A32-Lmcaster Farming, Saturday, December 8,1984
Keister’s Livestock
Mlddlebnrg, Pa.
Tuesday, December 4
Report is supplied by Auction
CATTLE 307. Compared with last
Tuesday’s market; Choice
slaughter steers 63.25-68.50, Good
57.00-62.75, Standard 52.00-57.00,
Utility 38.00-52.00. Choice
slaughter heifers 61.50-64.10, Good
55.0060.75, Standard 45.00-55.00,
Utility 38.00-45.00. Breaking Utility
& Commercial slaughter cows
32.50-36.75, few to 41.75, Cutter &
Boning Utility 30.0035.75, Canner
& Low Cutter 24.0030.00, Shells
down t;o 20.00. Good slaughter
bullocks 52.0059.25. Yield Grade
No. 112001965 lbs. Slaughter bulls,
44.0047.75, Yield Grade No. 2 800
1200 lbs. 36.0044.00.
FEEDER CATTLE: Steers, 350
750 lbs. 45.0058.00; Heifers 350875
lbs. 30.0047.00; Bulls 350650 lbs.
29.0054.00.
CALVES 182. Vealers Good 50.00
72.50, Standard & Good 90110 lbs.
45.0052.00. Utility 6090 lbs. 35.00
45.00.
FARM CALVES; Holstein bulls
90-125 lbs. 50.00-72.50.
HOGS 641. US No. 1-2 210-235 lbs.
barrows and gilts 52.25-53.25, few
53.75, No. 1-3 190-250 lbs. 51.50-
52.25, No. 2-3 190-270 lbs. 48.00-
51.00. Sows US No. 1-3 300800 lbs.
41.0044.00, few 47.50, No. 2-3 300-
575 lbs. 36.0041.00. Boars 33.50-
37.50.
FEEDER PIGS 437. US No. 1-3
10-25 lbs. feeder pigs 16.00-28.00 per
head, No. 1-3 25-50 lbs. 28.0040.50.
SHEEP 20. Choice 70-125 lbs.
Wool Slaughter Lamb 58.00-115.00,
Good 50-90 lbs. 48.00-58.00.
Slaughter ewes 12.00-22.00.
Peoria Cattle
Thursday, December 6,1984
Report Supplied by USD A
Slaughter steers and heifers
closed the week mostly steady,
instances .50 to 1.00 lower than last
week, most decline on Wednesday.
Cows closed 1.00 to 3.00 lower.
Bulls 1.00 to 3.00 lower on Monday
and not tested Wednesday. Supply
mainly good and choice slaughter
steers and heifers with 17% cows.
Receipts this week about 2000 as
compared with 2714 a week ago ago
and 2956 a year ago.
SLAUGHTER STEERS: Choice
24 1050-1200 lbs. 65.00-67.00, couple
part loads 1205 and 1300 lbs. 67.50;
900-1050 lbs. 64.00-66.00. Mixed
good and choice 2-3 900-1150 lbs.
62.0064.00. Good 2-3 59.0062.00.
Holsteins good and choice 2-3 1075-
1300 lbs. 55.0060.00.
SLAUGHTER HEIFERS:
Choice 24 950-1100 lbs. 64.0066.00;
800-950 lbs. 62.0065.00. Mixed good
and choice 2-3 8001000 lbs. 61.00
64.00. Good 2-3 58.0063.00.
COWS: Breaking utility and
commercikai 2-3 32.00-36.00. Cutter
and Boning Utility 1-2 30.00-33.00.
Canner and Low Cutter 27.00-31.00.
BULLS: YG 1-2 1200-1900 lbs.
37.00-43.00 Monday.
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thing for healthy cows and calves
is this,” Kline emphatically states.
“Have the box stall beded, good,
keep the pen diy.”
He adds that cleanliness is
always very essential in a good
operation.
“Every bucket, bottle and
nipple, is thoroughly rinsed with
very hot water before I ever give it
to another calf.”
Kline does not worry too much
about getting the colostrum to
newborn calves in the first one-half
to one hour following birth. He
does not dip navels either.
“I break a lot of rules,” he says
smiling. But with a total of 850
calves raised by Kline, five were
lost. With this kind of calf loss, no
one argues with Kline’s methods.
“I don’t take a calf away from a
cow until she passes her placenta,”
he adds. “A cow will get nervous
when you take the calf away.”
The calf and the dam are kept in
a box stall until the cow has
cleaned, her udder edema has gone
down, and the calf has received all
the colostrum from its dam.
Kline’s statistic’s show that of
the few calves that he has lost, 99%
were results of complications from
delivery, or birth
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Dairy
New Holland Sales Stables
Wednesday, November 28
Report supplied by auction
Reported receipts >of 60 cows, 72
heifers, and 2 bulls. Market steady.
