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 Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:30 am
So, I just love bottle raising my goats, and hand raising my chickens. They are so much fun to watch grow up and they are always so much sweeter and easier to work with when they are raised like that. 3nodding
Have you ever hand/bottle raised your livestock? Was it enjoyable? Will you ever do it again? What animals have you raised?
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:32 pm
I bottle-fed an oprhaned calf once. It was always a sweet thing, but was bothersome when it was an adult. It was still friendly, but now huge and friendly. So she ended up a bit of a danger to people who didn't already know about her.
My aunt bottle raised a Holstein cross once, and now we've dubbed it the stupidest cow in the field, ol' number 18. She's the same -- overly friendly -- but also has picked up a tendency of overeating, and then laying down and being unable to get up again. She had a calf this year and last year, and both times she's rejected her calf. (Last year the calf wandered around and sucked off all the other heifers -- this year's calf is a bit early, so she got some bottle feeding, but a heifer that just lost her calf is taking a shining to 18's calf -- we're hoping she adopts.)
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:14 am
I bottle raised almost all of my goats. We usually bottle raised all of our feeders as well. Of course our feeders were calves purchased at auction or from other farms in the area so we didn't have the option of having mom raise them. It did make it a lot easier to break them to lead (both calves and goats) and all of the goats I bottle raised were much easier to handle as adults then the ones I left with their dams.
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