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I'd use coloring because I can't watch them every minute. Got a day job. If the momma cow sits on the ground, would the coloring be gone when the teats come in contact with the ground and therefore gives us a wrong impression?

I lost a calf in heavy rain two years ago. She was 10 days old. The last time I saw her alive was when she ran around with her tail in the air on a sunny weekend. Then it was heavy rain pouring down all week. My husband told me that the calf was not looking good. But when I got home from...

Okay, here is my question. Why did the tongue swell?

I have a question though. If a calf can be bred at 2 - 4 months, how can you run the mother cow together with the calf and the bull? We usually wean our calves at 6-7 months, while they are with the bull all the time.

I have a set of twin bulls two months ago. We left them to suck on the cow, and the cow lets them and mothers them. Things look okay to us. That was before I joined this forum. We were ignorant then.

I read somewhere that a cattle's poop should be brown, not black. If it is black, there is blood in it. True? When she was 1 week old, I saw her poop with an unmistakable red on it. I was thinking "blood" and miserably looking for a place to bury her. But she just grew up to three weeks now...

I have pics of poops from calves which I found puzzling. Calf A is nine weeks old, and she pooped right next to me. It is kind of solid with wrinkles and looks good to me. Calf B is eight weeks old. The poop was runny and it hit the ground with splashing noises. Calf C is three weeks...

Wow! By reading the postings here about twins, they could be double trouble. I think people who have live twin calves don't post their stories. I always thought sheep have twins,but cattle seldom have twins, at least not on my farm. After ten years of farming, we had our first set of twins...

Thank you. I'm still trying to learn. I think I didn't ask the question correctly. What I meant to ask is, to give the calf a full feeding of colostrum, how much colostrum should I feed the calf and get it done? For example, do I feed two quarts of colostrum in the first two hours, and then...

Thank you for the article. I'm glad to find out from the article that since "closure" will begin after feeding, it is not a good idea just to feed the calf little colostrum if he is not going to get much from the mother later on. In that case, give the calf a full meal. Does anyone know how...

Thank you very much for your advice. The baby girl sucking on the swollen teats (the teats were hard, tight, swollen and brownish on the outside) is now doing very well. The mother will definitely go to the auction, but we were wondering whether we should keep the girl as replacement. Your...

Hi, I have one more question because I have one more baby coming. Is it a good strategy if I feed a newborn (say right after birth) colostrum powder to "help" with the baby's colostrum absorption, even though the baby might get some from the mother? I always thought we should not...

Thank you for all your replies. I rushed to the store to buy colostrum powder on Sunday (the baby was born on Friday). Even the store woman told me "it's too late, honey", but I fed her anyway, just in case. I felt better to think that I did all I could for the baby. In the article about...

Last year we bought an old hereford beef cow from a neighbor. Last Friday, she gave birth to a baby girl. I went to work on Friday so on Saturday morning I checked on mother and baby. The mother's three teats were all swollen and tight and reddish-brown looking. The baby slept a lot. When...