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Is it too soon to wean a dairy calf from it's mother at 8 weeks?
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∙ 10y ago
Yes. Naturally, calves stay on their mothers for a lot longer, typically anywhere between 6 to 8 months long. If this is a dairy cow (bit if a huge hint when you mention about a dairy calf) you are working with, having the calf on the cow and still milking her out won't affect her milk production. Dairy cows have been genetically selected and bred over many years to produce at least four times the volume of milk that a beef cow would produce. That means that there is still plenty of milk left over for you to use for yourself and your family. Even with beef calves, naturally they only take a little milk from their dams at a time many times during the day, never consuming all four quarters in one suckling. So even after you take a bit of milk from all for quarters from your family milk cow, she will still produce sufficient milk for her calf--as long as you remember to not strip out all the milk from each quarter.
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You will be able to know after 2 weeks.
After a cow calves should you milk her or not?
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How long after birth can a calf see?
Right after birth, or as soon as the calf is out of the birth canal.
What is a drop calf?
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Does any cow survive if her calf is dead in her womb?
A cow can survive if her calf is dead in her womb. But if that calf is not expelled or pulled out soon, she could die as well.
What does a person do for a new born calf?
Get it in a warm dry place after it has been born and after you have ensured the calf is alive. Then bottle feed it with colostrum for the first 24 to 36 hours, then slowly wean it of colostrum to replace it with milk replacer. Do this only if the newborn calf is an orphan and you cannot find a serrogate mother to accept it.
How soon can a newborn calf nurse?
Within a few minutes to an hour or two after birth. The sooner a calf nurses, the better.
What is young one of dolphin called?
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Is it cruel to separate a cow from it's calf?
That's your opinion, and it depends on whether you are referring to dairy production, weaning as separating like that in beef herds, or another reason that requires a calf to be separated from its dam or vice versa. As far as dairy production is concerned, it may seem cruel to separate a calf from a cow that has just bonded with it, like after a day or two, but it's necessary because it's not a great idea nor is it productive to have a whole pile of calves loose in the barn or having to contend with being separated from their mothers for a short time twice a day when their mothers are being milked. The cows only bawl for their calves for a few days, then soon forget them and settle down to regular routine. It is not cruel to separate a cow from it's calf during a time when calves MUST be weaned from their dams, especially when they don't need their mother's milk anymore. You may consider it cruel if the weaning process involves separating cow and calf into separate pastures where they can't hear, see or smell each other, but not if they are only separated by a fence or the Eezy-Wean nose ring is used for a short period before the calves are actually separated from their dams. It is not cruel if you have to separate a cow from her calf if the cow cannot care for that calf for whatever reason: either she died from a complications, cannot get up after a difficult delivery, doesn't have enough milk to feed her calf and the calf needs to be orphaned onto another cow, the cow won't accept her calf despite everything a producer tries to do and has to bottle-feed or put the calf on a nurse cow, the calf has to be kept in a protected area because it is sick or injured or otherwise too weak to be able to keep up and suckle from its mother, etc. in these cases, mom and calf have to be separated, and, if and when necessary reunited only briefly to feed the calf its mother's milk.
