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<blockquote data-quote="GreyGus" data-source="post: 1848375" data-attributes="member: 43616"><p><strong>I am pretty new to this game and have been watching this thread with interest. Never new about a pregnant cow "adopting" another's calf.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>My situation. I have 3 cows and 3 heifers due to calve this month. I moved them to a 10 acre pasture close to the house two weeks ago.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>I check them twice a day, and yesterday afternoon one of the heifers had moved herself to the opposite end of the field. Went to check her out and she had a calf curled up right beneath her. I don't think the calf was more than an hour old, she was still wet and momma's afterbirth was just about 10 feet away. While I watched the heifer was sniffing and licking the calf and would stand over her and Moo. The calf seemed alert, but was making no effort to stand up or nurse. I finally went over and helped the calf to her feet (mistake?) the heifer started to walk away, went about 40 feet, stopped and started mooing, the calf walked ,wobbly, over to her and started nursing. I went back about three hours later to ear tag the calf. Momma was still guarding her, and would nudge the calf to make her stand. I backed off about thirty feet just to watch until the calf got up and started nursing again. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Went out this morning to check the calf and see if any more had arrived. No new calves, but two of the other pregnant cows seemed very interested in the calf, one started licking her. When that happed the new momma nudged the calf to her feet, led her off a short distance and started nursing her. She has definitely bonded with her calf, hoping the other cows don't interfere.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreyGus, post: 1848375, member: 43616"] [B]I am pretty new to this game and have been watching this thread with interest. Never new about a pregnant cow "adopting" another's calf. My situation. I have 3 cows and 3 heifers due to calve this month. I moved them to a 10 acre pasture close to the house two weeks ago. I check them twice a day, and yesterday afternoon one of the heifers had moved herself to the opposite end of the field. Went to check her out and she had a calf curled up right beneath her. I don't think the calf was more than an hour old, she was still wet and momma's afterbirth was just about 10 feet away. While I watched the heifer was sniffing and licking the calf and would stand over her and Moo. The calf seemed alert, but was making no effort to stand up or nurse. I finally went over and helped the calf to her feet (mistake?) the heifer started to walk away, went about 40 feet, stopped and started mooing, the calf walked ,wobbly, over to her and started nursing. I went back about three hours later to ear tag the calf. Momma was still guarding her, and would nudge the calf to make her stand. I backed off about thirty feet just to watch until the calf got up and started nursing again. Went out this morning to check the calf and see if any more had arrived. No new calves, but two of the other pregnant cows seemed very interested in the calf, one started licking her. When that happed the new momma nudged the calf to her feet, led her off a short distance and started nursing her. She has definitely bonded with her calf, hoping the other cows don’t interfere.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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