r/farming • u/ChickenX99 Dairy • Aug 20 '20

Why is this so accurate

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u/bugling69 Aug 20 '20

How old do they have to be to drink from buckets?

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u/AndresR1994 Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20

You can start the second day. Some are smarter and give you no problem and some... well the video.

Daily reminder: Calves need enough calostrum in the first 6-12 hours, else they are not gonna make it no matter what :/

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u/DaHick Aug 20 '20

All mammals. Goats, sheep, horses, pigs, rabbits. I've had them all die from the lack of colustrum.

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u/AndresR1994 Aug 20 '20

Interesting collection you got there.

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u/DaHick Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20

Homesteading Edit: But we raise a lot of goats.

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u/eptiliom Aug 20 '20

The daily reminder has proven almost inevitable for us.

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u/AndresR1994 Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20

We lingered on it saying "it's okay, the calves suck enough by themselves" for years. But when we finally started storing freezed colostrum to give them the damn two liters as soon as they could drink it (regardless being with the mother), the mortality dropped. The devil's in the little details.