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A cow problem..need suggestions

DejaVu

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I have a three year cow with her second calf at side. Great disposition, nice calf. Problem is, the cow sucks the other cows from behind when their calf is nursing. How would you solve this? I can take her to the salebarn and let her become some else's problem or try to fix it myself and keep her. There is a ring with points on it I can permanently put in her nose. Are there any other suggestions? Any body else had to deal with this? I hate to sell her so she becomes a problem for another unsuspecting person, but a cow sucking another cow is more than I can deal with.javascript:emoticon(':mad:')
Mad She became up close and personal with a grill guard on a Dodge pickup yesterday. She and her calf are now separated from the herd. She was part of a group of heifers I purchased from a seed stock producer, not one I raised. What would you do?
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Sell her, would be my first suggestion. But if your bound and determined to keep her....I guess you can try the "no suck ring" in her nose. Usually when you get one like that....it's a learned habit, and she'll try it again and again.
 

PATB

Well-known member
put a bull ring in her nose. It may luck funny but it has work everytime for me. I have 2 this year that are going to be ringed 1 heifer and 1 cow with her first calf.
 

MsSage

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We put the wealing rings in their nose works pretty good. After some time the points come off but I have yet to see one with a ring still sucking.
If she is too much then cull her.
 
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