Saw her let the one that I got with her nurse on her own today. Still won't let other one nurse, unless in coral with me there. But I guess improvement is improvement!
I gave up, I turned all them out with the rest of my cows. They ran out of grass in the little pen I had them in. At least the calves are eating grain, so they will survive. Just wish it would have worked out like I'd planed.
The third strike was neither calf was very aggressive with her...
So I bought her from a neighbor down the road. He wouldn't sell me her calf with her, but sold me another one that was also nursing her (I saw him nurse her). But now at my place I put her in a small pen with the calf she came with and another calf. All she does is bawl, and swats at anything...
I've got a 2 month old bottle calf, and I recently acquired a nurse cow. What is the best way to get the calf to start nursing her? Or is it a lost cause? Just thought calf would do better mothered up than it will on it's own.
I sold a great looking heifer for that reason. It sucks, but it's better than her sucking everything on the place. I tried nose rings, I tried separation, nothing worked. Hated to see her go, but she was determined she wasn't stopping.
Sorry to hear that. How many more you have to calve? Hopefully the rest will go good.
As far as the weather : you know what they say about Missouri weather. If you don't like it wait five minutes it will change! Lol. I take that back it's not funny I'm outside working today! I'm frozen, and...
Glad to hear everything is going good.
I've always liked the braunveih cattle, ut you don't see very many. At least around where I'm at. Are they hard to find, or just not very many people raise them?