Glad to see you little fuzzy helper is there to help and supervise your work. And he adds a bit of extra entertainment! We always when it came to grain went with sweet feed they seemed to take to it better and it added a little extra to their weight .
Organic farm treatment for scours- 1 complete egg, shell an all before feeding milk for 2 feedings or 1/4 cup unflavoured yogurt for 2 feedings. It does work and it's cheaper than scour meds.
I've added eggs to my milk replacer as well. Really helps calves with scours out, especially if you're treating them with antibiotics because it all just does fly out of them.
I had a wild calf like that once, it was 2 days old when it escaped and ran a good quarter mile up the road before I caught him. He then refused to walk back so I carried him, I slept like a baby that night lol
Can you put a little molasses on the grain to get them going? Are you going to castrate the bull calves? I like how caring you are with your heifers and cow’s. I subscribed and follow you on Instagram. I was raised on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania I love cows, horses and dogs.
This is my first time watching you thank you for the videos just wondering why you do bottle babies if your breeding your heifers don't they do the job. Do you have to put them in small pens at the beginning to get them tame and teach them how to bottle feed. Your cat is cracking me up
I like the smaller ones because I can monitor their health much easier. I can see what their manure looks like every day to see which calf is healthy. Also, we have noticed that giving the calves more space than that causes them to waste more bedding. I do like group pens but I need enough calves to make a group. But each pen is about 5x5 or 5x6.
Would love to ask you about new baby calves with scours. I have gotten a few and have tried some many different things but still end up losing a few. What do you do or advise?
New York state price holstein heifers 25 bulls 75 crosses 100 if their solid black this time of yr bottler raises looking toward spring.Cant seem to hardly give away straight holstein heifer.gonna give that scour treatment a try best to you go chiefs
I just came across your videos. I'm thinking about raising a calf. Looks like you put a lot of TLC into what you do. I'm judging that by the way the kittne is acting around you. You are it's world. lol!
That one in the middle looks like it will grow into a good natured cow. Smaller and gentle. High headed heifers are meant for one thing in my opinion...feedlots!
I live not to far from you and I have a jersey heifer I bred to an angus bull. Once she calves, should I get another calf to put on her? I don’t plan on milking her at all.
@Toby Perris yes I did! I got one within a week of the calf being born. She fed the calf just fine. This year she nursed extra 2 calves as well as hers as the same time. We had to hobble her until the calves learned to nurse from behind. Then after that she did the rest!
The mums are back on the farm they came from. Dairy cows have to have a calf each year to stay in milk, commercial dairy farmers sell the calves after a few hours / days / weeks. Feeding the calves by bottle is expensive and time-consuming, so the dairy farmers find it better and more profitable for them to get what money they can.
