They can, but only when there is an overpopulation of coyotes in an area and food is scarce. If food is very scarce, since coyotes normally eat small mammals and occasionally a deer or two, they will bring down and eat calves or other young cattle if they get the opportunity. Coydogs (cross between coyotes and the domestic dog) are worse for killing livestock, as well as packs of roaming dogs.
Yes, some lactating mothers will feed abandoned calves.
I helped grandma feed the calves.
Stockers.
Yes
They will kill only the young calves, but never the adult cows.
Not really, no. Calves should be eating plant-type feed, not insects or insect larvae.
The reason cattle produce milk in the first place is to feed calves, not to feed people. Frisian cows in the wild--if such they be--"get rid of" their milk by letting calves suckle it.
Plenty of green grass and or hay and a 12%-14% creep feed. The calves need lasalocid for good rumen development.
That's not the bull's responsibility, nor his job. His job is to get those calve's mothers bred to have calves again, not to feed the calves. The cows themselves are the ones responsible for feeding their calves via milk from their udders and teaching them what's good to eat and what isn't.
Milk, just like any other mammal.
Milk, just like any other mammal.
Coyotes are consumers, omnivores, and feed mostly on small animals and some fruit such as berries and nuts.