Posted by rrlund on May 26, 2011 at 07:29:43 from (207.241.137.116):
I've got a calf here that was born Easter evening. The next morning,the cow didn't look like she'd been sucked,so I mixed up some powdered colostrum and bottle fed him. He sucked it right down. The rest of that week,I went out and TRIED to bottle feed him,but he wouldn't take it. The cow still didn't look like he'd sucked,but I figured he must be,so I left him alone the next weekend. I had seen him sucking up water out of puddles and eating grass that first week,leading me to believe even more that he wasn't sucking the cow. Anyway,after that first weekend that I left him alone,he REALLY went down hill and we had to have the vet out to rehydrate him with an IV.We put him in a pen in the barn with another calf that had been abandoned. By Friday morning that week,the wife FINALLY had him sucking a bottle,so we went up to the cabin for Mothers Day weekend. My son said he sucked that night,then wouldn't the next morning,so he tubed him all weekend. All the next week,she just held the bottle up and let it run in his mouth and he swallowed it,but he was aspirating it and went down hill again. I started tubing him twice a day and brought him around. He'll drink water out of the tub,eats hay and grain,acts pretty frisky,but he won't even drink milk replacer out of a bucket! We keep trying twice a day,but no luck. He's getting old enough and is in good enough health that I'm not too scared of him dying on me,but he's gonna end up being the only calf in history to ever be weaned without ever having sucked enough to keep a bird alive.
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