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3 Day Old Cow Wont Eat
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1492014" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>3 months is pushing it with all the challenges she has had. I would continue to give her at least one full strength bottle a day, not diluted. If you see her drinking water, then try to get her to eat more grain. She will come looking for her bottle, but offer her more grain instead. Say feed her either in the morning or night, keep her on a schedule and the other time when you go to see her, offer the grain fresh in a bucket. Diluting the bottle will cause her to get her water from the bottle and not push her to drink out of a bucket. If she was mine, I would put her on the once a day for another month, and the weather gets a little nicer. Even though she is wanting the grass, she is too young to get any real amount of nutrition from it so you have to make sure she is eating grain. A calf that is raised on a cow will be getting milk for at least 5-8 months as well as supplementing it with hay/grain/ and/or grass. The amount of milk is less than at 2-3 months, but still supplies a decent amount of nutrition. I keep all my bottle calves on milk for 3 months minimum. They just do better. I leave the calves on the nurse cows for at least 3-4 months and they are eating grain and hay good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1492014, member: 25884"] 3 months is pushing it with all the challenges she has had. I would continue to give her at least one full strength bottle a day, not diluted. If you see her drinking water, then try to get her to eat more grain. She will come looking for her bottle, but offer her more grain instead. Say feed her either in the morning or night, keep her on a schedule and the other time when you go to see her, offer the grain fresh in a bucket. Diluting the bottle will cause her to get her water from the bottle and not push her to drink out of a bucket. If she was mine, I would put her on the once a day for another month, and the weather gets a little nicer. Even though she is wanting the grass, she is too young to get any real amount of nutrition from it so you have to make sure she is eating grain. A calf that is raised on a cow will be getting milk for at least 5-8 months as well as supplementing it with hay/grain/ and/or grass. The amount of milk is less than at 2-3 months, but still supplies a decent amount of nutrition. I keep all my bottle calves on milk for 3 months minimum. They just do better. I leave the calves on the nurse cows for at least 3-4 months and they are eating grain and hay good. [/QUOTE]
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