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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1831363" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I have a group of heifers that calve pretty close together...every year.... we raise them together and they stay in a group to calve out and then they might get split up into different groups as they get a little older for various reasons... but have had several of them "co-mother" calves and let more than one nurse them... so your other hereford allowing them to nurse also is probably not a bad thing as they will all get a little more to eat this way and neither cow will ever get mastitis that way either...</p><p>The only down side is that once you wean them... you cannot let the calves go back with the cows when they have new calves... it seems more often that calves that have been raised on "co-mothers" tend to also be more likely to go back to stealing off a cow after they have been long weaned and you do not want them to go back to nursing a cow that has a new baby. Mine get weaned and whoever we keep for replacements, will not see another nursing cow until after they have their own first calf. </p><p>I will calve out first calf heifers with others of the same age, and then they might get moved to another pasture with other cows. They are unlikely to try to go back to nursing "their mother" at that time, since they are all grown up and have their own baby to take care of....</p><p> </p><p> I have had 2 to go back to nursing another cow while their own baby is sucking them... nose rings didn't work and one got moved to another place and those cows did not tolerate it, she got rammed by a cow that was not tolerating it, and learned the hard way.... and she was low man on the totem pole so quit... the other would not quit and got shipped because she would try to suck any/every cow in the field... pi$$ed me off when I caught her at it, and the next time I got her in the catch pen, she left....</p><p></p><p>Have you moved the bottle calf back out there? How is that working?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1831363, member: 25884"] I have a group of heifers that calve pretty close together...every year.... we raise them together and they stay in a group to calve out and then they might get split up into different groups as they get a little older for various reasons... but have had several of them "co-mother" calves and let more than one nurse them... so your other hereford allowing them to nurse also is probably not a bad thing as they will all get a little more to eat this way and neither cow will ever get mastitis that way either... The only down side is that once you wean them... you cannot let the calves go back with the cows when they have new calves... it seems more often that calves that have been raised on "co-mothers" tend to also be more likely to go back to stealing off a cow after they have been long weaned and you do not want them to go back to nursing a cow that has a new baby. Mine get weaned and whoever we keep for replacements, will not see another nursing cow until after they have their own first calf. I will calve out first calf heifers with others of the same age, and then they might get moved to another pasture with other cows. They are unlikely to try to go back to nursing "their mother" at that time, since they are all grown up and have their own baby to take care of.... I have had 2 to go back to nursing another cow while their own baby is sucking them... nose rings didn't work and one got moved to another place and those cows did not tolerate it, she got rammed by a cow that was not tolerating it, and learned the hard way.... and she was low man on the totem pole so quit... the other would not quit and got shipped because she would try to suck any/every cow in the field... pi$$ed me off when I caught her at it, and the next time I got her in the catch pen, she left.... Have you moved the bottle calf back out there? How is that working? [/QUOTE]
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