My new twins!

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Tripper

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Last week one of my cows had twins. Unfortunately she rejected one of them so I've been bottle feeding the rejected one! Nothing sweeter than a hand fed anything & calves are no exception but I definitely don't wanna be bottle feeding a 300 lb calf in a couple months so I'm trying to pawn her off on one of my other nursing cows... fingers crossed!

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Did you try putting her in a head catch to suckle the calf? Sometimes that works to get them started good. My sis saves and freezes the colostrum from her milk cows to get those orphaned babies started.
 
It won't take long to teach it to drink out of a bucket. if it will suck your thumb , stick it's nose in a bucket of milk or formula while its sucking your thumb and it whill learn to drink.
 

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