So when you help a cow clean a calf what do you use? Towels/rags, hay or ??
What drives me nuts is that the cow's tongue does such a great job of cleaning (of course, ma nature at her best) and drying the calf and my towels and hair dryer seem to take forever. Is there an enzyme or something in cow saliva that breaks down the afterbirth and fluids?? Or is is just the rough tongue and probably her swallowing the stuff that works so much better. My rough towels stimulate the heck out of them but don't absorb the goo...anyone have any special secrets that they use?
We prefer to let the girls do it on their own but since it is 20-30 some degrees below zero (wind chill) we have to get them dry and warm NOW or there isn't a calf to worry about.
What drives me nuts is that the cow's tongue does such a great job of cleaning (of course, ma nature at her best) and drying the calf and my towels and hair dryer seem to take forever. Is there an enzyme or something in cow saliva that breaks down the afterbirth and fluids?? Or is is just the rough tongue and probably her swallowing the stuff that works so much better. My rough towels stimulate the heck out of them but don't absorb the goo...anyone have any special secrets that they use?
We prefer to let the girls do it on their own but since it is 20-30 some degrees below zero (wind chill) we have to get them dry and warm NOW or there isn't a calf to worry about.