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When cows are getting ready to calve they are very willing to let a calf who is not theirs nurse and accept it as theirs. This is why it is important, if at all possible, to separate those who have calved from those who haven't.

I am a little late to this but if we had this situation we would pull both calves off for a couple hours, make sure they are hungry, give the cow a quarter CC of Rompun and get the calves onto her. Even with grafting calves this on its own works most of the time, on rare occasion we will have...

Never did it with cattle but I have had it happen with sheep once but the other way around, son breeding his dam, and nothing weird happened. If your cows so genetically homogeneous that one instance of extreme line breeding caused a major defect that would be a real surprise. That said, in a...

First off given your estimated cow size I would agree there shouldn't be a huge problem if your birthweight did increase. Granted, like you said, you aren't sure on their size. If you are comfortable at what your current bull throws for calves then why not go for a bull with a similar BW and...

That seems like a big jump for just 10 $w though it depends where in the scale, where that base price was, what the other epds were, whether they were 50k tested(makes the epds somewhat more reliable), etc. For instance BW plays into the %w and often have more effect on price than it probably...