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<blockquote data-quote="VC Rancher" data-source="post: 813635" data-attributes="member: 16212"><p>For right now, because I am very new at this, I have started doing the following:</p><p></p><p>1) I have put the cow out to pasture with the calf during the day. Most of the grass is pretty new so the protein should be pretty good.</p><p>2) I put the calf in an electric fence pen that I built on the pasture at 4pm so he can be near the cow but not be stressed out...that has worked pretty good.</p><p>3) I go out at 6am and milk the cow. This morning it took me 1 hour to get 5 cups of milk.</p><p>4) After I am done milking as much as I can or have the patience for, I lead the cow over to the calf and let the calf out of the pen. The calf then immediately starts nursing.</p><p></p><p>The reason I started doing this is that I am not confident that I will be able to strip the cow and so I let the calf back on to finish off what I didn't take.</p><p></p><p>What do you think?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VC Rancher, post: 813635, member: 16212"] For right now, because I am very new at this, I have started doing the following: 1) I have put the cow out to pasture with the calf during the day. Most of the grass is pretty new so the protein should be pretty good. 2) I put the calf in an electric fence pen that I built on the pasture at 4pm so he can be near the cow but not be stressed out...that has worked pretty good. 3) I go out at 6am and milk the cow. This morning it took me 1 hour to get 5 cups of milk. 4) After I am done milking as much as I can or have the patience for, I lead the cow over to the calf and let the calf out of the pen. The calf then immediately starts nursing. The reason I started doing this is that I am not confident that I will be able to strip the cow and so I let the calf back on to finish off what I didn't take. What do you think? [/QUOTE]
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