How to Get a Cow to Take Another Calf

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Tip 1 - Tricks to grafting a calf - Grainews

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Janice Collier | permalink

Since the beginning of time a common procedure in spring calving is cross-grafting calves onto surrogate mothers. It used to be if a beef cow had lost her

For further reading: http://www.grainews.ca/2012/04/03/tricks-to-grafting-a-calf/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - Getting Cows to Accept Calves

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Olga Limon | permalink

The majority of cows accept their calves at birth without problems but on occasion cows have been known to reject their own calves. When a cow rejects her calf it is essential to try to get her to ...

For further reading: http://animals.mom.me/getting-cows-accept-calves-5730.html ^[2]

Tip 3 - Assisting the bonding process between cow and calf | TSLN.com

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Juan Nieto | permalink

After a cow gives birth, she starts sniffing and licking her newborn calf. In this bonding process, she learns to recognize her calf, and commits to caring for it
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For further reading: http://www.tsln.com/article/20120107/TSLN01/111229999 ^[3]

Tip 4 - Tips to Make a Cow Adopt an Orphaned Calf | eHow

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Alfredo Castrejon | permalink

Calves need colostrum (the natural form of milk that comes from the mother cow) for the first six to 12 hours of life. After that, whole milk or milk replacers will do; however, sometimes you will need to make a cow adopt an orphan calf. Cows are not always willing to do this, but there are several tricks you can try.

For further reading: http://www.ehow.com/way_5778839_tips-cow-adopt-orphaned-calf.html ^[4]