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<blockquote data-quote="Brute 23" data-source="post: 1682979" data-attributes="member: 6291"><p>Naw, its not. Its widely accepted that singling out herd animals is asking for trouble. Especially when their young are involved.</p><p></p><p>You may choose to operate differently and that's ok, but you are going against their natural instincts, which comes with it's own problems.</p><p></p><p>In many operations, such as ours, I'd really question her mothering ability if she had just stayed in that pen and not thrown a fit.</p><p></p><p>I had to get a dead calf from a momma a year ago. It was heart breaking. She was trying to nudge it and she has wore the ground to the dirt. She was skinny and probably about the give out from fighting off buzzards but she dis not leave that calf. It took some trickery to get the calf away from her. She was going to stay by that dead calf if it killed her.</p><p></p><p>That's the kind of cows that earns their keep here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brute 23, post: 1682979, member: 6291"] Naw, its not. Its widely accepted that singling out herd animals is asking for trouble. Especially when their young are involved. You may choose to operate differently and that's ok, but you are going against their natural instincts, which comes with it's own problems. In many operations, such as ours, I'd really question her mothering ability if she had just stayed in that pen and not thrown a fit. I had to get a dead calf from a momma a year ago. It was heart breaking. She was trying to nudge it and she has wore the ground to the dirt. She was skinny and probably about the give out from fighting off buzzards but she dis not leave that calf. It took some trickery to get the calf away from her. She was going to stay by that dead calf if it killed her. That's the kind of cows that earns their keep here. [/QUOTE]
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