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That's dairy calves that are pulled, not all calves!
And I wouldn't say it's common for cows to reject or abondon their calves. Atleast not in my experience. In fact I can only remember one time one that I might consider abandoned (and I think the calf had something wrong w/ it).
Now we've always been fairly small, most we've had was probably around 50 (and by we I'm refering to my family), currently my dad has somewhere around 30, and my mom only has 4.
My current cow and calf are/were both bottle babies and neither were rejected, there are lots of things that might cause a beef calf to be orphaned.
And I wouldn't say it's common for cows to reject or abondon their calves. Atleast not in my experience. In fact I can only remember one time one that I might consider abandoned (and I think the calf had something wrong w/ it).
Now we've always been fairly small, most we've had was probably around 50 (and by we I'm refering to my family), currently my dad has somewhere around 30, and my mom only has 4.
My current cow and calf are/were both bottle babies and neither were rejected, there are lots of things that might cause a beef calf to be orphaned.