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Show COUNTY AGENT'S . NOTES This Is the critical season for livestock breeding herds says Kay R. Bendlxsen, Garfield County Agent. Death losses at calving time Among young and weak heifers may be high and costly, nange cattle which have not had access 10 green food for several months may suffer from shortages of es sential nutrients. Thin heirers ana calves may have already robbed their own body tissues of vital elements to obtain life sustaining proteins and minerals until they tare too weak to undergo the calving ordeal. Calves may come dead or may live only a day or so after birth If a severe shortage of vitamin "A" exists In the1 cow's food. Many heifers die at calvlngttlme not because the calves are too large but because the helfera are too feeble and weak and don't have enough strength and energy to live through It. Losses can be reduced and calf crop weight Increased by feeding (1) steamed bone meal for phosphorous, so essential to life, (2) protein rich aupplements to build strength and health and (3) two or three pounds of well-cured bright hay dally to provide Caroline which supplies vitamin A. without which calves cannot live. |