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Who takes care of the calf?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Calves are cared for primarily by their mothers or dams being the cows. This is evident in a beef cattle herd, less so in a dairy herd, at least those in North America. North American dairy farms hire people to care for the dairy calves, leaving the cows free to be able to be milked twice a day.

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