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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 1818343" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>I pulled a "Murry". Brought home a 3 day old Angus bull calf!</p><p>Backtrack - We have been gone to NY State Fair - 5 days with our show string (did great!!). Anyway, had a guy feeding our freezer steers and supposed to be keeping an eye on our fall calving cows. 1 late & 1 due. Got home and late calver was down pushing. Upon walking out and checking her, she had a swollen, dry tongue sticking out. Ugh! Embryo calf. Put her in barn, got legs up, (calf DOA), got out to the hips. Hip locked. Got cane & twisted while nephew pulled with a puller. Got huge calf out. Red, white face heifer. Would have been easily a $6000 price tag. Double UGH!</p><p>Well, a friend that we have been helping the past 2 weeks (severely injured his hand) had a fall cow calf and she was a nut case. He saw nephew's FB post about our bad luck. He called and offered his bull calf to put on our cow because he was shipping his cow.</p><p>3 hour round trip, got calf home. Put O-No-More on calf, put with cow in a small pen. She licked the O-No-More off but didn't "love" the calf. Cow was not being at all mean, so we left them alone and proceeded to play catch up on the farm after being gone.</p><p>Turned our cameras on in the barn. At 7:30pm calf was hungry and started chasing cow. Cow was not interested. Wasn't mean, but would block the calf with her leg, or block it with her head. Calf was VERY aggressive and persistent. Calf won. Cow stood for him on and off. At midnight, he had free access to the udder. He was bucking and jumping. Great sight.</p><p>This is NOT something I do - I will splice a twin, but NEVER bring in an outside calf to the farm during calving season. We are weaning our Jan/Feb calves today or tomorrow, so I will turn the pair out on pasture with the drying up cows after a few days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 1818343, member: 968"] I pulled a "Murry". Brought home a 3 day old Angus bull calf! Backtrack - We have been gone to NY State Fair - 5 days with our show string (did great!!). Anyway, had a guy feeding our freezer steers and supposed to be keeping an eye on our fall calving cows. 1 late & 1 due. Got home and late calver was down pushing. Upon walking out and checking her, she had a swollen, dry tongue sticking out. Ugh! Embryo calf. Put her in barn, got legs up, (calf DOA), got out to the hips. Hip locked. Got cane & twisted while nephew pulled with a puller. Got huge calf out. Red, white face heifer. Would have been easily a $6000 price tag. Double UGH! Well, a friend that we have been helping the past 2 weeks (severely injured his hand) had a fall cow calf and she was a nut case. He saw nephew's FB post about our bad luck. He called and offered his bull calf to put on our cow because he was shipping his cow. 3 hour round trip, got calf home. Put O-No-More on calf, put with cow in a small pen. She licked the O-No-More off but didn't "love" the calf. Cow was not being at all mean, so we left them alone and proceeded to play catch up on the farm after being gone. Turned our cameras on in the barn. At 7:30pm calf was hungry and started chasing cow. Cow was not interested. Wasn't mean, but would block the calf with her leg, or block it with her head. Calf was VERY aggressive and persistent. Calf won. Cow stood for him on and off. At midnight, he had free access to the udder. He was bucking and jumping. Great sight. This is NOT something I do - I will splice a twin, but NEVER bring in an outside calf to the farm during calving season. We are weaning our Jan/Feb calves today or tomorrow, so I will turn the pair out on pasture with the drying up cows after a few days. [/QUOTE]
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