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<blockquote data-quote="annmariemz23" data-source="post: 1680513" data-attributes="member: 40498"><p>Electrolytes are like magic. Go to them first. You can kill a calf with too much food more easily than you can kill one with too little food. Funny story this year we had a heifer who didn't suckle her calf. We missed it in the sudden mass of births, and then found this stray calf we couldn't match with a mother. I separated the calves from the cows, and turned them back into the field a few hours later to see where the calf went. She went to a cow that we had watched calve a different baby. The cow was lying down. Our orphan rooted at her until she reluctantly got up and nursed it. The orphan had been seen robbing other cows also, but this was its favorite. This mother was a great big healthy cow, and she began to consider the second calf to be her own also. We have kept her in close to the house after taking the rest of the cows to the mountains so we can keep an eye on her with her "twins."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="annmariemz23, post: 1680513, member: 40498"] Electrolytes are like magic. Go to them first. You can kill a calf with too much food more easily than you can kill one with too little food. Funny story this year we had a heifer who didn't suckle her calf. We missed it in the sudden mass of births, and then found this stray calf we couldn't match with a mother. I separated the calves from the cows, and turned them back into the field a few hours later to see where the calf went. She went to a cow that we had watched calve a different baby. The cow was lying down. Our orphan rooted at her until she reluctantly got up and nursed it. The orphan had been seen robbing other cows also, but this was its favorite. This mother was a great big healthy cow, and she began to consider the second calf to be her own also. We have kept her in close to the house after taking the rest of the cows to the mountains so we can keep an eye on her with her "twins." [/QUOTE]
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