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cow and calf to know each other and lessens mix-ups and confusion.
In very cold or windy weather a calf has trouble maintaining its body temperature. Check to make sure he has a dry, sheltered place in which to sleep. Some over protective mothers take her calf to the far side of the pasture to hide him, and he may end up in snow or mud, therefore leave the mother and calf in a smaller pen for a couple of days. If you can't get a cow to go to the pen, make a sheltered corner for her there with a windbreak and straw bedding for the calf. Put a pole across the corner so the calf can crawl under but not the mother, this way there is no risk of a mother lying on her calf.
When a calf learns about straw bedding and a windbreak in the smaller pen, he will be more apt to use a bedding area or calf house in the larger pasture when you turn the pair of them out.
In very cold or windy weather a calf has trouble maintaining its body temperature. Check to make sure he has a dry, sheltered place in which to sleep. Some over protective mothers take her calf to the far side of the pasture to hide him, and he may end up in snow or mud, therefore leave the mother and calf in a smaller pen for a couple of days. If you can't get a cow to go to the pen, make a sheltered corner for her there with a windbreak and straw bedding for the calf. Put a pole across the corner so the calf can crawl under but not the mother, this way there is no risk of a mother lying on her calf.
When a calf learns about straw bedding and a windbreak in the smaller pen, he will be more apt to use a bedding area or calf house in the larger pasture when you turn the pair of them out.