That pretty much brings me up to the start of my bottle calf thread. She went on the wheat later and as far as I know she went to work for the restaurant industry. She did great too! She stayed here until she was a good ruminating ruminator. Made a deal for half a beef in trade for raising her. I did buy one to raise on the bottle, but had a heifer lose a calf in birth. She went back to her home with instructions that she NEEDED grain daily for at least 2 months still. My first bottle calf was a friend/neighbors that for whatever reason they didnt wanna fool with. Bottle Calves are Fun but a Lot of work!! I have fed 90% my calves on my jersey milk the rest on Milk Replacer.

The other one due to he choked on milk, wouldn't cough and he was suffering and about dead from having milk in his lungs. I had to put 2 of these brown Swiss calves down, 1 due to neurological issues the guy gave him to me. Brown Swiss calves are Huge!.! The small ones are 80 at 4 days old, the big ones are over a 100 at 4 days old. I have a contract with a Brown Swiss Dairy to buy All of their Bull Bottle Calves. I currently have 4 on the bottle 2 on my nurse cow. Then sometime in there I had to put a calf down that had been stepped on at birth, but I don't really count him as me losing, him because it was the only thing to do for him per vets advice. Then (this year) I lost 2 $50 beef auction calves that looked like death walking, they were skinny and looked Horrible. 2 year's ago I lost my first bottle calf, I only bought him so the guys kids wouldn't have to watch him die.

I was hooked, so I raised a jersey heifer and for the next few years I raised 6 to 15 bottle calves a year. at 6 months old he weighed 400 and brought $634. He was all Holstien and he was so sick a friend of mine thought he would be dead the next morning, he wouldn't take a bottle so I dumped 2 well beat raw eggs down him and the next morning his poop looked better and he sucked down 3/4 of a bottle, he didn't get sick again. I sold my horse in 2014 for $400, bought my First bottle calf for $350. My bottle calf story starts with a horse.

Raising a bull calf