tobemeghan
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Hello! I am new to the list and have a question. I had a Dexter cow and when I went to get her breed the I found that the man with the bull was selling out his stock and long story short I bought a 4yr pregnant cow from him. I was not expecting the cow to be so wild but she is. With work and the use of sweet feed my brother and I have been able to get close enough to her to pet her and quickly get and squirt or two of milk (she calved 11-19-09). We wanted her for a milk cow (as what we were going to use our first cow, who is very tame, for) but have come to the fact that that may never happen. She had her calf 11-19-09 while she was still at the other guys place. Once we got them both home the weather got so bad that we weren't able to work with the calf. He is now pretty wild and we aren't able to get close to him. He in his mother are in a small pen so we were able to corner him (and his mother) and got halters on them. We have been going in catching him, putting him on lead and petting him. It takes on person to hold onto the lead and be the "anchor" while the other one handles the calf. My question is is there anything food wise that would bring him around faster (or at all). His mother responded quick and well to the sweet feed so I was wondering if something like a little bit of molasses water in a bottle, etc. I know I would have to careful not to make him sick. Do you think it would be better to just keep working at catching and petting without a lure? I just hate chasing him down, don't want to traumatize the little guy and more than we have too.
Thanks for any input.
Thanks for any input.