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How Often should a day old calf nurse?
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<blockquote data-quote="novatech" data-source="post: 368526" data-attributes="member: 5494"><p>I would not supplement the calf with anything but milk from the cow. If you do the calf will not be hungry and will not try to suck on mom. The cow will become to full and sore. When the calf tries to suck, the mother will kick it away. </p><p>If you get the cow in a chute and milk it out you can usually tell which tits have been sucked or not. Tits that have not been sucked will still have a seal in the end which you can feel when you try and milk. If any of them are open the calf probably got the colostrum. It may take a few days of milking and feeding and putting calf to tit to get things going right.</p><p>We have used a blue marker from the vet. We put it on the tit, if the calf sucks it will remove the marker.</p><p>The vet can do a protein test and see if the calf got the colostrum, but by then it is usually to late.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novatech, post: 368526, member: 5494"] I would not supplement the calf with anything but milk from the cow. If you do the calf will not be hungry and will not try to suck on mom. The cow will become to full and sore. When the calf tries to suck, the mother will kick it away. If you get the cow in a chute and milk it out you can usually tell which tits have been sucked or not. Tits that have not been sucked will still have a seal in the end which you can feel when you try and milk. If any of them are open the calf probably got the colostrum. It may take a few days of milking and feeding and putting calf to tit to get things going right. We have used a blue marker from the vet. We put it on the tit, if the calf sucks it will remove the marker. The vet can do a protein test and see if the calf got the colostrum, but by then it is usually to late. [/QUOTE]
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