1 Jul 2023 1:39 am
Part of milking cows, was the cows had to “freshen” every so often, I forget now how often.Nostradamus'omh » 30 Jun 2023, 7:41 am » wrote: ↑ You project so much is possible, but I have seen mothers that don't care about their offspring at all. Same as males do. They pretend when people are watching, but when nobody is around? Not so much.
My father kept a Holstein bull, and he’d turn out a cow after her pregnancy was so advanced, and in due time a calf was born. For whatever reason, a newborn calf must sickle for a few days to thrive, then it’s fed on a bottle, and sold as a replacement for a significant amount of money to the farmer. The cow goes back to being milked.
A tiny number of of those mother cows wouldn’t allow their calf to suck.
But her rejected calf could always find another cow that would nurse her.
Humans must be, much like dairy cows with one difference.
My father would cull the mothers that didn’t suckle their calves.
Humans keep right on having unwanted babies.