Thread: Wagyu calves

Originally Posted by XR500

We did a ceasar on one of our good Hereford girls (she had started prolapsing) Irish vet said on a busy day he'd do 6 of these a day. Thats how valuable their cows are back home. He had just started to sew when he said" oh, there's another one in here"!

But anyway: here's the $$ vet call out, ceasar, consumables, three courses of Anti biotics, visit to sew up her prolapse - $1600. Just managed to break even when we sold her two calves at the March sales. In Feb her prolapse fell out again and I had to shoot her. Zero sum game.

Only had to pull two calves this year. One alive and one dead. Monster of a bloody thing for a poor heifer, and the coloring told us it was a fence jumping bastard that did the damage.

I'll take easy calving, good hooves and medium sized udders over massive weight gain any day

We had the vets here this year for something unrelated and they told us that morning on one farm they had 3 ceasers and a couple calvings. Possibly one of those corporate farms but they said they often do large numbers of ceasers on single farms. We are yet to have anything that bad thankfully. Some of ours are big calves, some are just lazy girls and we had the odd back to front upside down. Only needed one vet assist calving in the last 3 years for a very early slip that was very low. Vet just happened to be there so let him take care of it