fermerboy
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- Banffshire
How does everyone else adopt a calf on to a suckler cow?
I generally skin the dead one, skin on to the proposed adoptee,and let cow sniff the backend of the calf through a barrier or gate for a 10-15mins, set it on for a suck , job done.
Any time I've tried without skinning, it's been a time consuming, kicking, struggle, for a good few days.
Reason I ask is I've lost one that's has had really bad joint ill and is basically full of not nice stuff and was looking for a way of avoiding skinning it.
I generally skin the dead one, skin on to the proposed adoptee,and let cow sniff the backend of the calf through a barrier or gate for a 10-15mins, set it on for a suck , job done.
Any time I've tried without skinning, it's been a time consuming, kicking, struggle, for a good few days.
Reason I ask is I've lost one that's has had really bad joint ill and is basically full of not nice stuff and was looking for a way of avoiding skinning it.