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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1800648" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>It does seem odd, they usually seem to forget all about people once they get back on a cow and out with the herd.</p><p>We had a black commercial Angus heifer get bred by the neighbors Jersey bull. Ironically the heifer didn't have enough milk, so we pulled her off and colostrumed her and then gave milk a time or two, then looked like the heifer had a real full udder so we put them back together. After a week or so the calf seemed sluggish and always trying to nurse, so pulled her back off and bottled her. She never did bond with us and is one of the distant cows we have today.</p><p>Even with bottling hundreds of calves from my dairy calf raising years as well as a beef calf or two a year, I've only had one heifer like you describe. Bottle bulls are a different subject.</p><p>My first Holstein heifer was that way and when she got to be a year old or so was big enough and rough enough to push me around just pushing her head around like she was using me as scratching post. Right or wrong, after a few failed attempts at giving subtle hints, I got pretty tough back with her once and that stopped it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1800648, member: 24816"] It does seem odd, they usually seem to forget all about people once they get back on a cow and out with the herd. We had a black commercial Angus heifer get bred by the neighbors Jersey bull. Ironically the heifer didn’t have enough milk, so we pulled her off and colostrumed her and then gave milk a time or two, then looked like the heifer had a real full udder so we put them back together. After a week or so the calf seemed sluggish and always trying to nurse, so pulled her back off and bottled her. She never did bond with us and is one of the distant cows we have today. Even with bottling hundreds of calves from my dairy calf raising years as well as a beef calf or two a year, I’ve only had one heifer like you describe. Bottle bulls are a different subject. My first Holstein heifer was that way and when she got to be a year old or so was big enough and rough enough to push me around just pushing her head around like she was using me as scratching post. Right or wrong, after a few failed attempts at giving subtle hints, I got pretty tough back with her once and that stopped it. [/QUOTE]
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