Yep,it's a real crap shoot. I had a first calf heifer and a second calf cow both loose their calves withing a day of each other a few years ago. They were both misserable and bawling,so I went to the sale barn and bought a couple of holstein bull calves. I penned the 4 of them up together. Ended up putting the cows in the chute and getting the calves to suck. I bottle fed them too to make sure they were getting enough.I left them penned for a week,then turned them out with the rest and kept bottle feeding them for another week. They did finally raise them alright. Another time,I had a hereford loose one. Had a holstein born about the same time to a dairy cow. I put the afterbirth from the hereford calf on the holstein calf and put them together. She was pretty reluctant,but took it finally and raised it. Oddest one was two cows calving at the same time right near each other. The one jumped right up and went straight to the other ones calf and started licking it. She wouldn't go back to her own. They both claimed the same calf and both fed it. I had to raise the other one on a bottle. The last case I guess,I had a holstein that I kept when I sold the dairy cattle. She would feed ANYTHING. I'd seen her feeding as many as 5 different calves on any given day. Needless to say,she got awful thin and had to go down the road.
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