Can remember how it happened. The heifer, "new moma" in the big box stall. Had just finished droping her calf. There she is licking and making new moma moos to her calf. About five minutes her eyes roll up into her head and down she goes like a ton of bricks. My dad goes " oh s.. " and runs to the milk house cabinet. He grabbed the coke bottle, hose and half a dozen calcium tablets from a jar. Crushed them really quick and mixed it up in the bottle with some really warm water. Ran back to the stall and found the neck vein. Plugged her in. Took maybe three, four, five minutes. Suddenly her eyeballs come back on line, she shook her ears and head. Stood right up and started back in with her new calf. You would have thought you witnessed the raising of Lazarus. Humans can also have it happen. Very rare because most humans are never going to put out 2 or 3 gallons of milk at any feeding. Fresh cows go bonkers with milk production. When you see them squirting all over the place and it is all high power baby calf milk.
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