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<blockquote data-quote="creekdrive" data-source="post: 1330526" data-attributes="member: 21216"><p>We always skin the dead calf & use duct tape to hold it onto the calf we are grafting onto the cow. Has always worked for us - sometimes if we are lucky it is instant. Usually we will still have to put the cow in the headgate & get the calf to suck a few times before she fully accepts it. Most of our cows will like the calf with the hide on until they smell the calfs face & realise something is not quite right. A couple years ago we grafted a solid bright white Char calf onto a black cow. The Char calf was probably 30 lbs bigger than the calf that had died so it looked pretty ridiculous with a little black patch of hide taped to it. The cow could tell something wasn't quite right - she would sniff the hide & think yup that is my calf, then she'd stand back & look, and you could just see her looking around wondering what kind of trick we were pulling on her. I think that one took 3 days & then they were bonded as well as any pair. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://postimg.org/image/8b2exbigx/" target="_blank"><img src="http://s32.postimg.org/8b2exbigx/694.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="creekdrive, post: 1330526, member: 21216"] We always skin the dead calf & use duct tape to hold it onto the calf we are grafting onto the cow. Has always worked for us - sometimes if we are lucky it is instant. Usually we will still have to put the cow in the headgate & get the calf to suck a few times before she fully accepts it. Most of our cows will like the calf with the hide on until they smell the calfs face & realise something is not quite right. A couple years ago we grafted a solid bright white Char calf onto a black cow. The Char calf was probably 30 lbs bigger than the calf that had died so it looked pretty ridiculous with a little black patch of hide taped to it. The cow could tell something wasn't quite right - she would sniff the hide & think yup that is my calf, then she'd stand back & look, and you could just see her looking around wondering what kind of trick we were pulling on her. I think that one took 3 days & then they were bonded as well as any pair. [url=http://postimg.org/image/8b2exbigx/][img]http://s32.postimg.org/8b2exbigx/694.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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