Cattle and sheep together

We just got a cow and her 5 month calf, along with two sheep. We are doing rotational grazing, and have a mobile shelter that we built primarily for the sheep, though it is big enough for the cows. We integrated the animals yesterday, the cow ignores the sheep but the calf keeps bossing them around (charges them and kicks up her heels at them) and keeps kicking them out of the shelter. Do you think they will warm up to each other or should I just build a separate shelter that only the sheep can use? Thanks!

I think they will get used to each other.

One thing to be careful of is minerals.  Cows need a lot of copper in their minerals and too much copper can easily kill a sheep.  It might be useful to consult with your local feed store to find out what minerals are needed for your area.

Thought I would chime in here, as we have sheep and one yearling steer calf together. As the calf has gotten older (he's basically grown up with the sheep) he sometimes tries to play with them, which can look scary, but in the end is harmless. He's probably 400 pounds now at least, and we've had our week old lambs cuddle up to him in the barn. They seem to really get along just fine. I can't say for sure if that will always be the case with sheep and cattle, or if it's just because we have a solitary calf and he grew up around cattle. It helps to have smaller shelters around that the cattle can't get into, because he does seem to monopolize our barn sometimes.

Regarding minerals - yes you have to be careful because sheep can't handle the copper that is in cattle mineral. So we have buckets out of sheep mineral, and then a cattle block on a small shelf in the barn that is too high for the sheep to reach. The calf seems to enjoy both kinds of mineral while the sheep just stick to there's.

Now our goat on the other hand is a total bully to the sheep!

a word about sheep and copper, we leave straight copper mineral out (it's blue, and cant get wet, bought it on Amazon) as per pat colbys book, natural sheep care. they don't ever take more than they need. i bet if you leave out the separate minerals they will just take what they need, both cattle and sheep. we're going to try this in about 2 weeks when our calves go out with the sheep