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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1800790" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>A dog training collar is an interesting idea.</p><p></p><p>I was sure disappointed with this calves heifer mother rejecting her calf. She was a registered Angus heifer that was the result of 6 generations of carefully selected and mostly AI breedings. All of the cows in those generations were good cows with nice dispositions and excellent mothers. She was an extremely attractive heifer, although bigger than I had expected. She was already bigger than most of the three year old cows, so that 96 pound birth came easily. Until the calf was born, I would have said she had a nice calm disposition. She also had a beautiful udder with perfect nipples and she was real easy to milk. </p><p></p><p>I had thought we would only need to put that calf on a few times and she would want to be a mother. Instead she fought us worse on day three than she did on day one. We had to tie her foot back or she would kick the calf. We put food down in front, hoping she would relax and eat. That only partially worked. She would eat for a minute or two and then violently fight the head gate leaping around until she shook the calf off, then she would go back to eating. The calf would go right back in and a few minutes latter, she'd go nuts again. Perhaps our gathering up the calf and taking it to shelter so quickly after birth caused confusion, but we have had to bring in others in similar situations and the heifers have always accepted the calves readily. I might have convinced her to take the calf if we had kept it up longer, but I had the cow that had lost her own 3 day old calf the day before this one was born, and I figured if I wasted more time on the heifer I would loose my oppurtunity to graft her on that cow. Besides, had I convinced her to raise the calf, I might have rationalized keeping her and giving her another chance. Best to get her out of here before I did something stupid like that. While second chance cows somtimes work out, I have lived to regret it more times than not. I have no qualms about selling her for beef, but I sure wish things had been different.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1800790, member: 9933"] A dog training collar is an interesting idea. I was sure disappointed with this calves heifer mother rejecting her calf. She was a registered Angus heifer that was the result of 6 generations of carefully selected and mostly AI breedings. All of the cows in those generations were good cows with nice dispositions and excellent mothers. She was an extremely attractive heifer, although bigger than I had expected. She was already bigger than most of the three year old cows, so that 96 pound birth came easily. Until the calf was born, I would have said she had a nice calm disposition. She also had a beautiful udder with perfect nipples and she was real easy to milk. I had thought we would only need to put that calf on a few times and she would want to be a mother. Instead she fought us worse on day three than she did on day one. We had to tie her foot back or she would kick the calf. We put food down in front, hoping she would relax and eat. That only partially worked. She would eat for a minute or two and then violently fight the head gate leaping around until she shook the calf off, then she would go back to eating. The calf would go right back in and a few minutes latter, she'd go nuts again. Perhaps our gathering up the calf and taking it to shelter so quickly after birth caused confusion, but we have had to bring in others in similar situations and the heifers have always accepted the calves readily. I might have convinced her to take the calf if we had kept it up longer, but I had the cow that had lost her own 3 day old calf the day before this one was born, and I figured if I wasted more time on the heifer I would loose my oppurtunity to graft her on that cow. Besides, had I convinced her to raise the calf, I might have rationalized keeping her and giving her another chance. Best to get her out of here before I did something stupid like that. While second chance cows somtimes work out, I have lived to regret it more times than not. I have no qualms about selling her for beef, but I sure wish things had been different. [/QUOTE]
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