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I had mixed results. I used it on two calves for about 45 days. It worked great on a calf that started out with good hair but the other calf which had normal hair it never seemed to help much. I did like how it didn't weigh down the hair.

I purchased a bred cookie monster x maine heifer that clicks really well with I-80. She hasn't had a bad calf yet.

Fluid Film. Should be gone in a couple of days.

I was thinking about selling some embryo's but retaining 100% of the resulting calves. Anybody interested? (thumbsup)

If your trying to sell show calves then your calves need to be show ready. Calves will need to be fat, hairy, and clipped. They need to look the part. Try to find a local club calf sale to consign them to. Be hard on your opinion of your calves. Barn blindness is a terrible thing, only work with...

I am running short on hay this year and thought about baling up some corn fodder. My question is, how well will they eat it? My thought is to alternate hay and corn fodder bales and add a protein tub.

Try backing your trailer up to the gates and feed the corn out of the trailer. Slowly feed the corn deeper in the trailer until they get comfortable with climbing inside and slam the gate like you did with the corral panels. Corn is like crack to cows,they will get nosey and jump inside to get...

Not sure what happened but when I went to check on her she was drinking water out of the trough. I let the cow in and calf went to town sucking all over the cow. I had to help it find the teet but she is one happy little calf now.

Nothing, she could careless. She was actually standing up on her own a few times yesterday. Tubed her again this morning and acted like she was on deaths door step. Hardly put up a fight. I turned the cow out so we will see if she wants to eat when I get back home from work. Going to try some...

I saw this heifer at the expo and I must say see looked great. Nice buy.

Gave the calf a shot of vitamin e and dex. Cow got a shot of oxy to drop her milk. I hand milked her out some and put the calf up to the teet and it could careless. Still no interest in sucking. A slight pressure when it sucks on your finger.

I tried the bottle again last night with little luck, she only chewed on the nipple. Went ahead and tubed it with clostrum. Calf was down two more pounds this morning. Calf was still a hand full to get a good hold on to tube. Seems as if it wasn't nursing it would be on its last leg by now.

I had a calf born sometime saturday night, I found it sunday morning and penned cow and calf up after finding them. Calf weight was 98lbs. I have not seen the calf nurse nor does it look like the bag has gone down any. Calf seems fine when I get it up but everytime I check on them it is laying...

I have had some that look like that. Mine have all grown out of it. Give it a few weeks and it should be normal.

http://www.mercerlandmark.com/feed_showfeeds.php  I tried this last year with decent results.