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4 year old cow rejects 3rd calf
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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1795401" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>Her calves are about herd average at weaning. She does have a good temperament, but there were issues in the past that already had her on the cull watch list. Her first calf was also born in the morning and she brought it up with her for hay that same afternoon. We usually don't see them come down to the other cows for at least a day or two. It was a good thing she did, because we noticed the udder did not look sucked and the calf was searching, but would not get the end of the teat in its mouth. The nipples were a little long, but not by much. The cow was nice enough to let us walk up and put a nipple in the calves mouth. After that the calf seemed to catch on and there were no more issues that year. </p><p></p><p>The next year she also showed up in the afternoon leading a calf that we had tagged early that morning. She brought it right down by the corral, and remembering her from the year before, I looked her over closely. I did not think the udder looked nursed again. The nipples were larger than I remembered. We put her in and put the calf on her. The calf seemed hungry, so she probably had not fed it until then. When the calf was done, we milked her down, so all four nipples looked good. </p><p></p><p>This year her nipples did not look particularly big. The calf would not have had a problem had she let it nurse right away. The nipples never did get big, because we made sure the calf sucked within an hour of birth. I suspect she may have done this every year. That was why her nipples seemed large when we helped the first two calves on them. We never saw her make any attempt to kick or push those first two calves, but maybe that was happening during their first hours after birth, and we only saw them after she mellowed out and decided to be a mom.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1795401, member: 9933"] Her calves are about herd average at weaning. She does have a good temperament, but there were issues in the past that already had her on the cull watch list. Her first calf was also born in the morning and she brought it up with her for hay that same afternoon. We usually don't see them come down to the other cows for at least a day or two. It was a good thing she did, because we noticed the udder did not look sucked and the calf was searching, but would not get the end of the teat in its mouth. The nipples were a little long, but not by much. The cow was nice enough to let us walk up and put a nipple in the calves mouth. After that the calf seemed to catch on and there were no more issues that year. The next year she also showed up in the afternoon leading a calf that we had tagged early that morning. She brought it right down by the corral, and remembering her from the year before, I looked her over closely. I did not think the udder looked nursed again. The nipples were larger than I remembered. We put her in and put the calf on her. The calf seemed hungry, so she probably had not fed it until then. When the calf was done, we milked her down, so all four nipples looked good. This year her nipples did not look particularly big. The calf would not have had a problem had she let it nurse right away. The nipples never did get big, because we made sure the calf sucked within an hour of birth. I suspect she may have done this every year. That was why her nipples seemed large when we helped the first two calves on them. We never saw her make any attempt to kick or push those first two calves, but maybe that was happening during their first hours after birth, and we only saw them after she mellowed out and decided to be a mom. [/QUOTE]
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