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Lost Calf should I and can I graft a calf ?
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<blockquote data-quote="TexasCountryWoman" data-source="post: 34823" data-attributes="member: 425"><p>If you do ever end up having to "graft" a calf, I have done it a number of times when i had my full-blood Holstein, and do it occasionally with my Holstein/Herford cross. In the first few days after calving, I would buy a baby calf at the sale barn, take it right to the vet for shots, antibiotics and a health checkup. My cows never really cared about the extra calf after the first nursing or two. My Holstein would regularly raise three calves easily. Her own, and two orphans and they would do well and it was quite profitable. The Hereford/Holstein can easily fatten two. I would separate Momma cow from the little ones till she really needed to have them nurse, then it was a free for all and she did not care if they were her calves or not by that point. After only a week, she could be turned out of the lot and the three calves would follow her like a litter and she treated them all the same. I would always buy beef calves to put on these cows. I would rub "poop" and urine from the original calf on the new calves and this seemed to do the trick as far as fooling the Mommas cows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasCountryWoman, post: 34823, member: 425"] If you do ever end up having to "graft" a calf, I have done it a number of times when i had my full-blood Holstein, and do it occasionally with my Holstein/Herford cross. In the first few days after calving, I would buy a baby calf at the sale barn, take it right to the vet for shots, antibiotics and a health checkup. My cows never really cared about the extra calf after the first nursing or two. My Holstein would regularly raise three calves easily. Her own, and two orphans and they would do well and it was quite profitable. The Hereford/Holstein can easily fatten two. I would separate Momma cow from the little ones till she really needed to have them nurse, then it was a free for all and she did not care if they were her calves or not by that point. After only a week, she could be turned out of the lot and the three calves would follow her like a litter and she treated them all the same. I would always buy beef calves to put on these cows. I would rub "poop" and urine from the original calf on the new calves and this seemed to do the trick as far as fooling the Mommas cows. [/QUOTE]
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