Saga of a calf abandoned at birth by a heifer, practically killed by another cow and the effort involved in resolving the problem outside in the fields of an extensive pasture fed system.
You really did a great job; getting that close to a mother and new born calves is always a hair raising experience. Can be worse than having to deal with a herd bull!
Great job pairing them back up to each other! Your cows are beautiful and I thank you for raising these cows on pasture instead of boxing them up in stuffy barns.
Haiz and Tay , Yes they are very nice looking cow's, but I must say I didn't think that cow's or any animals treated babies like that? Well I knew it could be a possibility but dam I've never seen it before! But anything's possible I know human women that abandoned their kids!
Hi guys IAM from Morocco We in the village if a cow is not interested in her calf we bring a strange dog once the cow sees the dog she is frightened and then she get back her motherly instinct love for the calf and starts protecting him
Thankyou for taking the time to sort the mother and baby, I love this way of farming where the little ones are kept with their mothers, other farmers separate them after birth and its heartbreaking to watch the mothers crying for their little ones.... Thankyou
It is funny to realise that beef cows are like that, whereas the dairy cows are forced into separation with their calves. We also do the introduction of a predictor to agitate the cow in seconds the protective instinct sets in. Heifers you need to separate them from the main herd days before birth and few more after when the bond is tight.
I really love that I would really something to see know my grandfather was a dairy owner he had Jersey cows I'm 60 now but I remember growing up and my grandma didn't want any of us girls we were not supposed to go down on the ranch but I was my grandpa's Tyrant little granddaughter I go down to the barn where they were being milked and I'd be running knee deep and cow manure and my grandma would come down with a switch switch me back up to the house. Jersey milk is the best and that's the kind of dairy my grandpa had I love him so much he was a good man and even though they had the big combines when they came out with the new tractors you add look out there to my grandpa be with his old 1930 or whatever tractor with no enclosure nothing and my brother and them would be plowing the fields up with the new compound tractors with music and air conditioning but here my grandpa he would not do it he drove his old tractor it was funny to see out there with his cowboy hat on. I miss him
First calf heifers can be pretty dumb about claiming their babies. But occasionally I run to trouble with the older cows if they are very motherly and another cow calves before she does; and therefore, claims the older calf and ignores her own.
I have got to about 9 minutes and l am thinking, surely she will be producing milk and it will be painful if not milked. I guess if she is beef cattle milking is not the usual way of doing things, but surely that would put her in mind of her calf? I will keep watching. Good result.
Lincoln Reds. There was a dairy and beef strain to the breed. When numbers got low in the 70s they were amalgamated hence the breed now produces cows with excellent beef qualities and plenty of milk - twins no problem. All from a grass fed only system.
Yes. Whilst I didn't actually include a clip of the calf suckling Gabbi, there was a comment around 12 minutes to the fact that the calf got stuck in - Referring to taking milk. Also I would check the calf on a regular basis to make sure that it's stomach was full - and there is something coming out the backend! Nothing in nothing out. The key point you saw was the cow was concerned for the whereabouts of the calf and the calf stuck with her. Hence bonded.
Yeah, bonding is a complicated story and complicated more if two cows calve close together. Cows really need about 24 hours alone with it's calf before reconnecting with the herd. I've seen two cows both wanting to feed the same calf (somehow they know it's a better one) and both rejecting the unfortunate one. I've had a calf, you know is the right match, and try to push the mother towards it from all directions, it will go along for a distance and then wont approach any closer than 10 metres, as if there is an invisible force field around the calf. ( Though it doesn't apply here, I think sometimes in a free range situation an experienced (old) cow will decide, for self preservation, to get through a lean winter alive, that her own life is more important. If you look at the teats of the rejecting mother, you will notice that they are not swollen, while with the feeding mother they are. It is possible the rejecting mother has already exhausted her colostrum on the other calf which is actually hers, and which has been hijacked by the feeding mother.
He is helping the calf! Better yet, he's also providing an excellent teaching video on how to rejoin an abandoned calf back up to its mother! Sorry you're not intelligent enough to understand that!
