Oldtimer said:
CattleArmy said:
I started to post we but then decided no cause this part of we doesn't skin critters. What they do here is skin the dead calf and tie the hide on a new calf with baling twine. Sometimes they put amonia on the hide and then rub the cows nose with it.
If all else fails a leg tied up helps things out or putting her in the stantion to let the new one suck has been done too.
Yep- I do the same thing with the calfskin
--also pour some of that O-No-Mo stuff on the skin ( or in the absence of that have used salt or powdered molasses ) to cover the smell and
get the cow licking....Also putting them in a little corral with a baler twine set of hobbles on the heifer- pulled up pretty tight usually gives the calf a fair chance at sucking--and after a week or so of wearing them they usually decide its easier and more comfortable to not kick and take the calf......
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Oldtimer you better check your bottle to make sure it wasn't part of this recall

a good shot of Lysol in the cow's nose and then on the calf works good too
PRODUCT
O-NO-MORE (Formerly ORPHAN-NO-MORE) Calf Claimer Powder, packaged in 9-oz. bottles, For Animal Use Only, Recall # V-011-2007
CODE
A07
RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
Springer Magrath Co., McCook, NE, by telephone on January 11, 2007 and fax on January 12, 2007. Firm initiated recall is complete.
REASON
The bovine blood meal which was used to manufacture the finished product was cross-contaminated with prohibited bovine meat and bone meal, and the finished product is not labeled with the cautionary statement that it should not be fed to ruminants.
VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
300/9-oz. bottles
DISTRIBUTION
NE