Recent content by janikings

great advice appreciated. How do you feel about her being the only cow at the house away from the heard? All she does is stay secluded down by the pond. She does let us come up to her but she stays away from the barn and feed unless she wants to eat. We didn't know if returing her to the...

Great news I wanted to share. After being down for 5 weeks she is now walking again. We gave her all kinds of suplements CMPK, drencher with vit A,D,E vit B shots, calf manna, anything we could get down her, but the main thing was getting rid of the Capoli worm with Safeguard 10% and time to...

Me also I have heard if it is a large cow they will get nerve damage but this one is small 250 lbs. Getting stronger every day may stand by this weekend keeping fingers crossed!

Thanks for the replies so far. She does seem to be getting stronger I ordered CMPK from Jeffers and that does seem to be helping. She is trying to stand now with a little help and getting stronger by fighting back a little. She is now chewing her cud we drag her out of the stall to eat grass...

I have this calf that was given to me TODAY because the person that was caring for it got wore out. What I know-- 7 months old was taken to the sale because of being a skinny calf that would not gain weight. The sale said it was not big enough to take it back home (guess there is a minimum...