Grandpa had a Buckskin horse and now at one of the times I was down at the dairy farm or everybody all the animals were the cows and pigs whatever he had you know he also had a drive-thru Dairy where you can buy his products and milk and everything down below the homestead but I was out there and he I wanted to ride that Buckskin so bad so he got me on that Buckskin and that Buckskin horse bucked me off I went down on the ground and my grandpa said you better get up you better get back on that horse and show him who's boss I have the best memories of growing up that I will treasure them the rest of my life I had so much fun was a good life and he also had a little buggy and a pony that would he would hook up for me to ride so I would take the pony and he says well watch out because she acts up so I went up the road to visit my little girlfriend down around pillow probably a good mile or more and the point decides to jump a little fence between me and the buggy so we had to go get Grandpa to come get me so he got us unhooked in the and then he poop had me ride the pony back on the buggy the little buggy and to back to the ranch and they had my grandpa through that pony on the ground and held him down he says every now and then I have to do that because she becomes onry when she wants to every 3 months and then this puts a stop to it he didn't hit her nothing but it stopped her from being mean like that. That's good memories kids today don't have that unless I live in a small town still and we have a lot I buy from owner of that grass feeds his cows so that's where I get my beef and a lot of kids don't know what it is to live that way and have fresh whole milk right from the cow not because that's her we I'd go down and feel the bat right out of the big bat things where all the milk went in and get our milk for dinner and whatever breakfast we didn't drink homogenized milk we drink milk straight from the cow
That cow who tried to kill the baby? She is so temperamental that if she were my animal I believe she would have been turned into hamburger and T-Bones.
The calf she was knocking about was not her calf. It is natural that she not allow a strange calf to nurse her and will butt and kick it away. She wasn't being "temperamental" - she was doing what her instincts told her to do.
Maryann Anderson was her first calfing experience and she was probably in a bit of shock and pain mothering in any species is daunting at first half of us would be hamburgers ...cause i didnt know what the ... i was doing when i had my first baby. And iam un predictable and irritable . Lol she can produce calf she can turn a profit worth more alive than dead...for now.
You really did a great job; getting that close to a mother and new born calves is always a hair raising experience. Can be worse than having to deal with a herd bull!
Great job pairing them back up to each other! Your cows are beautiful and I thank you for raising these cows on pasture instead of boxing them up in stuffy barns.
Haiz and Tay , Yes they are very nice looking cow's, but I must say I didn't think that cow's or any animals treated babies like that? Well I knew it could be a possibility but dam I've never seen it before! But anything's possible I know human women that abandoned their kids!
Theres a video of an elephant herd trying to drown a newborn in a water hole on TH-cam too. Its a mystery..!
I think you did a great job and saved the cafes life. Thanks for sharing.
Yes Tara. Once a calf starts sucking a cow - the bond rapidly builds.
Great video. Thank you for getting the calf back with it's Mother after all.
Enjoyed the video. Dave you did a great job in getting the calf to it's mother. Raising cattle is not an easy job as they say. Thank you for sharing.
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Hi guys IAM from Morocco
We in the village if a cow is not interested in her calf we bring a strange dog once the cow sees the dog she is frightened and then she get back her motherly instinct love for the calf and starts protecting him
Interesting one Hamid - thanks - might try it if it happens again.
Dave Stanley did she finally take to her calf
That is so cool. Super smart of you guys.
Thankyou for taking the time to sort the mother and baby, I love this way of farming where the little ones are kept with their mothers, other farmers separate them after birth and its heartbreaking to watch the mothers crying for their little ones.... Thankyou
It is funny to realise that beef cows are like that, whereas the dairy cows are forced into separation with their calves. We also do the introduction of a predictor to agitate the cow in seconds the protective instinct sets in. Heifers you need to separate them from the main herd days before birth and few more after when the bond is tight.
I really love that I would really something to see know my grandfather was a dairy owner he had Jersey cows I'm 60 now but I remember growing up and my grandma didn't want any of us girls we were not supposed to go down on the ranch but I was my grandpa's Tyrant little granddaughter I go down to the barn where they were being milked and I'd be running knee deep and cow manure and my grandma would come down with a switch switch me back up to the house. Jersey milk is the best and that's the kind of dairy my grandpa had I love him so much he was a good man and even though they had the big combines when they came out with the new tractors you add look out there to my grandpa be with his old 1930 or whatever tractor with no enclosure nothing and my brother and them would be plowing the fields up with the new compound tractors with music and air conditioning but here my grandpa he would not do it he drove his old tractor it was funny to see out there with his cowboy hat on. I miss him
First calf heifers can be pretty dumb about claiming their babies. But occasionally I run to trouble with the older cows if they are very motherly and another cow calves before she does; and therefore, claims the older calf and ignores her own.
I have got to about 9 minutes and l am thinking, surely she will be producing milk and it will be painful if not milked. I guess if she is beef cattle milking is not the usual way of doing things, but surely that would put her in mind of her calf? I will keep watching. Good result.
Wonderful!
Post pardon cow depression?
You got it Hamid!
