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What can you do for an older beef cow not producing enough milk for calf?
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∙ 13y ago
Cull them, and send them with a one-way ticket to the slaughterhouse. A few producers who get attached to some of their old cows may let them spend the rest of their days on the ranch in a nice green pasture until they pass on.
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoYou will have to bottle feed the calf, and feed the cow high nutritional feed to get her milk production back up. She may be at the point where she's too old to be producing milk any more, and should be on your short-list to cull her from the herd.
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∙ 12y agoThey are sold to pet food rendering plants
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What is the Average weight of a 1 month old beef calf?
That all depends on what breed that beef calf is. A 1 month old beef calf can weigh anywhere from 80 lbs to over 200 lbs or more.
How do you keep beef cattle from producing milk after calving?
You do not! In a beef herd the mother (dam) is kept for many years to breed the 'beef' offspring that spend 7 to 9 months sucking mothers milk and grazing. This is a suckler herd. A beef breeder. Answer 2: Like the above poster said, you do NOT keep beef cows from producing milk after calving. However, the only reason you should let beef cows (or a beef cow) dry up is if her calf died and there is no other orphan calf she should or can foster. Other than that, beef cows should not be dried up because they have a calf to nurse, which needs their milk in order to grow into a healthy heifer/bull/steer. Beef cows are not like dairy cows where their calves are taken away from them at birth: with beef cows, the calves stay on their mommas until it's time to wean them at 6 to 10 months of age.
What kind of meat does a calf have?
Meat that comes from a calf is called veal or baby beef.
How does a calf help you?
A calf (or baby cow) is the reason that the beef and dairy industries have not crashed. They are the future beef and milk producers, so in short answer they will feed you.
What is a older claf called?
A older calf
Why do rhinos chase away there older calf just because a new calf is born?
This is called "weaning." When a rhino cow gives birth to her new calf, she doesn't want her older calf around to take away the milk that her new calf is in more need of than her older calf, and the older calf may hurt its new sibling out of spite. So the rhino cow has to drive the older calf away and start getting him/her to learn to live on their own.
Which is the category of beef meat?
Beef meat is from cattle. If the meat is from cow, steer, bull, calf, does not matter it is beef.
What is beef farming?
Raise beef cattle for the purpose of turning those animals into meat. "Beef farm" is a very generic term, as it can refer to beef cow-calf operations or feedlot operations (and everything else in between.)
Completee this analogy cow is to beef as calf is to?
Veal
Calve drinks on two 2 teets but not other 2?
What breed is the cow? What size is the calf? How old is the calf? These are all factors that determine whether the calf is full enough drinking from two quarters, or whether the other two quarters may be infected with mastitis and the cow won't let the calf suckle the other two quarters; or the calf's just a newborn and/or is a small calf, and the cow is producing too much milk for such a small calf.
What would happen to a calf if you didn't adjust the beef ration?
Nothing. The calf would just still keep growing.
Can a beef cow be bred back before the calf is weaned?
yes
