Mary Graden LLL Idaho wrote:

> We spent the weekend at my in laws farm in the mountains. We were sitting
> around the kitchen table chatting Saturday evening and the phone rang.
> Grandma answered and talked for a few minutes and then called out to
> Grandpa "How long can a calf go with out suckling?" Grandpa got on the
> phone and talked for a few minutes and we heard him say "That calf will
> be alot better off if you can just get the colstrum into him"  My husband
> rolled his eyes and said  "This sounds just like home."  We quickly
> realized things were a little different when we heard Grandpa say  "Can
> You hobble her and get her up against the wall?"

My husband, a zoologist and recreational rancher (whose big brother is a
mammologist in Alaska) continues to comment in every reference he reads on
calving that if the calves don't receive colostrum they will die!  Yet,
even in the vet catalogs there is advertising for bovine milk replacement!
Even veterinary medicine hasn't escaped the wrath of formula advertising! :
)

Maurenne Griese, RNC, BSN, CCE, CBE
Birth and Breastfeeding Resources  http://www.childbirth.org/bbfr
Manhattan, KS  USA
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