We had some really bad weather the other night and spent several hours in the tornado room. There was a funnel cloud right at us but thankfully never came down.We did however have a lot of lightening. It is always a chance a cow will get struck and one did that night. We caught her calf and brought her home to the barn. We had a dairy cow that we keep for such occurrences that had just lost her calves(twins) and so we put this calf on her to nurse in the chute. The calf was hesitant at first because she knew "those" weren't her Mama's. Well, we squirted milk on her face -still hesitant- then we "primed" her with a small bottle to get the taste buds working and then.... well she latched on and that tail started winding and it was a happy site to see.Now getting a Mama cow to take a "foreigner" just isn't too easy so we rubbed down the calf wit a product called" O no more" and separated them after the nursing so the calf won't get kicked silly- but so that the mama can smell the o no mo thru a gate panel. This morning the cow was giving the "Mama moo" and the calf answered back with the little maaa. She still kicked at her when in the same pen when it tried to nurse but she took a lick of the o no more and got interested so we nursed again in the chute, did the panel thing and in a few days I think they can be a pair.- By the way , the O no more picture was also taken at the barn - just mentioning that "cause of the pristine background haha.> Bordercollie