per
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The sugar things makes sense. It would stem back to the fertility on the soil that the feed was grown on. Another reason to consider cutting your hay at the time of day when the sugar content is highest in the plant.
per said:Scottish accent :? Not many have time to deal with these incidents anyway. Walk away is a good strategy. As I was trying to figure out if that was an accent, I noticed that your avatar reads "Northern Nebraska Sandhills". Got me to wondering, how much of Nebraska is Sandhills? Are the corn growing areas sandy or loamy or clay? How plentiful is the ground water?
per said:The sugar things makes sense. It would stem back to the fertility on the soil that the feed was grown on. Another reason to consider cutting your hay at the time of day when the sugar content is highest in the plant.
gcreekrch said:per said:The sugar things makes sense. It would stem back to the fertility on the soil that the feed was grown on. Another reason to consider cutting your hay at the time of day when the sugar content is highest in the plant.
The way it was explained to us was that this condition is comparable to a diebetic person getting irritable because of low blood sugar. We tried this cure on a whim by drenching the cow with 2 litres of water and four cups of brown sugar. In both cases the calf roller, pawer, killer cows were transformed into good mommas within 20 minutes.
I have no idea if the NEXT owner had any problems. :wink:
Northern Rancher said:One thing we do when we tag is tie the calf with a pigging string-the cows usually will come up and check them out while were making up a tag-the calf most times gets done kicking and you can get them tagged-the odd one has gotten whipped with the free end of the string. If we get a cow that's too breachy to get her calf tagged you know where she goes. I've never had one savage a calf but years ago I had an old red baldie that would stand over it and beller for a day or so.
Au contraire, Northern Rancher it is very much the same. The problem I described is not genetic, is no indication that a heifer will have a poor temperament, is not something that tends to happen a second time and only affects the animal for a few hours (or minutes) after calving. So my question remains - would you shoot or ship a cow if it needed to be treated for milk fever? If not there is even less need to shoot or ship a cow with the condition I described.I don't think a case of milk fever is quite the same as this weird condition you are talking about.
Ah, we're back to issuing challenges again. I'll leave you to argue this one with yourself because it's obvious you are talking out of a hole in your hat. Reading your posts it's obvious you had never heard of, or encountered, this condition 24 hours ago and now you are an authority on whether "it" has a genetic component or not.How can you prove it's not genetic-you can't can you....