Load of NY fresh cows, 760.00-
1300.00; springers 900.00-1025.00.
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The dairy herd health has also
benefited from Kline’s care. From
a herd average in the range of
10,000 to 11,000 pounds annually,
the Hartman mostly registered
stock is now pumping out a rolling
herd average of 16,336 pounds
milk, with a 3.7% butterfat test.
His methods of starting the fresh
cows out in the box stalls with their
calves and feeding Ketokurb, a
product from F.M. Browns, Bird
sboro, have resulted in fewer cows
going off feed once they enter the
high nrodiifinp group in the free
sum uorn. "1 did a lot of extra
drenching without the Ketokurb,”
Kline adds.
Kline also credits David Hart
man and Carl Brown for for
mulating better rations through
forage testing and use of a mixer
wagon.
Dick Kline also has high regards
for Dr. David Nirschl, Willow
Creek Animal Hospital
veterinarian.
“We complement each other,”
Kline says. “If you don’t follow
your veterinarian’s instructions,
you’re wasting your money. I
follow his instructions.”
Kline, however, through his own
experience with dairy cows, was
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Locally consigned cows 400.
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Springing heifers 450.00-800.00.
Open Heifers 240.00-485.00.
Bulls 250.00-500.00.
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able to teach Dr. Nirschl
something. “I noticed that when
we treated infected uteri, the
udder edema would go down. We
started treating cows with extreme
edema and it would help that and
clean up her uterus.”
“When I mentioned this to Dr.
Nirschl, he said, ‘well that’s a new
one to me, but you’re paying for
it.”
“It works, but he didn’t believe it
at first,” Kline says.
(This does work. On the advice of
Dr. Nirschl, the author ex
perienced good results on her own
cows.)
Kline currently has cut down on
milking the cows as Dean Hartman
has assumed more of the milking
chores. But, he remains adamant
about his procedures in calf
raising.
“I’m fussy about the tem
perature of the milk,” he says.
Kline starts his calves on bottles
to make sure they get the
colostrum into their stomachs. He
feeds whole milk. By bottle
feeding, Kline says, the calf learns
to drink better, and knows about
feeding time when it gets out to the
hutches.
Calves are raised in hutches
until eight weeks old. The hutches
are placed on a bed of stones for
proper drainage and plenty of
clean straw is always in the hutch.
They are changed to bucket
feeding in the hutches. For four
weeks the calf gets two quarts of
whole milk twice a day. In the fifth
week, a half of quart of milk is
replaced with warm water. Each
week thereafter, more of the milk
is replaced with water. At the end
of eight weeks the calf is drinking
all water and eating well. At this
time they are grouped in box stalls.
If a calf does not drink, Kline will
use a stomach tube to make sure
that it receives its colostrum and
he feeds very little mastitic milk.
“I think if people would take a
little more time,” Kline continues,
“their calves would do much
better.”
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“We all try to watch for heats,”
Kline says. “I watch all the time.
As soon as you see a little
commotion, you watch a little
closer,” he continues.
Bulls are selected from the top of
the list by Dean Hartman and
Kline. “We all have our favorite
cows,” he adds. “I pick the bulls
for mine.”
Although he owns no cows of his
own, Kline does own a share in a
son of the “Ivy” cow and uses the
semen in the Hartman herd.
“It’s very interesting,” he
repeats about dairy cows and
enjoys the excitement of selecting
bulls, waiting for a heifer calf, and
then waiting to see how she turns
out.
He offers these tips for potential
herdsmen. “You got to get in
volved in it.” “If you are milking
and you know your cows, you’ll be
able to pick up when a cow is sick.”
“If you don’t see this kind of stuff,
a lot of animals will be going to
slaughter,” he concludes.
Advocating monthly herd
checks, Kline also repeats, “being
able to pick up on a sick animal is
one of the most important things.”
Kline also has charge of the
yearly farm tours that Scattered
Acres hosts in conjunction with
Berks County Farm-City Week,
and he spends weeks of
preparation for this. Everything is
washed down and spotless for city
visitors. This dedicated herdsman
also adds that he gets along real
well with the milk inspector.
“He always writes on our paper,
“thanks for the good job,” Kline
proudly states.
This herdsman loves his job
working with the cows and calves.
He adds that his employers make it
even more enjoyable by trusting
him with full responsibility for the
dairy herd.
“They don’t get on my back,” he
adds and says that this could make
a difference in someone doing the
best job they could.
He concludes, “I don’t think
there is anything more miserable
then doing a job that you don’t like
to do.” '