Posted by Notjustair on February 07, 2015 at 18:11:48 from (70.195.1.222):
I've never run into this in my 40 years of cattle. Here's one for the brain trust.
I had a first calf heifer deliver a calf early. It must have been close to a month early by my guess. It was smaller than any of the dogs, but got up, sucked, and had plenty of vigor. Fast forward to now (she was a November baby). She isn't growing. Moms milk has dried up (she never was a big bag heifer) but little "Olive" eats at the creep feeder and puts away the groceries. I have her and her mom in a lot with my registered bull calf and his mom. She eats just as much as the bull calf who is three times her size and six weeks younger. The calves born this week are as big as she is. She is big through the gut but those spindly legs haven't grown any. Her body processes feed normally and she gets corn and good brome from the creep feeder. I'm about to cut my losses with her and sell her as veal. I've thought about running her and mom to the sale as a pair because she looks so young. Her first ear tag stretched out her ear (cartilage wasn't hard enough I guess) so she has a skater punk stretched hole in her ear and a tag in the other. That's the only give away that she's not a young calf.
Has anyone had one that didn't grow? She looks just like a little deer - that kind of build but a larger torso. Her mother was one of my own that I kept back and none of her sisters in the herd delivered a calf like this. I'm guessing something didn't develop in her brain or pituitary gland?
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