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Iowa | Some guys have good luck doing it others dont. I have a neighbor that says if the cow wont take it in a day, it never will. He used to have a cow that he could put any calf on and she would take it plus her calf. I cannot even get my cows to take both twins. Last year I had a cow that was lackign milk and a cow that had a still born on the same day so I pulled the dead calf over the live one, put clame on it, put them in a pin and all that cow wanted was out if the pin and to kick the calf when he went to try to suck. A few years ago I had a cow that had a calf in a snow storm so it took a few days to get the calf healthy enough to suck mom, by the time he was healthy she didnt allow him to suck. She was a good cow so we kept her, since she did have a calf and later that summer she had 4 calves getting extra milk off her. | |
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Getting a cow to claim an orphan calf
