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Can I re-induce lactation after 28 days?
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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1627349" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>Thanks! Yesterday morning he appeared to wait for our arrival and for me to enter the pen and stand by the cow before he tried sucking. Not too surprising, since he was rejected and abandoned by the birth Mom. Pushed away for a week by my first attempt at grafting and again for 3 days by Mama #3. I think he was convinced he could not suck unless the cow was in the chute.</p><p></p><p>He sucked again when we checked them in the evening. This time he didn't wait until I got closer to the cow, but did seem to have been waiting for our arrival. This morning we found him casually sucking when we arrived. He came over to check me out and it was obvious his tummy was full. He played around while I fed the cow some hay, and then went back to suck a little more. Tomorrow I will release them into a small grass paddock. </p><p></p><p>This was a bit of an ordeal, but I really hate having a bottle calf if there is a way to avoid it. I had often read people suggesting that after just a few days it was too late to graft a calf on a cow, and I wondered if that were really true. My experience this year suggests there is a much bigger window than most people would guess. 28 days was certainly a gamble and I failed with that one, but I succeeded at 7, 9 and even 17 days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1627349, member: 9933"] Thanks! Yesterday morning he appeared to wait for our arrival and for me to enter the pen and stand by the cow before he tried sucking. Not too surprising, since he was rejected and abandoned by the birth Mom. Pushed away for a week by my first attempt at grafting and again for 3 days by Mama #3. I think he was convinced he could not suck unless the cow was in the chute. He sucked again when we checked them in the evening. This time he didn't wait until I got closer to the cow, but did seem to have been waiting for our arrival. This morning we found him casually sucking when we arrived. He came over to check me out and it was obvious his tummy was full. He played around while I fed the cow some hay, and then went back to suck a little more. Tomorrow I will release them into a small grass paddock. This was a bit of an ordeal, but I really hate having a bottle calf if there is a way to avoid it. I had often read people suggesting that after just a few days it was too late to graft a calf on a cow, and I wondered if that were really true. My experience this year suggests there is a much bigger window than most people would guess. 28 days was certainly a gamble and I failed with that one, but I succeeded at 7, 9 and even 17 days. [/QUOTE]
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