mick rems said:
i had a heifer lyk that we showed her as commercial breedstock for wisconsin state fair as we dont have a market heifer class for state. she went to county and took the whole show, i kept as i had her bred but i shipped her this week cus she lost her calf and didnt milk enough as a 3 yr old to support a calf we bought to suck on her
raising both beef and dairy... 99% of the time I wouldn't expect a heifer (or cow) who aborted to have enough milk to support a live calf, not of their's. Now if you are talking about your cow delivering a full term calf, and it dying.. then that's a different story.
I guess what I'm saying is that I personally wouldn't ship a heifer who aborted and didn't have enough milk, for that reason alone-- unless the single reason was she aborted...
