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Every day is a new beginning on our family’s dairy farm. We have five to eight calves born almost everyday! In fact, it is one of my favorite things about the farm because it is so rewarding & gratifying to bring new life into the world everyday. It still feels like a small miracle every time it happens.
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The calves are transferred to individual hutches at 2-3 days old. You might think to yourself…Why do you put them in hutches all by themselves? We certainly don’t do it out of convenience for ourselves, we do it for health reasons for the calf.
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Part of the calves life cycle is that they get scours between 7 & 10 days old. When they are isolated they cannot continually spread the disease back and forth between themselves, and it allows them to recover quicker. It also eliminates the possible spread of other sicknesses such as pneumonia and colds.
This part of my job never gets old!
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Aisa - Unfortunattely the video ads don’t show up for me, although the page where they shulod be does. Might be because I’m in Canada.I think the two most revealing quotes on the website are In January 2008, government regulatory agencies declared milk and meat from cloned cows safe for human consumption. and We’re so proud that our milk comes from cloned cows, we say it right on the label. I guess it’s a hoax from a group wary about cloning, who want to (a) make people aware of this deregulation (and possibly generate some outrage), and (b) pressure the government to require such milk be labeled.I think the website could be somewhat effective. I followed a link there knowing from the name that it must be a hoax, looking for a laugh, and I learned about the lack of regulation of cloned-animal products. I wasn’t horrified (I’d probably drink that milk), but I do think such stuff shulod be labelled. Consumers shulod be able to make decisions about what to eat whether those decisions are based on science, superstition, religion, or whatever. Just like, while I’m not a vegetarian, I’m glad that all products containing meat are so labelled. Among other things, it protects the right of vegetarians not to eat meat.
Eric Danzeisen - I agree! I always loved a new born calf! There is just something to the new life cycle of a dairy cow! Every one always seemed like a first!
UsFarmGuy - This was not the post I had intended on doing, but due to computer issues its what I’ve got for now! New Featured Farmer videos coming soon! Thanks for your patience.
Janice - Love the photos!