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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1672772" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Just to steal a little slice of your thread..... I have a jer/hol nurse cow that raised 5 last year. Then she had 3 on her this lactation since I was dealing with the ankle replacement & in the walking boot for a long time. We shipped calves Friday, including her 3; she had gotten thinner than I liked and I said she was getting a break regardless of how far along bred she is.... So on Saturday, my son had a new 1st calf heifer.... 1 of 12 he bought a week ago..... calve and prolapsed. I found her and told him so he called the vet and they got it put back in but she didn't look good. I was at a farm testing at this point. He found the calf which I never saw since I didn't have alot of time before going to work. They got the calf to suck colostrum off the cow while she was laying down, then she got up and it sucked some more he said. He went to check on her last night and she died.... so they brought the calf to the barn. He asked if I thought the nurse cow might take it... I said try her. He gave her some grain and the calf did go on her. Then he locked the calf in the alley and let the cow back out. This morning I went back up and got her in, grained her and put the calf in there. She moved around a bit, kept looking at me, smelling the calf, but let it go on her and it nursed good. She picked up her foot once and half heartedly kicked/pushed it away.... Bless her heart.... I have another heifer due anytime and if possible I will try to graft this calf over on her since she will have too much milk for one, she is a jersey cross.... but sweet 801 just looked at me like, you promised me a break......... and let it nurse. I really want to dry her up but she will feed it for a bit til I can maybe get it on the other one....don't have a "due date" since she was bull bred but she can't go much longer with her udder just getting more developed every day....</p><p>Some of them, like my 801 (sweet good hearted cow) are a treasure.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1672772, member: 25884"] Just to steal a little slice of your thread..... I have a jer/hol nurse cow that raised 5 last year. Then she had 3 on her this lactation since I was dealing with the ankle replacement & in the walking boot for a long time. We shipped calves Friday, including her 3; she had gotten thinner than I liked and I said she was getting a break regardless of how far along bred she is.... So on Saturday, my son had a new 1st calf heifer.... 1 of 12 he bought a week ago..... calve and prolapsed. I found her and told him so he called the vet and they got it put back in but she didn't look good. I was at a farm testing at this point. He found the calf which I never saw since I didn't have alot of time before going to work. They got the calf to suck colostrum off the cow while she was laying down, then she got up and it sucked some more he said. He went to check on her last night and she died.... so they brought the calf to the barn. He asked if I thought the nurse cow might take it... I said try her. He gave her some grain and the calf did go on her. Then he locked the calf in the alley and let the cow back out. This morning I went back up and got her in, grained her and put the calf in there. She moved around a bit, kept looking at me, smelling the calf, but let it go on her and it nursed good. She picked up her foot once and half heartedly kicked/pushed it away.... Bless her heart.... I have another heifer due anytime and if possible I will try to graft this calf over on her since she will have too much milk for one, she is a jersey cross.... but sweet 801 just looked at me like, you promised me a break......... and let it nurse. I really want to dry her up but she will feed it for a bit til I can maybe get it on the other one....don't have a "due date" since she was bull bred but she can't go much longer with her udder just getting more developed every day.... Some of them, like my 801 (sweet good hearted cow) are a treasure..... [/QUOTE]
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