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<blockquote data-quote="randiliana" data-source="post: 187373" data-attributes="member: 2308"><p>What we do, (since I hate to skin the dead calf) is to headgate the cow for a day or so to let the calf suck. We remove the calf from the cow in between since some cows will really beat the calf up if they don't want it. Then if she still doesn't want it after a couple of days, we hobble her back feet, and get a halter on her so if we need to we can tie her up. Then we leave them together until she either quits fighting or we decide it just is not going to happen. We do leave the hobbles on for a day or so longer than we think we need to just to make sure. Once the hobbles are off, we leave them in a small pen so we can watch them closer, and then slowly work up to larger pens with more cattle in them until we are certain that the adoption has worked. Normally this will take us less than 5 days until the hobbles are off and around 7 before we let them out with the main herd. This has worked for us 9/10 times, and even for cows that have lost older calves or that have lost their calves for a few days.</p><p></p><p>Randi</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="randiliana, post: 187373, member: 2308"] What we do, (since I hate to skin the dead calf) is to headgate the cow for a day or so to let the calf suck. We remove the calf from the cow in between since some cows will really beat the calf up if they don't want it. Then if she still doesn't want it after a couple of days, we hobble her back feet, and get a halter on her so if we need to we can tie her up. Then we leave them together until she either quits fighting or we decide it just is not going to happen. We do leave the hobbles on for a day or so longer than we think we need to just to make sure. Once the hobbles are off, we leave them in a small pen so we can watch them closer, and then slowly work up to larger pens with more cattle in them until we are certain that the adoption has worked. Normally this will take us less than 5 days until the hobbles are off and around 7 before we let them out with the main herd. This has worked for us 9/10 times, and even for cows that have lost older calves or that have lost their calves for a few days. Randi [/QUOTE]
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