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Grafting a twin to a heifer?
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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1630018" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>Unless you have a heifer like the one TCRanch mentions, I'm sure with a little time and repeated nursing in the chute, she will accept the calf. A heifer that rejects her own calf is rare and should always be culled IMO. Some will accept a grafted calf in less than a day but most take a little time. Usually if the heifer lost the calf at birth, and you can get a replacement on her that same day, acceptance comes quickly. If it has been a few days, it will probably take longer. I certainly would not be concerned if you've only been at this a day. Unless she is aggressive to the calf, leave them together in a small area where she can't get out of sight of the calf. Restrain the cow a few times a day, so the calf can nurse. I predict within the next day or two you will arrive in the morning and find a content calf with a full belly. I really don't know if O-NO-Mo works or not. I put it on because I have some and it makes me feel like I'm doing something. I can't say that a cow who was rejecting a grafted calf ever changed her mind as soon as I put the stuff on. It usually happens over night, when the cows udder gets uncomfortably full and the calf is hungry and persistent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1630018, member: 9933"] Unless you have a heifer like the one TCRanch mentions, I'm sure with a little time and repeated nursing in the chute, she will accept the calf. A heifer that rejects her own calf is rare and should always be culled IMO. Some will accept a grafted calf in less than a day but most take a little time. Usually if the heifer lost the calf at birth, and you can get a replacement on her that same day, acceptance comes quickly. If it has been a few days, it will probably take longer. I certainly would not be concerned if you've only been at this a day. Unless she is aggressive to the calf, leave them together in a small area where she can't get out of sight of the calf. Restrain the cow a few times a day, so the calf can nurse. I predict within the next day or two you will arrive in the morning and find a content calf with a full belly. I really don't know if O-NO-Mo works or not. I put it on because I have some and it makes me feel like I'm doing something. I can't say that a cow who was rejecting a grafted calf ever changed her mind as soon as I put the stuff on. It usually happens over night, when the cows udder gets uncomfortably full and the calf is hungry and persistent. [/QUOTE]
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