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<blockquote data-quote="Riona" data-source="post: 869188" data-attributes="member: 17393"><p>Thank you everyone for your advice and expert opinion. I've been around horses for along time and feel pretty confident in their care, but cattle are a whole new ball game. I've learned now that cows <strong>can</strong> be bred while nursing a calf, so there's no need to rush and wean my calf. Also, I can skip the calf milk replacer and jump right into calf manna as a supplement. Thanks Dun.</p><p></p><p>What is the opinion on hay? The mini-horses at my boarding stable get timothy and grass hay to keep them from bloating into blimps, would that be true for mini-cows?</p><p></p><p>One last thing, if I understand correctly, the cow's owner wants to bring the bull into the cow pen for breeding. Her concern (and her other reason to wean) is the calf will get hurt by the bull. The pen is small (12 x 24), I thinking maybe a bigger pen will give the calf a fighting chance to stay out of Daddy's way. Excuse my ignorance, but this is just a thought...during breeding could the bull be aggressive enough to injury his own calf. Right now, he's in a pen about three feet from the cow pen, so he can see and smell my calf, so I'm assuming he "knowns" him and is use to him. Hopefully, he wouldn't hurt him. :???: </p><p></p><p>THANKS!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riona, post: 869188, member: 17393"] Thank you everyone for your advice and expert opinion. I've been around horses for along time and feel pretty confident in their care, but cattle are a whole new ball game. I've learned now that cows [b]can[/b] be bred while nursing a calf, so there's no need to rush and wean my calf. Also, I can skip the calf milk replacer and jump right into calf manna as a supplement. Thanks Dun. What is the opinion on hay? The mini-horses at my boarding stable get timothy and grass hay to keep them from bloating into blimps, would that be true for mini-cows? One last thing, if I understand correctly, the cow's owner wants to bring the bull into the cow pen for breeding. Her concern (and her other reason to wean) is the calf will get hurt by the bull. The pen is small (12 x 24), I thinking maybe a bigger pen will give the calf a fighting chance to stay out of Daddy's way. Excuse my ignorance, but this is just a thought...during breeding could the bull be aggressive enough to injury his own calf. Right now, he's in a pen about three feet from the cow pen, so he can see and smell my calf, so I'm assuming he "knowns" him and is use to him. Hopefully, he wouldn't hurt him. :???: THANKS! [/QUOTE]
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