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Kansas | I'm confused if your dealing with a heifer or a cow. It was mentioned above, Heifers don't know any better. Your having to teach a newbie the ropes. A cow on the other hand, some are just plain knotheads and will eventually get to a point they do give up and let the calf suck but they will not look for the calf or hunt it up. That calf will have to be a go getter to survive on that cow.
Another trick I have promoted with great personal success before is pancake syrup.
Water it down so you can spread it easier. Smear it all over the calf. Especially in places that the cow will usually clean and lick on such as the rectum, navel, face. Then smear it all over the cows nose, face, shove it down her mouth. So all she smells and tastes is that syrup.
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Getting a cow to claim an orphan calf
