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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1545155" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I NEVER regularly fed a medicated feed or milk replacer even when it did not need the VFD . To me, you feed good nutritional feed and/or milk replacer or real milk. (35 years ago it was hard to get NON-medicated things as the universities/land grant colleges were touting the "wonders" of having medication in feed for healthier animals and more weight gain, etc.) Then, IF the animal gets sick, they respond quicker and faster to the treatment because they have not had a "theraputic" amount of anti-biotics in their system. I know that there are many who do not necessarily agree, and medicated milk replacer was the norm forever and ever.... but I didn't use it except when I was having problems with sick calves. And that was always with bought calves that brought the "bugs" with them or were without resistance to the "bugs" I had on my place. Yes, I kept a bag of it but my normal day to day was just plain GOOD, ALL MILK, milk replacer. Some of the problems you could vaccinate for and I do think that a good dose is the best thing for "brought in calves". </p><p>Since I now have a farm that seems to have the same "bugs" as I have, and they do a very good job of making sure the calves get 2-3 feedings of colostrum I haven't had any problems. But, if you are talking raising heifers, you may not be able to be as picky as to where and when you get yours.</p><p></p><p>The way I look at it, you do not give your kids antibiotics to keep them from getting sick. You give them good healthy food and try to keep their immune system operating. If they get sick, then you try a few things but you can give them antibiotics to treat the problem. I follow the same basic philosophy with my cattle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1545155, member: 25884"] I NEVER regularly fed a medicated feed or milk replacer even when it did not need the VFD . To me, you feed good nutritional feed and/or milk replacer or real milk. (35 years ago it was hard to get NON-medicated things as the universities/land grant colleges were touting the "wonders" of having medication in feed for healthier animals and more weight gain, etc.) Then, IF the animal gets sick, they respond quicker and faster to the treatment because they have not had a "theraputic" amount of anti-biotics in their system. I know that there are many who do not necessarily agree, and medicated milk replacer was the norm forever and ever.... but I didn't use it except when I was having problems with sick calves. And that was always with bought calves that brought the "bugs" with them or were without resistance to the "bugs" I had on my place. Yes, I kept a bag of it but my normal day to day was just plain GOOD, ALL MILK, milk replacer. Some of the problems you could vaccinate for and I do think that a good dose is the best thing for "brought in calves". Since I now have a farm that seems to have the same "bugs" as I have, and they do a very good job of making sure the calves get 2-3 feedings of colostrum I haven't had any problems. But, if you are talking raising heifers, you may not be able to be as picky as to where and when you get yours. The way I look at it, you do not give your kids antibiotics to keep them from getting sick. You give them good healthy food and try to keep their immune system operating. If they get sick, then you try a few things but you can give them antibiotics to treat the problem. I follow the same basic philosophy with my cattle. [/QUOTE]
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