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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1658424" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I had a heifer in the lot, to calve on a Friday with a dead heifer calf. I got a calf to graft on her since she was trying so hard to get that dead calf to get up to suck....... Took the grafted calf and let it nurse with no problem Sat. Sunday morning was fidgety and by Sunday eve NOTHING would convince her to let it nurse. So I bottle fed it and put it in the pen next to her. Monday came out to the barn and she had a brand new LIVE HEIFER calf she had just delivered and the afterbirth still hanging. The live calf and the dead calf had identical little white spots in the forehead....about 10 hairs..... If she hadn't been in the pen and no one else in there with her, I would not have believed it. Vet said he had seen 3 or 4 cases of that over the years, but usually the first was live and the 2nd was dead.... and he said that he had had one dairy farmer that had a cow give birth to 2 calves about 12-13 days apart.... both were live calves.... it was a farm he went to regularly and they called him when it happened as they were dumb founded.... and the calves were totally different colored one mostly white, one mostly black, and one a bull and one a heifer, so not identical......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1658424, member: 25884"] I had a heifer in the lot, to calve on a Friday with a dead heifer calf. I got a calf to graft on her since she was trying so hard to get that dead calf to get up to suck....... Took the grafted calf and let it nurse with no problem Sat. Sunday morning was fidgety and by Sunday eve NOTHING would convince her to let it nurse. So I bottle fed it and put it in the pen next to her. Monday came out to the barn and she had a brand new LIVE HEIFER calf she had just delivered and the afterbirth still hanging. The live calf and the dead calf had identical little white spots in the forehead....about 10 hairs..... If she hadn't been in the pen and no one else in there with her, I would not have believed it. Vet said he had seen 3 or 4 cases of that over the years, but usually the first was live and the 2nd was dead.... and he said that he had had one dairy farmer that had a cow give birth to 2 calves about 12-13 days apart.... both were live calves.... it was a farm he went to regularly and they called him when it happened as they were dumb founded.... and the calves were totally different colored one mostly white, one mostly black, and one a bull and one a heifer, so not identical...... [/QUOTE]
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