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Anyone let a Bottle Baby run in a pasture?
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<blockquote data-quote="Putangitangi" data-source="post: 1004211" data-attributes="member: 5956"><p>Presumably your other cows have calves as well? Once they're that old, I don't think I've ever seen any of my cows come to the rescue if her calf gets a knock from another cow; that's just part of learning to be a bovine (remember when we used to be allowed to reprimand other people's children if they were up to no good?) If some predator turned up in the paddock, I bet every cow would be there to see it off anyway, since danger to one implies danger to all.</p><p></p><p>We have an orphan this year. He went pretty nuts in the 24hrs after his mother stopped producing milk and before I was able to yard and feed him (his mother had an intussusseption and had to be shot before she died anyway), but once he was onto his third feed, he was coming to the bottle in a small yard and then he went out grazing with the house-cow whose milk he's continuing to be fed each day (no way she'll let him take it direct). The calf was 11 weeks old when his mother died, so bigger than yours, but it was important that he be out eating pasture and learning to be a steer, not a human. </p><p></p><p>I reared a bull calf one year from two weeks on powdered milk and he was out in the paddock with the cows, ran over to me when I called with his bottle. Did fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Putangitangi, post: 1004211, member: 5956"] Presumably your other cows have calves as well? Once they're that old, I don't think I've ever seen any of my cows come to the rescue if her calf gets a knock from another cow; that's just part of learning to be a bovine (remember when we used to be allowed to reprimand other people's children if they were up to no good?) If some predator turned up in the paddock, I bet every cow would be there to see it off anyway, since danger to one implies danger to all. We have an orphan this year. He went pretty nuts in the 24hrs after his mother stopped producing milk and before I was able to yard and feed him (his mother had an intussusseption and had to be shot before she died anyway), but once he was onto his third feed, he was coming to the bottle in a small yard and then he went out grazing with the house-cow whose milk he's continuing to be fed each day (no way she'll let him take it direct). The calf was 11 weeks old when his mother died, so bigger than yours, but it was important that he be out eating pasture and learning to be a steer, not a human. I reared a bull calf one year from two weeks on powdered milk and he was out in the paddock with the cows, ran over to me when I called with his bottle. Did fine. [/QUOTE]
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