Raising a Family Milk Cow Pt. 1: Bottle Feeding & Early Handling

Part 1 of Raising a Family Milk Cow series: Bottle Feeding and Early Handling *The heifer in this video, Paisley, is currently for sale. Early handling of dairy heifers is an important step in raising a calm, gentle cow. Here is what I do when I first start off my heifers. Though they are primarily dam raised, I always start them with a bottle before transitioning to one milking per day and dam raising. For more information about our small family farm, please visit: http://feldmanfamilyfarm.weebly.com/ *I'm sorry about the blowing noises in the video; I think they are from my filly sniffing the camera from the other side of the fence. :)