Jul 8, 2011 · If you are grafting foreign calves onto a cow, you will probably have to get her in the stanchion night and morning until she gets used to the calves nursing. We sometimes have to restrain a cow (depends on the cow), at first. After a couple of weeks the cows usually give up and let the calves nurse without kicking.

Aug 31, 2009 · After repeated attempts the calf should start to nurse some. Put some of the cows milk on the calf's head and ears and its rear in order to get the calf to smell like the nurse cow. Depending on how the calf nurses you may have to milk out the nurse cow some for a few days to give her some relief depending on how much milk she has.

May 26, 2020 · Nope. She should be cycling her heats each 21 days. Like a period cycle. You can breed her again when you want a calf. Either with a bull or artificial insemination. During a cows heat cycle she will become more vocal, very very vocal if shes like my jersey. youll see her mounting and being mounted if you have others. When cow will stand still and be mounted shes said to be in standing heat ...

Apr 8, 2008 · In the long run you need to make that cow pay for herself. You could also milk the cow plus feed the babies (bottle with her milk) if you needed the milk, or just leave them on her 24/7 or let her nurse them 2x per day. There is many ways to go with having a nurse cow and you may have to go through several cows before you find the right one.

Sep 17, 2009 · We have rodeo cattle but are wanting to venture out and get in to something a little different, we are trying to trade for a milk cow (Holstein), she is a 2 year old first time heifer and she just had her first calf august 08, 2009. She is in a dairy and is giving about 30 pounds of milk a day and we are planning on getting her and trying to …

Feb 7, 2014 · We picked up a Charlais heifer calf that was an orphan because the person that had it did not have a lot of time to work with her and she was not taking the bottle. I got her at 7 days old. Mom died first day, and she sucked on a nurse cow for days 2 …

Apr 29, 2015 · I noticed him nibbling at the cow's tail, nuzzling and trying to nurse her neck, but never once latching on or even coming close. I grew pretty concerned at that point, as he was 24 hours old.The cow's udder was very large, and didn't look like it had been nursed on at all.

Aug 23, 2011 · She looks for milk, but I have yet to see her actually nurse. I ended up milking the cow some and bottle feeding her to make sure she has some in her. She does seem to have enough sucking reflex. I was amazed the cow walked in the stanchion for me with some bribery and only kicked back once when I milked her. What a good girl.

Jul 6, 2008 · Dr. Bristol's recipe calls for 2 TEASPOONS, not TABLESPOONS of baking soda, and 1 TEASPOON, not 1 TABLESPOON of lite salt. amd it's 14 oz of beef consomme. I am completely devastated that my stupidity and irresponsibility caused the death of my calf tonight. My calf was fine yesterday nursing on our Jersey nurse cow.

Jun 1, 2014 · Sounds like all is well. They should nurse soon after birth to get the colostrum. The sooner the better because their ability to absorb it lessens by the hour. When we observe a birth, the longest it has taken for the calf to get latched on and suck was 2 hours. Usually, more like 30 minutes! Some cows are more attentive mothers than others. We have some that stay close by their calf for the ...