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<blockquote data-quote="cowgirl8" data-source="post: 1140055" data-attributes="member: 22072"><p>Over the years i've been told 10xs this many quick cures to get the cow to take a calf. It may work on a cow who is tame, but on a ranch cow it doesnt work. The latest one a cowboy told me that if i dusted the calves head with powdered milk the cow would take it...lol....Not sure how tame your cow is, if she is maybe these would work. But if your cow is a herd cow, never been haltered, never brushed and we have a bunch thats never seen a feed bucket or feed. I've worked with the most difficult girls who i thought they wouldnt take, eventually do if hobbled. I did have one who just totally refused and either she was going to die or the calf was going to die. She went to the sale because she wanted me to die.. </p><p>I had one this year that we thought we had them matched up. But, the heifer we grafted the calf to had been without a calf for 2 weeks. She hadnt totally dried up so we gave it a shot because the heifer was very gentle. In the corral she did fine as long as she had her head in a feed bucket, but after we put them in the pasture she refused to let it nurse. I think it was all a matter of waiting too long. So, i'm stuck with a bottle calf named Squirt, although no longer on a bottle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowgirl8, post: 1140055, member: 22072"] Over the years i've been told 10xs this many quick cures to get the cow to take a calf. It may work on a cow who is tame, but on a ranch cow it doesnt work. The latest one a cowboy told me that if i dusted the calves head with powdered milk the cow would take it...lol....Not sure how tame your cow is, if she is maybe these would work. But if your cow is a herd cow, never been haltered, never brushed and we have a bunch thats never seen a feed bucket or feed. I've worked with the most difficult girls who i thought they wouldnt take, eventually do if hobbled. I did have one who just totally refused and either she was going to die or the calf was going to die. She went to the sale because she wanted me to die.. I had one this year that we thought we had them matched up. But, the heifer we grafted the calf to had been without a calf for 2 weeks. She hadnt totally dried up so we gave it a shot because the heifer was very gentle. In the corral she did fine as long as she had her head in a feed bucket, but after we put them in the pasture she refused to let it nurse. I think it was all a matter of waiting too long. So, i'm stuck with a bottle calf named Squirt, although no longer on a bottle. [/QUOTE]
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