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<blockquote data-quote="CattleAnnie" data-source="post: 66379" data-attributes="member: 220"><p>True but had a strange thing happen last year with a cow that I'd bought as a bred.</p><p></p><p>She aborted when the calf was about a month from full term. No idea why, just did. Maybe somebody bunted her, maybe she slipped on the ice.</p><p></p><p>I had this orphan that I'd been bottling for three weeks until a likely graft cow came available (Honey and I call bums like him and twins 'insurance' calves as it means that in case of a death you've got a backup animal). His old momma twinned and died a week later, and I'd already grafted his sister onto a cow who had a backwards calf born with the bag over his head (missed that one by five minutes tops - maddening).</p><p></p><p>Anyway, the cow that aborted was a second calver, and really didn't make much of a bag, but she seemed mildly interested in her dead calf, so I figured what the heck after a couple days of mulling it over decided to pen her with the bum calf. Getting sick of mixing and buying calf replacer.</p><p></p><p>Ran her into the maternity pen, got him on those little teats and off he went. Wasn't much there but he cleaned out what there was. I kept running him in with her three times a day and still supplementing him with a couple of bottles a day and after a week he quit coming out to me when I brought his bottle.</p><p></p><p>I was suprised cause she sure didn't look like she had much milk, but he was full through the flanks and obviously not interested. She decided she loved him, always grooming the will-nots on his behind and calling after him when he wandered off, so I kicked them both out into the big bunch.</p><p></p><p>He was a late March calf. My son wanted him for his 4H steer, and when we weaned in early Nov he weighed 584 lbs. Not too bad for an orphan and a cow that aborted a month before term.</p><p></p><p>Anyone else ever come across a situation like this before?</p><p></p><p>Take care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CattleAnnie, post: 66379, member: 220"] True but had a strange thing happen last year with a cow that I'd bought as a bred. She aborted when the calf was about a month from full term. No idea why, just did. Maybe somebody bunted her, maybe she slipped on the ice. I had this orphan that I'd been bottling for three weeks until a likely graft cow came available (Honey and I call bums like him and twins 'insurance' calves as it means that in case of a death you've got a backup animal). His old momma twinned and died a week later, and I'd already grafted his sister onto a cow who had a backwards calf born with the bag over his head (missed that one by five minutes tops - maddening). Anyway, the cow that aborted was a second calver, and really didn't make much of a bag, but she seemed mildly interested in her dead calf, so I figured what the heck after a couple days of mulling it over decided to pen her with the bum calf. Getting sick of mixing and buying calf replacer. Ran her into the maternity pen, got him on those little teats and off he went. Wasn't much there but he cleaned out what there was. I kept running him in with her three times a day and still supplementing him with a couple of bottles a day and after a week he quit coming out to me when I brought his bottle. I was suprised cause she sure didn't look like she had much milk, but he was full through the flanks and obviously not interested. She decided she loved him, always grooming the will-nots on his behind and calling after him when he wandered off, so I kicked them both out into the big bunch. He was a late March calf. My son wanted him for his 4H steer, and when we weaned in early Nov he weighed 584 lbs. Not too bad for an orphan and a cow that aborted a month before term. Anyone else ever come across a situation like this before? Take care. [/QUOTE]
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