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calf's sucking on all the momma's
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<blockquote data-quote="MichaelB" data-source="post: 868460" data-attributes="member: 8794"><p>I've had a bit of a problem with that this year. The heifer calved first, and then my older cow calved a month later. The older cow kept the heifer's calf away until her own was about a week old (which tells me that the second calf got its fair share of colostrum), and then the heifer's calf found out that the her old Auntie was hosting a titty bar.</p><p></p><p>I was concerned about this, but the heifer seems to be tapped regularly and appeared to be giving a lot of milk when I watched her nurse. I was worried that the smaller calf wasn't getting it's share, but this the older cow is my bottle-teated Tarentaise with a dairy sized udder, and both of the calves are growing very well.</p><p></p><p>This morning they happened to be in the barn and both calves were sucking off the older cow at the same time, so I'm not going to worry about it anymore. Both of my cows have the same dam, maybe there is a familial approach to raising the calves?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MichaelB, post: 868460, member: 8794"] I've had a bit of a problem with that this year. The heifer calved first, and then my older cow calved a month later. The older cow kept the heifer's calf away until her own was about a week old (which tells me that the second calf got its fair share of colostrum), and then the heifer's calf found out that the her old Auntie was hosting a titty bar. I was concerned about this, but the heifer seems to be tapped regularly and appeared to be giving a lot of milk when I watched her nurse. I was worried that the smaller calf wasn't getting it's share, but this the older cow is my bottle-teated Tarentaise with a dairy sized udder, and both of the calves are growing very well. This morning they happened to be in the barn and both calves were sucking off the older cow at the same time, so I'm not going to worry about it anymore. Both of my cows have the same dam, maybe there is a familial approach to raising the calves? [/QUOTE]
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