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<blockquote data-quote="talltimber" data-source="post: 1283778" data-attributes="member: 22236"><p>Black calf. </p><p></p><p>We've been cool for a little while here now. Sometime week before last it's been in the seventies/eighties. </p><p></p><p>I've seen him quite often. Not as often as I like, but I make it a point to find all of them and see that they are alive and doing ok (head up when I get close, and not skinny from a no milk condition when I can). I've got a hot wire around a lot of the pasture that leaves a grass edge between it and the woods that those little ones like to get in to lay down. Sometimes it takes a good while to find one, and sometimes don't, if the cow won't even move that way or look. I lay eyes on all on them at least once a day, but if he's laying down I may just drive on by and not make him get up, if his head is up and paying attention. That practice changed today. </p><p></p><p>Momma cleaned him up, at least it looked like she did. He was dry. He's a week old today, so he's been sucking and up and moving a while now. That's what is so odd to me that with the cool weather, and he's as old as he is. He has been staying outside the hot wire a lot, more times than not. Maybe he stayed out so much that Momma couldn't keep him licked properly. Idk.</p><p></p><p>He took about a third of a bottle tonight. Didn't look like he had sucked. He doesn't show a lot of interest after just a little milk. I've got his spots covered in the ointment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="talltimber, post: 1283778, member: 22236"] Black calf. We've been cool for a little while here now. Sometime week before last it's been in the seventies/eighties. I've seen him quite often. Not as often as I like, but I make it a point to find all of them and see that they are alive and doing ok (head up when I get close, and not skinny from a no milk condition when I can). I've got a hot wire around a lot of the pasture that leaves a grass edge between it and the woods that those little ones like to get in to lay down. Sometimes it takes a good while to find one, and sometimes don't, if the cow won't even move that way or look. I lay eyes on all on them at least once a day, but if he's laying down I may just drive on by and not make him get up, if his head is up and paying attention. That practice changed today. Momma cleaned him up, at least it looked like she did. He was dry. He's a week old today, so he's been sucking and up and moving a while now. That's what is so odd to me that with the cool weather, and he's as old as he is. He has been staying outside the hot wire a lot, more times than not. Maybe he stayed out so much that Momma couldn't keep him licked properly. Idk. He took about a third of a bottle tonight. Didn't look like he had sucked. He doesn't show a lot of interest after just a little milk. I've got his spots covered in the ointment. [/QUOTE]
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