i would not be surprised if that heifer was infected with BVD at some point while she was pregnant.
Sometimes the calf dies just before or after birth, others become carriers and some are unthrifty like yours and never amount to nothing no matter what you try.
It could also be that the heifer actually just kind of aborted for some reason but the stupid calf lived.
I had one like out of a heifer that was born way early and was about the seize of a lamb and the hooves were still soft, it also had no suck reflex and could not stand on its own.
My wife fed it with a stomach tube for two months before it finally took the bottle and got up by itself and it grew like a weed from then on.
We sold it that fall with the rest of the calves.
I would get rid of both heifer and calf and chalk it up to experience
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