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NC Kansas | had 2 heifers do this on the same day this year. one was a shorthorn that started to lick her calf off then another excited about to calve angus heifer kinda went through her area. We got them separated but the shorthorn started butting hers around not letting it suck. Angus heifer proceeded to calve about an hour later in a small calving shed pen and wouldn't let her calf get off the ground. Just kept knocking him down and finally pushed him under the gate out of her pen. Anyway, one session in the chute with each letting the calf suck cured it and they were fine.
I blame a few things...
1. heifers are dumb sometimes
2. full moon
3. low pressure was bringing in the first of many blizzard like snows we've had this year at this exact point in the day
4. heifers are dumb sometimes
have only previously had a heifer give us trouble maybe 1 in 5 years?? So to have 2 do it in the same day at the same time was weird, but there was no doubt they weren't related genetically or even bred the same. One was AI'd the other bull bred.
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Angus heifers “beating” calf instinct
