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Breeding / Calving Issues
Orphan calf feeding on bottle well, still nursing dry cow
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<blockquote data-quote="Keren" data-source="post: 686233" data-attributes="member: 3195"><p>we had a calf one year who sucked her mother, but also sucked a dry cow. The dry cow looked after her all the time, licked her, etc. So I dont really see any harm in letting your calf suck the dry cow as well as the bottle. The cow will socialise the calf and you wont have a friendly bottle fed nuisance when she grows up</p><p></p><p>I'd stop giving her the water in the bottle, just the milk. She needs to learn to drink water from a bucket/trough etc</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keren, post: 686233, member: 3195"] we had a calf one year who sucked her mother, but also sucked a dry cow. The dry cow looked after her all the time, licked her, etc. So I dont really see any harm in letting your calf suck the dry cow as well as the bottle. The cow will socialise the calf and you wont have a friendly bottle fed nuisance when she grows up I'd stop giving her the water in the bottle, just the milk. She needs to learn to drink water from a bucket/trough etc [/QUOTE]
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