New Family Member?

Sharon and I take a little different approach to animal husbandry. She is a much more nurturing type and I'm much more of a wait and see type. We have had a couple sets of twins in the past couple of weeks. The first set of twin heifers were dropped by a very experienced cow who has an udder like a milk cow. Huge udder = lots of milk. The second set of twin heifers that we had on Sunday was by a heifer who is very gentle and has a large udder but doesn't have much experience with calves yet. One of the twins has been less than active and hasn't been running to its mama for milk which isn't unusual for the first day or 2 of a calf's life. Newborn calves seem to have a built in instinct to find a nice place to lay down and soak up the sun and to stay away from hoof traffic. Because we have high tensile electric at different heights and electric string fences throughout the pasture, calves are able to go under the fences to where the cows can't go. So it's not unusual to find calves outside of the pasture in the tall grasses that surround our pastures or tucked in with our broiler pens. I'll admit that it's unusual to have a calf that seems to spend all of its time away from the cow even for the first couple of days. The two new twins are ear tag # 27 and 28. #27 is always with the cow but #28 seems to always be where we left her. So Sharon's nurturing style has won the day and we're now bottle feeding #28 goats milk. I think that this calf will cut into our goat's milk that we use for the table as it's milk requirements grow. This heifer is going to get a name - the first of our cattle to get an actual name rather than being called by a tag # or some other obvious physical attribute. I think we're about to see one of the cattle go from one of dad's calves to a new member of the family!