lilfarmangel
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I don't know which other form to submit my concern to, but since these are dairy calves I was hoping this would be to place to be. VERY long story short, I ended up with a bum calf - the cow (registered jersey bred to an angus) dropped the calf a month early and died 4 days later - If you want the story, I'll tell it but for now there's another issue that's got me puzzled. My husband & I had already decided to buy a young dairy heifer and since we already had the bum calf it wouldn't be that much more effort to bottle feed a second. So we got a 3 month old, 3/4 jersey-1/4 holstein heifer, she was just days from being completely weaned. The bummer was 1 month old by the time we brought her home. Just last week I noticed a few minutes after I gave him is bottle he was searching for the heifers teat!! And she was letting him!! My first reaction was, "Cool!! She'll turn out to be a nurse cow." Then my second reaction was, "I wonder if he will cause her any damage?" The local vet said probably not but maybe separate them just to make sure. Now I'm wondering if the vet knows what she's talking about. Anyone out there with experience in a situation like this???