Nurse Cow - Blog Posts

The boss lady leading 2 nurse cows and 6 orphans with feed! Beautiful day!

A new nurse! The sweet heart is half Holstein and half Jersey and 6 years old. It took her a day or two but she accept her first charge. These Angus have twins with some regularity so a nurse cow is a good thing! Two nurse cows with 3 'kicked off' calves so far. 012919

Our nurse cow had her calf! My sister had to chain the little one as he was a big boy and a tight fit! Elsie later accepted a twin too...one less calf to mix a bottle for morning and evening. A Jersey, Elsie is a former dairy animal and has lots of fatty milk for orphans. Raising two a year is the norm and they are most often a twin kicked off by its mom. 1/19

Beautiful milk cow in South Texas! Actually she is a nurse cow for any 'orphan' calves. Angus cattle have twins. Often! Mastitis sometimes, but rarely, will take the milk of a mama so her calf goes to Elsie, shown above. She is a pill but we love her.