SAV cows attack calves ?

[Richnm]

It's happened enough to me to believe someone else has noticed this. I had a couple serious injuries due to this. Resource /Renown cows as docile as they may be , seem to attack calves on the herd that are not theirs. Has anyone else noticed this ? Is it a learned behavior or genetic?

 

[TCRanch]

What do you mean by "attack"? As in full out bat shyt crazy and pummeling a calf for no apparent reason? Or bumping it none too gently if it's trying to rob or eat cubes?

 

[Richnm]

What do you mean by "attack"? As in full out bat shyt crazy and pummeling a calf for no apparent reason? Or bumping it none too gently if it's trying to rob or eat cubes?

Charging calves full steam , head down into fences etc.

 

[puzzled in oregon]

This is sort of like behavior I have seen in my cows in the last 2-3 yrs. And my cows are a very thorough mix of different breeds.
Example, if the dominant cow hits another cow, that cow will single out the dominate cows calf and knock it around.
I have no idea why, even if it involves feeding, I don't recall my cows behaving that way in the past.

 

[wbvs58]

I lost a calf just a couple of weeks ago. A cow had calved a couple of days previously up in the rocks and scrub of the paddock the herd had been in but had been moved to the next paddock. The cow and calf were down at the gate ready to join the herd so I climbed through a fence to open the gate and put them through. There were 4 or 5 cows there grazing , I came back to shut the gate and go back through the fence and came back to the Mule and looked over and here is the calf lying on the ground gasping for air with its mouth open and mm going blue. It was all over within a minute or two. I can only surmise that the calf went up to one of the cows that were getting close to calving thinking it was its mother and copped a decent sort of kick maybe in the abdomen and ruptured the diaphragm as that is what it looked like with it gasping for air or even just a pneumothorax. I didn't do an autopsy. Now in answer to your question, were there any SAV genetics involved? I dunno, could have been, I do have a couple cows by Renown and Resource. I just put it down to $hit happens.

Ken

 

[wbvs58]

Charging calves full steam , head down into fences etc.

Is this when yarded or out in the open paddock?

Ken

 

[Richnm]

Is this when yarded or out in the open paddock?

Ken

It has happened in both scenarios, only these bloodlines.

 

[Ebenezer]

707 link. Been known about for decades.

 

[Richnm]

707 makes sense , because my Net Worth cattle have never done this. So it is not the Traveler bloodlines.

 

[SBMF 2015]

707 makes sense , because my Net Worth cattle have never done this. So it is not the Traveler bloodlines.

Good old Net Worth mommas will all paw the ground and tear up the bedding in a calving pen. Most of them it's all bluff, but some really mean it.

 

[Richnm]

Good old Net Worth mommas will all paw the ground and tear up the bedding in a calving pen. Most of them it's all bluff, but some really mean it.

I found that out the fast way