into calf instead of herself.got thin last couple months an showed with size of calf she had.she couldn't calve it.hex second calver
Genetics usually.
Would that her offspring a good chance of doing the same.i kept her heifer from last year for a replacement
Have you any idea of the cows ICBF figures? I had a cow here once that always always had a huge calf. From her breeding I could see all hard calving bulls in her pedigree on icbf webpage.
Must look into that.she calved her first last year no problem atal
Had a cow with milk fever there now. Rarely get it in a spring calver, she calved this evening but she took on with a calf that was born at dinner time and went mental when I took the calf away
Si heifer calved. 4 quarters all blood in milk. Does that do harm to calf? Gave calf powder colostrum for 24 hours (2feeds) and milked out heifer 3 times and she is coming good now.
Had this last year with a couple of our cows, as far as I remember it’s normal for a bit of blood to be in the milk (capillaries burst in the bag I think is what the vet said to us) , usually goes after the first couple of days the calf is drinking👍
I would have encouraged the calf to drink from the heifer within an hour of birth. I don't think powder colostrum has equivalent antibodies, ( open to correction).
Lovely heifer, maybe i’m wrong but i’d let the calf suck away and wouldn’t milk her out.
Progressive genonmics LM2388 bull calf born on Wednesday. Had to jack him out. Mother is a SHX
Nice calf John, I had 1 of these in 2020, sold her last year at 13 months 405 kgs €1,140, I had a a few of them last year and very happy with them, very quite cattle. I will have a more of them this year hopefully. I found them small at calving but develop quickly in nice shapely cattle. The most of mine would have been out of Zag heifers / cows
I have a heifer calf on the ground too out of that bull. They are bigger in size than Zag calves when born
In the wars again with two perfectly normal calves but won’t suck their cows. Left one lad 4 days without feeding but couldn’t stick the roaring any more. You’d think he’d be dead. Watched them both constantly and never went near the cow.
Feeding them once a day on a bottle. Spent an hour trying to get them sucking cow this evening but was just vexing myself.
Give them a couple of ml of multimin
Done that. They’re sucking like mad just not the cow.
Did you milk out the cows a bit? The teats might still have the plugs in them. A bit of honey on the teats maybe ....
I seem to get these ones every few years. It’s probably about 7-8 years since the last ones but had them two years running that time. The first cow that time wasn’t too bad as at least the calf was sucking bottle but the one the following year wouldn’t so I was tubing/bottling him. Both took full month exactly before they started sucking cow.
tried honey , mustard on cows neck, starving calf , taking away calf, nothing worked so not bothering my hole this time. Have bag of bloom so only milking the cows every second evening and mix bloom the other evening as it quickens the job a bit.
watching them on the phone constantly but no action
And the 2022 show is on the road - kicking off with twins born on the slats.
All good I hope
Very small lively lmx heifers. Will have to keep an eye on her as she seems to be only paying attention one of them.
I have before. Never too much bother. This lapon heifer was off a 1st time calver. Calved at 30 months I say. Have calved a few at 24 but not to Ch, won't do 24month calving again as j don't feed them.to get big enough at that age.
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