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How to know if your mama cow is milking calf good
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<blockquote data-quote="Huntet02" data-source="post: 1291160" data-attributes="member: 21195"><p>Rafter S</p><p>THank you for your reply so calf born last tues and today is sunday so not a full week old yet so here's my latest: I was ready to pull heifer calf home and bottle fed her without her mamma yest after mamma left her hidden in pasture for many hrs and calf couldn't even walk after I awakened her. Since we cannot, after 3 weekends of trying, get mama loaded in trailer, after me and hubby agreeing i was just gonna grab calf put in my car and head home, however my mom chewed me out telling me that calf runs around playing every morning and i was a fool, so i stayed the night and decided to check it out. </p><p>I had decided to pull her home after spending many hrs sitting 5 ft away watching baby nurse, she goes from teat to teat, not getting much of anything, her flanks are sunken, no visible milk residue on cows teats, nor calfs mouth AND cows bag looks like nothing much is really there--all that said i however do digress and believe 1 teat must be giving her a tiny amount after seeing quite a show this am. </p><p>At 7:30 i watched lil calf head butting other calf whose 3mos older, running like the wind back and forth zipping around: i was thrilled. This is our first calf born to us so we know little on how things are supposed to be BUT if a calf was starving i don't think it could be running like this right? :shock: </p><p> </p><p>I know many ranchers would laugh at us caring on so much for 1 little baby but this heifer is worth a lot of $ and 4H shows for us....Yours thoughts??</p><p><a href="http://s130.photobucket.com/user/Huntet02/media/IMG_20151114_1657251%202.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p276/Huntet02/IMG_20151114_1657251%202.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Huntet02, post: 1291160, member: 21195"] Rafter S THank you for your reply so calf born last tues and today is sunday so not a full week old yet so here's my latest: I was ready to pull heifer calf home and bottle fed her without her mamma yest after mamma left her hidden in pasture for many hrs and calf couldn't even walk after I awakened her. Since we cannot, after 3 weekends of trying, get mama loaded in trailer, after me and hubby agreeing i was just gonna grab calf put in my car and head home, however my mom chewed me out telling me that calf runs around playing every morning and i was a fool, so i stayed the night and decided to check it out. I had decided to pull her home after spending many hrs sitting 5 ft away watching baby nurse, she goes from teat to teat, not getting much of anything, her flanks are sunken, no visible milk residue on cows teats, nor calfs mouth AND cows bag looks like nothing much is really there--all that said i however do digress and believe 1 teat must be giving her a tiny amount after seeing quite a show this am. At 7:30 i watched lil calf head butting other calf whose 3mos older, running like the wind back and forth zipping around: i was thrilled. This is our first calf born to us so we know little on how things are supposed to be BUT if a calf was starving i don't think it could be running like this right? :shock: I know many ranchers would laugh at us caring on so much for 1 little baby but this heifer is worth a lot of $ and 4H shows for us....Yours thoughts?? [url=http://s130.photobucket.com/user/Huntet02/media/IMG_20151114_1657251%202.jpg.html][img]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p276/Huntet02/IMG_20151114_1657251%202.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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