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wyatt

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how do you make a cow milk twice as much? our alias cow has two calves nursing off of her and im afraid that there just wont be enough..  :-\
 

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i woudld to the way her first calf is and i love her to death shes like a puppy lol
 

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Why are you having 2 calves nurse her Wyatt? Do you just have a robber or is it an orphan calf that needs her. I would try to sort her away from the calf if possible. JMO
 

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well its an orphan calf we are bottle feeding and we had them separated but we cut a whole in the barn so he could get creep feed but he is taking a snack when he goes out shes had enough milk but i was just wondering
 

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Are you planning on keeping the Alias heifer in close? If so the best that you can do is supplement her with feed. 1st calf heifer, some distosia, nursing 2 calves, that can be a  recipe for one that may be hard to get rebred. I would feed her fairly well until I got her rebred then you can evaluate her condition @ that point.
 

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CAB said:
Are you planning on keeping the Alias heifer in close? If so the best that you can do is supplement her with feed. 1st calf heifer, some distosia, nursing 2 calves, that can be a  recipe for one that may be hard to get rebred. I would feed her fairly well until I got her rebred then you can evaluate her condition @ that point.

Ditto
 

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im seperating them back apart today and im gona try to get somthin set up to were the other calf can get the grain
 

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Feed the cow extra grain with some type of fat supplement for extra energy. Should increase the milk. Good luck. Sounds like you gotta headache on you hands.
 
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