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Colostrum Supplement or Not?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1336144" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Yep. I'd supplement. Maximum colostral antibodies are 'set' by 5 weeks pre-partum. She's not gonna make more... and if those other calves sucked 'em off, the new baby's gonna get slighted. I'd definitely give a dose of a high-quality colostrum REPLACER (not just a supplement) . </p><p></p><p>Had a deal here sorta like Till-Hill's: 1st-timer calved, wanted nothing to do with her calf; pulled 'em in to the barnlot, took a day or two of chuting her twice a day for her to accept her calf - then, after that, she'd let anything in the barnlot, and later, in the pasture, nurse here. Calved again the next year... would have nothing to do with her own calf... which I grafted onto a heifer who lost hers... in the meantime, the 3-yr old has now adopted another cow's calf... with 'two mamas', he topped the calf crop that year! But... I didn't give her a third chance... she took a ride to town as a bred cow... probably made somebody else angry about 2 months ago when she calved out and refused her own calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1336144, member: 12607"] Yep. I'd supplement. Maximum colostral antibodies are 'set' by 5 weeks pre-partum. She's not gonna make more... and if those other calves sucked 'em off, the new baby's gonna get slighted. I'd definitely give a dose of a high-quality colostrum REPLACER (not just a supplement) . Had a deal here sorta like Till-Hill's: 1st-timer calved, wanted nothing to do with her calf; pulled 'em in to the barnlot, took a day or two of chuting her twice a day for her to accept her calf - then, after that, she'd let anything in the barnlot, and later, in the pasture, nurse here. Calved again the next year... would have nothing to do with her own calf... which I grafted onto a heifer who lost hers... in the meantime, the 3-yr old has now adopted another cow's calf... with 'two mamas', he topped the calf crop that year! But... I didn't give her a third chance... she took a ride to town as a bred cow... probably made somebody else angry about 2 months ago when she calved out and refused her own calf. [/QUOTE]
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