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Yesterday, I tagged a couple calves that belonged to our home raised two year old heifers. The 2's had numbers 481 and 487 on their tags, so I put a corresponding 81 and 87 on the calf tags. These heifers had calved the evening before, so I was going to kick them into a bigger pasture. They were penned right next to each other, so I tagged them and put them out together. After I put them out, I left them just outside the gate, and went on to other things. One pair headed over the hill, and one stayed back at the gate. I happened by the pair that stayed back, and saw that #487 was with calf 81. So I pushed them up to the other mis-mated pair, and I could see that #487 only wanted calf 81, and #481 seemed to be happy with calf 81 so I brought #487 and calf 87 back and locked her up together all night. She seemed content today, but calf 81 hadn't sucked and was wandering around out in the bigger pasture.

This is when I realized the folly of my ways, and figured that I had put the wrong tag in the calves. :oops: At least today both heifers seem to want their biological calf, and not the one I thought they ought to have.

Can't fool a cow, but I can fool myself. :shock: :lol:

And here I was cussing the heck out of "those stupid two year old heifers". :D
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