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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1654408" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Many of our cows "co-momma". I don't get alarmed by it unless I see one calf looking like it is constantly nursing, or it looks smaller or thinner. It will drag a first calf heifer down more; as she is being stimulated to make more milk and she will not hold her weight or breed back as fast. I would actually separate the one with the calf that is stealing, away from the first calf heifer and her calf, and see if the f.c. heifer lets anyone else nurse her. Don't know how many cows you have. I would also get the one in that you say has plenty of milk and really check her udder out. She might have problems that you aren't seeing. </p><p>I have 4 f.c. heifers now with calves and have seen more than one calf on a couple of them so I just let well enough alone. The calves all look good and the fc heifers are in good flesh. But I also calve out my fc heifers separately from the cows so they all get the same "chance" and don't have to compete or fight off other cows and their calves at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1654408, member: 25884"] Many of our cows "co-momma". I don't get alarmed by it unless I see one calf looking like it is constantly nursing, or it looks smaller or thinner. It will drag a first calf heifer down more; as she is being stimulated to make more milk and she will not hold her weight or breed back as fast. I would actually separate the one with the calf that is stealing, away from the first calf heifer and her calf, and see if the f.c. heifer lets anyone else nurse her. Don't know how many cows you have. I would also get the one in that you say has plenty of milk and really check her udder out. She might have problems that you aren't seeing. I have 4 f.c. heifers now with calves and have seen more than one calf on a couple of them so I just let well enough alone. The calves all look good and the fc heifers are in good flesh. But I also calve out my fc heifers separately from the cows so they all get the same "chance" and don't have to compete or fight off other cows and their calves at all. [/QUOTE]
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