I wish my calves were as hardy as yours
The older cow seems to have very good dairy characteristics. What breed are these cattle? J
Lincoln Reds. There was a dairy and beef strain to the breed. When numbers got low in the 70s they were amalgamated hence the breed now produces cows with excellent beef qualities and plenty of milk - twins no problem. All from a grass fed only system.
Nice herd.
So did the mother take it back finally ??
Tara LaGrow
Did you watch to the end?
Yes but was hard to tell.
Tara LaGrow, I agree. Didn't get to see the calf nursing, it was rather confusing.
Yes. Whilst I didn't actually include a clip of the calf suckling Gabbi, there was a comment around 12 minutes to the fact that the calf got stuck in - Referring to taking milk. Also I would check the calf on a regular basis to make sure that it's stomach was full - and there is something coming out the backend! Nothing in nothing out. The key point you saw was the cow was concerned for the whereabouts of the calf and the calf stuck with her. Hence bonded.
Nice farmer!
Yeah, bonding is a complicated story and complicated more if two cows calve close together. Cows really need about 24 hours alone with it's calf before reconnecting with the herd. I've seen two cows both wanting to feed the same calf (somehow they know it's a better one) and both rejecting the unfortunate one. I've had a calf, you know is the right match, and try to push the mother towards it from all directions, it will go along for a distance and then wont approach any closer than 10 metres, as if there is an invisible force field around the calf. ( Though it doesn't apply here, I think sometimes in a free range situation an experienced (old) cow will decide, for self preservation, to get through a lean winter alive, that her own life is more important. If you look at the teats of the rejecting mother, you will notice that they are not swollen, while with the feeding mother they are. It is possible the rejecting mother has already exhausted her colostrum on the other calf which is actually hers, and which has been hijacked by the feeding mother.
Lovely Animals
how many do you own?
Clyde. 25 - 8 breeding cows/heifers. Pedigree Lincoln Red - grass fed only. Dave
put the camera down and help that calf, simple....
Paul Perez , Shut up what in the HELL do you think he's trying to do you idiot! How dumb can you be...
He is helping the calf! Better yet, he's also providing an excellent teaching video on how to rejoin an abandoned calf back up to its mother! Sorry you're not intelligent enough to understand that!
Grandpa had a Buckskin horse and now at one of the times I was down at the dairy farm or everybody all the animals were the cows and pigs whatever he had you know he also had a drive-thru Dairy where you can buy his products and milk and everything down below the homestead but I was out there and he I wanted to ride that Buckskin so bad so he got me on that Buckskin and that Buckskin horse bucked me off I went down on the ground and my grandpa said you better get up you better get back on that horse and show him who's boss I have the best memories of growing up that I will treasure them the rest of my life I had so much fun was a good life and he also had a little buggy and a pony that would he would hook up for me to ride so I would take the pony and he says well watch out because she acts up so I went up the road to visit my little girlfriend down around pillow probably a good mile or more and the point decides to jump a little fence between me and the buggy so we had to go get Grandpa to come get me so he got us unhooked in the and then he poop had me ride the pony back on the buggy the little buggy and to back to the ranch and they had my grandpa through that pony on the ground and held him down he says every now and then I have to do that because she becomes onry when she wants to every 3 months and then this puts a stop to it he didn't hit her nothing but it stopped her from being mean like that. That's good memories kids today don't have that unless I live in a small town still and we have a lot I buy from owner of that grass feeds his cows so that's where I get my beef and a lot of kids don't know what it is to live that way and have fresh whole milk right from the cow not because that's her we I'd go down and feel the bat right out of the big bat things where all the milk went in and get our milk for dinner and whatever breakfast we didn't drink homogenized milk we drink milk straight from the cow
Is that calf blind it's eyes look funny
Terry Blackwell it's because he or she was just born
That cow who tried to kill the baby? She is so temperamental that if she were my animal I believe she would have been turned into hamburger and T-Bones.
The calf she was knocking about was not her calf. It is natural that she not allow a strange calf to nurse her and will butt and kick it away.
She wasn't being "temperamental" - she was doing what her instincts told her to do.
Maryann Anderson was her first calfing experience and she was probably in a bit of shock and pain mothering in any species is daunting at first half of us would be hamburgers ...cause i didnt know what the ... i was doing when i had my first baby. And iam un predictable and irritable . Lol she can produce calf she can turn a profit worth more alive than dead...for now.
Go Vegan!
Veganazi! >:-P
Vegans are low testosterone soy boys who act more like women than men... no ty!!!
What's the old joke about "vegan" being an old Indian term for "bad hunter"? :-D