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Thought I would update this, just put the cow/calf pairs back together when I went home for lunch, the formerly reluctant mom was doing a good job trying to keep her calf away from these "new" cattle at first. :lol: She sniffed the other one and then ignored it, exactly what I'd hoped for...

I'm pretty green, but judging by that calves hooves hes been up doing something because theres dried and caked mud on all of them. But I suppose that doesn't mean its traveled far. :mrgreen:

Thats what I was guessing might have happened, thanks for confirming, as this is my first ever calving season I am doing a lot of on the job learning, or learning the hard way. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not complaining, when you learn lessons the hard way they have a way of sticking with...

The trouble starting... Dirty calf Yours truly giving colostrum to the dirty calf Mom and calf after a good lick down

Thanks everyone for awesome input, well after work I had to build a windbreak for the other pair and I then went to check on the confused mom and calf, the calf was laying down but I rousted the calf up to see if I could get her nursing, the first couple tries the heifer seem a little hesitant...

backhoeboogie, the other calf never nursed on this heifer I'm having problems with, actually the heifer was never interested in that calf until hers was born, she then began licking the 4 day old calf instead of hers. I did spray the heifers face and the calf with MotherUp. I could put the...

OK, right now they are laying down together about 5 or 6 feet apart, have been like that for an hour or so, we'll see how it goes when they get back up, the calf did steal a few sucks when the cow was distracted before so like you said, hopefully she lets her get a good nurse in. jerry, thats...

Hi guys, my other heifer gave birth to her first calf early this morning, unassisted. I was wondering if maybe the birth was a kinda hard or long though because the calf was covered in manure? I wiped most of this off but the mom didn't seem that interested in the calf and keeps trying to take...

Thanks everyone, after plowing snow this morning I had a chance to watch them to see how they are doing before I went to work and she was up nursing on momma and then decided to run around and buck, feels good knowing she's feeling good!

Thanks

Looks awesome! Good inspiration for me someday (hopefully) as I currently live on my family's old dairy farm.

This is easily the funniest thread I have ever read on here, had stifle several laughs because I am in the office!

Yup she's a heifer and actually it was almost 20 degrees yesterday, practically a heat wave for us this winter, of course today we've got 20+ mph winds and expected 6 inches of snow, but hey, its not -30 anymore so I can't complain lol

Sorry the one picture is blurry. This is my first calving season and calf and momma's first calf! Both are doing well and mom is doing a good job mothering her.

This is a picture of my OS-1, at least part of it, can't see the sweep part that well I guess

Here is some of my winter wonderland

Oops sorry, I did mean to say that OS1 was what I got. I had to wait a month or so for the store to put together a truck load from texas so I don't think mine was cheaper because it sat (unless it sat in texas, if it did they painted it before I got it ;-) )

Turdy Point Buck by Bananas at Large

I just got into beef cattle this year and I have a priefert premier open sweep, its the 90°, model number is S04 or S01 I think, used it yesterday and it worked to perfection. It also helped that I got it for $500 less than the price on their website from the fleet farm

http://beefmagazine.com/blog/year-end-analysis-shows-replacement-costs-are-surging This might be a good read in your situation