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Post by highgrit on Feb 3, 2020 6:00:09 GMT -6
We have a cow named Spooky that calved yesterday and you better not screw with her calf. Usually after a week my wife can tag the calf without any problems. Her mom jumped in the back seat of the Kubota trying to get my wife years ago, I sure didn't miss seeing her going to town. Folks need to remember to be careful around cows when their calving.
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Post by brightraven on Feb 3, 2020 6:08:41 GMT -6
My cows are extremely docile even at calving. I bring cows due to calve up to the pen just outside the facility about a week before their due date. I observe the birth of about 80 percent of my calves. Postpartum, I weigh, give them a scours bolus, and intranasal vaccine of Inforce 3. I do it with the cow standing right on the ground beside me. Don't take that to mean they don't have good maternal instincts. They do. They go nuts if one of the dogs gets close. How do I explain this? I think the years of working with them from day one. - they see me as a member of the herd. However, I had one that got nasty this last fall.  |
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Post by highgrit on Feb 3, 2020 6:37:51 GMT -6
I don't even trust my red cows during calving. So far my cows chase dogs and try to kill anything in their pasture. I've found dead dogs, geese and a coyote in the pastures that none of us killed. We were watching the geese cross a pasture heading for a different pond and the cows took off towards them. A goose has some fight in them when trying to protect their gooslings.
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