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Fostering calf onto cow?!?

  • 12-07-2014 9:33pm
    #1
    exercise is the antidote
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    Just wondering how hard it is to foster a calf onto a cow! Have a cow that calved that has a lots of milk and could feed another one?!?
    Anyone do it?


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  • #2
    simx
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    exercise is the antidote wrote: »
    Just wondering how hard it is to foster a calf onto a cow! Have a cow that calved that has a lots of milk and could feed another one?!?
    Anyone do it?

    Can be dependent on cow or calf or both, have had success and serious hardship at that, I usually put away cows own calf for the night with new calf, let two of them out next morning and give cow nuts in a bucket, two calves should be starving and suck the daylights out of her


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    _Brian
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    We used to do it a good bit and in general unless you have a good strong calf and fairly placid cow your in for torture, pure torture !!


  • #4
    on the river
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    Cattle see with their smell.

    The calf.needs to have the same scent as the cow .

    Keep them in a enclosed area. If the foster calf is strong enough he will be able to wear the cow down.

    Best of luck and.don't give up


  • #5
    sandydan
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    simx wrote: »
    Can be dependent on cow or calf or both, have had success and serious hardship at that, I usually put away cows own calf for the night with new calf, let two of them out next morning and give cow nuts in a bucket, two calves should be starving and suck the daylights out of her
    something similar but found it easier if 3 or 4 cows were in together and let in either cows or calves in one lot,especially in evening and poor light,odd calf usually found a teat somewhere and usually milks at least 2 of the 4 cows, a good roar now and again is useful too strictly for distraction purposes:D


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    exercise is the antidote
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    _Brian wrote: »
    We used to do it a good bit and in general unless you have a good strong calf and fairly placid cow your in for torture, pure torture !!

    Would a calf a week or two old be ok to foster?!?
    She would be a fairly strong headed cow, but is quiet!


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  • #7
    sandydan
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    exercise is the antidote wrote: »
    Would a calf a week or two old be ok to foster?!?
    She would be a fairly strong headed cow, but is quiet!

    wish you luck, but calf would need to strong, used to sucking and i certainly had little luck,if own calf with adopted one for a few hours to blend smell it helps with 2 calves on one side and cow distracted but tough. some fellas are great at it, me; no


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