Running Arrow Bill
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Just wondering.
We have a 3 yo cow out of a top bull & dam...aka "high dollar" parents. She had her 2nd calf this year (2013 and 2014). Cleaned up both, last year and this, let it nurse once. First one last year she rejected & allegedly stepped on and broke calve's hip which we had repaired and then bottle fed her. This year, no injuries to calf, but wife pulled her away same day and is bottle feeding her. This cow was bred each time to our top bull (the bull's calves have had no problems from several of our other cows).
A major breeder friend of ours may consider embryo flushing her for transplanting in a recipient cow.
My general question, then, "What is the probability that her egg implanted in a "motherly cow" would end up with another heifer that turned out to be another rejecting cow?" Having to bottle feed another rejected calf is a real pain in the wazoo...
Ideas? Comments?
P.S.: Wife won't hear of getting rid of this "rejecting" cow...at least not at this point in time.
We have a 3 yo cow out of a top bull & dam...aka "high dollar" parents. She had her 2nd calf this year (2013 and 2014). Cleaned up both, last year and this, let it nurse once. First one last year she rejected & allegedly stepped on and broke calve's hip which we had repaired and then bottle fed her. This year, no injuries to calf, but wife pulled her away same day and is bottle feeding her. This cow was bred each time to our top bull (the bull's calves have had no problems from several of our other cows).
A major breeder friend of ours may consider embryo flushing her for transplanting in a recipient cow.
My general question, then, "What is the probability that her egg implanted in a "motherly cow" would end up with another heifer that turned out to be another rejecting cow?" Having to bottle feed another rejected calf is a real pain in the wazoo...
Ideas? Comments?
P.S.: Wife won't hear of getting rid of this "rejecting" cow...at least not at this point in time.