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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 897555" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>The cow has to go. </p><p></p><p>I have a nursing crate I built for the nurse cow. It has two fold functions in that hungry calves can be crowded to the cow once she's in the crate and the calves learn she is the surrogate. Most calves don't need a lot of coaxing but some do. After three days or so all the calves smell like the nurse cow's calf. Turn them out to pasture. I can milk that cow. She just doesn't take to strange smelling calves. The crate works great. </p><p></p><p>I had a purchased beef heifer that was crated a few times so that her calf could nurse. After crating her a few times it got to be a problem to run her in to the crate. She eventually took the calf. That pair were sold as a 3 in 1 when the cow was preg checked at the barn and found to be light bred. If my nurse cow would have been wet at the time, that cow (heifer some of ya'll call them) would have been long gone much sooner.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 897555, member: 3162"] The cow has to go. I have a nursing crate I built for the nurse cow. It has two fold functions in that hungry calves can be crowded to the cow once she's in the crate and the calves learn she is the surrogate. Most calves don't need a lot of coaxing but some do. After three days or so all the calves smell like the nurse cow's calf. Turn them out to pasture. I can milk that cow. She just doesn't take to strange smelling calves. The crate works great. I had a purchased beef heifer that was crated a few times so that her calf could nurse. After crating her a few times it got to be a problem to run her in to the crate. She eventually took the calf. That pair were sold as a 3 in 1 when the cow was preg checked at the barn and found to be light bred. If my nurse cow would have been wet at the time, that cow (heifer some of ya'll call them) would have been long gone much sooner. [/QUOTE]
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