We are down to our last heifer to calve. Still have a few cows crossing the finish line.. This is the time I think, I'll have more time. But no, getting hay cut and the guys hooked the shredder to a tractor and said 'Have at it'.....I have so many things I want to do...
Yesterday I spent the evening getting a calf to nurse. The cows udder is big and low and calf tall, but there is absolutely no reason she shouldn't be able to nurse, instead noses in arm pit and flank.... This has been an ongoing thing since sunday.. Yesterday I nearly blew my top, everything went wrong, from cow not cooperating to calf was covered in calf poop and it was hot...The cow milks so easy and has beautiful milk..I give the calf a taste to wake it up with a bottle, push it up to the cow in the chute, gets a teat in mouth, sucks a couple times and quits. UGH!!!! This every time, since sunday.. she'll nurse a bottle fine, but has no interest in a teat.. This morning I had help, did the same steps, calf was wide away and very hungry. Finally got the calf to drain half the udder. Before she was tired and full, we let the cow out with her. I walk to the house to get my 4wheeler and drive by, nose way up in the cows flank.....AGH!!! Classic Simmental case of LUTCS....low udder tall calf syndrome. I'm all too familiar to this condition since so many sims of last century had this.. Its been years, still don't like it...
Yesterday I spent the evening getting a calf to nurse. The cows udder is big and low and calf tall, but there is absolutely no reason she shouldn't be able to nurse, instead noses in arm pit and flank.... This has been an ongoing thing since sunday.. Yesterday I nearly blew my top, everything went wrong, from cow not cooperating to calf was covered in calf poop and it was hot...The cow milks so easy and has beautiful milk..I give the calf a taste to wake it up with a bottle, push it up to the cow in the chute, gets a teat in mouth, sucks a couple times and quits. UGH!!!! This every time, since sunday.. she'll nurse a bottle fine, but has no interest in a teat.. This morning I had help, did the same steps, calf was wide away and very hungry. Finally got the calf to drain half the udder. Before she was tired and full, we let the cow out with her. I walk to the house to get my 4wheeler and drive by, nose way up in the cows flank.....AGH!!! Classic Simmental case of LUTCS....low udder tall calf syndrome. I'm all too familiar to this condition since so many sims of last century had this.. Its been years, still don't like it...