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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1018649" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>Don't give up yet. I had one pretty similar year before last. In my case the calf that died was one month and the grafted calf a few days younger. It took me a few weeks, but she finally accepted it. It sounds to me like you are getting close to getting acceptance. I have a good friend who told me he has done this many times over the last 40 years and never had one not accept eventually. The longest took him a month. I was ready to give up at about a week but he encouraged me to keep trying, and I was really glad I did. If you get her to take the calf, that calf will do much better than if you wean him at only 7 weeks.</p><p></p><p>I might try putting them together in a pen where he has room to get away, but she can't walk off too far and leave him. That worked for me, but in my case the cow would not hunt him down to hurt him. She only kicked when he approached her. I checked on them several times each day. The calf associated my arrival with dinner time and would go over and try to eat. If the cow kicked at him, I caught her and let him eat. Finally one day I went down and the calf went to the cow and she let him eat without a problem. From then on she loved that calf like her on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1018649, member: 9933"] Don't give up yet. I had one pretty similar year before last. In my case the calf that died was one month and the grafted calf a few days younger. It took me a few weeks, but she finally accepted it. It sounds to me like you are getting close to getting acceptance. I have a good friend who told me he has done this many times over the last 40 years and never had one not accept eventually. The longest took him a month. I was ready to give up at about a week but he encouraged me to keep trying, and I was really glad I did. If you get her to take the calf, that calf will do much better than if you wean him at only 7 weeks. I might try putting them together in a pen where he has room to get away, but she can't walk off too far and leave him. That worked for me, but in my case the cow would not hunt him down to hurt him. She only kicked when he approached her. I checked on them several times each day. The calf associated my arrival with dinner time and would go over and try to eat. If the cow kicked at him, I caught her and let him eat. Finally one day I went down and the calf went to the cow and she let him eat without a problem. From then on she loved that calf like her on. [/QUOTE]
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