Always liked an animal that showed good mothering abilities. It is extremely frustrating when they don't. In another lifetime when I was milking cows I had an entertaining event one morning when I went to move a heifer that was ready to calve. She was tied in the row with the milk cows and when I went to move her to abox stall she came ahead, made a hard left turn and landed in the bottom of the manger managing to miss the water bowl on the way by. This is bad. By this time the calf is well on its way so I got it pulled. I moved two cows out from the nearest stalls and put the calf there for the heifer to be interested in, which she was but couldn't get up. I was in quite a quandry wondering how to sort this out. The bosses wife came along then to see why I wasn't in for breakfast yet. The farm dog came along with her and jumped over the gutter to look at this calf. That was the only time I had ever seen that dog do that. Even if the barn was empty of cows she would not ever cross that gutter but for that day. Anyway when the heifer saw that dog near her calf she was up almost as fast as she went down. The dog bailed out and I moved heifer and calf to a box stall. That heifer was an easy milker and carried on for a bunch of years with no issues. Didn't mean to hijack your thread but your story made me think of this. Hope your luck carries through with the rest of this bunch.
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