no brainer

[jodywy]

Got a black brokled faced cow that every fall my Wife says sell her when we preg check. The vet always says she bred; but she weans close to a 700 lb. calf: well the problem is those huge coke can sized teats.
Every spring when she calves we have to get her in the barn and in a pen, no rope is needed, but I need to hold the calf on one of those huge teats, I try to get it to suckle more than one…. But then one gets a little smaller and the calf gets everything it needs from it.
Well Mondays -14F I lost one calf that got chilled it had a gentle cow for a momma, and big teats calved this morning. So after a bottle of colostrum it going into a pen next to the cow that lost her calf and tonight I get it suckling her.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Don't you think you will miss playing with those BIG teats every spring? :wink: :lol: :lol:

 

[jodywy]

Don't you think you will miss playing with those BIG teats every spring? :wink: :lol: :lol:

well she couldn't of had it any way, 1/2 cup of colustrum in one front teat,other was hard, one back teat the bottom froze it off lat winter and I probally got some out of the biggest back teat but after a few tries could get it broke open

 

[Anonymous]

Don't you think you will miss playing with those BIG teats every spring? :wink: :lol: :lol:

well she couldn't of had it any way, 1/2 cup of colustrum in one front teat,other was hard, one back teat the bottom froze it off lat winter and I probally got some out of the biggest back teat but after a few tries could get it broke open

You have much more patience than I do- any bag/teat problem cows get marked in the book-- and they aren't around next spring to have to do it again....

 

[Aaron]

Don't you think you will miss playing with those BIG teats every spring? :wink: :lol: :lol:

well she couldn't of had it any way, 1/2 cup of colustrum in one front teat,other was hard, one back teat the bottom froze it off lat winter and I probally got some out of the biggest back teat but after a few tries could get it broke open

You have much more patience than I do- any bag/teat problem cows get marked in the book-- and they aren't around next spring to have to do it again....

Ditto. Only I don't mark them in a book. The pure rage and frustration of milking out once is enough to set in my mind.

 

[jodywy]

well she couldn't of had it any way, 1/2 cup of colustrum in one front teat,other was hard, one back teat the bottom froze it off lat winter and I probally got some out of the biggest back teat but after a few tries could get it broke open

You have much more patience than I do- any bag/teat problem cows get marked in the book-- and they aren't around next spring to have to do it again....

Ditto. Only I don't mark them in a book. The pure rage and frustration of milking out once is enough to set in my mind.

well got a graft calf out of her now she down the road

 

[Soapweed]

If a calf doesn't suck its mother, we mix up powdered colostrum and drench the calf. Usually after it gets the taste of milk, it figures out how to suck the next go around. If it is the cow's fault she gets sold at the earliest opportunity. After many years of low tolerance culling, our herd is fairly trouble-free.

 

[HAY MAKER]

Boy, I would agree on milkin a beef cow especially in cold and mud and big clogged up teats aint much more miserable.
jody best way I found to unclog those ole big teats is a mastitis syringe.
good luck

 

[jodywy]

Boy, I would agree on milkin a beef cow especially in cold and mud and big clogged up teats aint much more miserable.
jody best way I found to unclog those ole big teats is a mastitis syringe.
good luck

I fed the calf powderd colostrum, then gave it to a momma that lost her calf. I know alot of ranchers that keep a few old cows that are in good flesh and yes good udder just to have a calf to graft onto a hiefer or young cow that loses a calf(breach, accident )
I kept another cow we had been doctoring her but the infection was having quarters of her udder fall off. She had a calf in her , but she stank to high heaven and you wouldn't have gotten anything out of her at that time. Will have a graft calf or bottle baby when she calves, she healed up and will still make few dollars at the ring

 

[Faster horses]

We had the most wonderful elderly neighbor in SW Montana and he thought the world of his cows. He had milked them bad bagged old girls so many times, it got to where he could walk up to them in the pasture, pet them a bit, put his head in
their flank and milk or suckle the calf in the pasture. He was so proud of them
because he never had to take them to the corral! :wink: :lol: :lol: