If you have a cow that loses her calf at birth or shortly thereafter, what do you generally do? If we have a bottle calf we always try to get her to adopt a bottle calf, or a twin. But if there isn't an extra calf around we generally just leave them be. This spring one of our Braunvieh heifers had a dead calf in the frozen tundra and we went to the sale barn and got her a new baby. We thought it would be better for her udder to have a calf on her. It took a while for her to adopt it but she ended up raising a very nice 650 pound heifer calf! What does eveyone else do?