Sometimes a calf loses its mother or has a mother that won’t accept it or can’t feed it. Many ranchers have raised calves on bottles. It might be an orphan or a twin—and the mother doesn’t have enough ...

On a cow-calf operation, the goal is always to have a calf be raised by its birth mother until weaning, but in a situation when the cow won’t claim the calf as its own or she dies in calving, ...

My Friesian cross has delivered a good-looking and healthy calf. Since I am now retired, I want to focus on dairy farming. This is the first calf in my farm, kindly educate me on how best to take care ...

Anyone who raises cattle for a long time eventually sees many unusual situations. About 55 years ago, one of our rancher friends knew we were feeding an orphan calf--with milk from our milk cow--and ...