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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1742734" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Some of them are very notional... and yep, they're female... You will just have to find her"comfort zone" and then she might get it together... If she is getting after the calves when you are not trying to get them to nurse, she is associating them with being a PITA... coming from a dairy she is used to being milked 2 x a day... get her back to that for a bit, and if she starts accepting them more then go back to try leaving them with her for longer periods of time. Since she is a first calf heifer... she has a lot of learning to get through... if she still has a lot of edema, she might still be a bit sore... and they don't like being butted as much. But I think alot of it is that she wasn't a "momma first" so really has no idea of what she is supposed to do. That mothering instinct has been bred out of them to a great degree... dairies don't want/care if they do more than drop them and maybe get them cleaned up and pass the after birth... then the calf gets taken away... they come in, get milked... and go out and that's it...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1742734, member: 25884"] Some of them are very notional... and yep, they're female... You will just have to find her"comfort zone" and then she might get it together... If she is getting after the calves when you are not trying to get them to nurse, she is associating them with being a PITA... coming from a dairy she is used to being milked 2 x a day... get her back to that for a bit, and if she starts accepting them more then go back to try leaving them with her for longer periods of time. Since she is a first calf heifer... she has a lot of learning to get through... if she still has a lot of edema, she might still be a bit sore... and they don't like being butted as much. But I think alot of it is that she wasn't a "momma first" so really has no idea of what she is supposed to do. That mothering instinct has been bred out of them to a great degree... dairies don't want/care if they do more than drop them and maybe get them cleaned up and pass the after birth... then the calf gets taken away... they come in, get milked... and go out and that's it... [/QUOTE]
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