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batchaps4me said:
I'm just curious about something. What percentage of births yearly typically end with loss of calf?
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That's a tough one to answer. different ways of running programs, different breeds, different husbandry practices. Some years just plain bad luck. Some years everything goes right. Average I'd say 3% to 5%, maybe. You want 0 dead but things happen. Yesterday evening I pulled one. The calf had a front leg back. I had to push him back in to find and get the other leg forward. If I hadn't the cow probably wouldn't have had him, or by the time she did it would have been to long and he would have been dead.
 
Copejunkie said:
That's a tough one to answer. different ways of running programs, different breeds, different husbandry practices. Some years just plain bad luck. Some years everything goes right. Average I'd say 3% to 5%, maybe. You want 0 dead but things happen. Yesterday evening I pulled one. The calf had a front leg back. I had to push him back in to find and get the other leg forward. If I hadn't the cow probably wouldn't have had him, or by the time she did it would have been to long and he would have been dead.
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The cow and calf you showed the other day looked like registered black angus.
 
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