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<blockquote data-quote="chippie" data-source="post: 817210" data-attributes="member: 5644"><p>I'm curious, why didn't you let the calf nurse? The colostrum is so important to it's health plus the calf's nursing will stimulate the cow contractions so that she can expel the afterbirth, plus the calf butting her udder and nursing will stimulate her to let her milk down.</p><p></p><p>We have family milk cows. We let the cow have the calf for at least 24 hours before separating them. My daughter's Jersey cow has a little heifer. My husband milks three quarters and leaves the fourth for the calf. It's funny, she knows where to go when I put her mother in the pen. I let her nurse, then turn the cow back out in the pasture.</p><p></p><p>good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chippie, post: 817210, member: 5644"] I'm curious, why didn't you let the calf nurse? The colostrum is so important to it's health plus the calf's nursing will stimulate the cow contractions so that she can expel the afterbirth, plus the calf butting her udder and nursing will stimulate her to let her milk down. We have family milk cows. We let the cow have the calf for at least 24 hours before separating them. My daughter's Jersey cow has a little heifer. My husband milks three quarters and leaves the fourth for the calf. It's funny, she knows where to go when I put her mother in the pen. I let her nurse, then turn the cow back out in the pasture. good luck. [/QUOTE]
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