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Rockridge, I agree with you. If I would have gotten the calf off an individual instead of the sale barn, much of the bacteria/germs/stress could be avoided. I plan to look into finding a source for buying from an individual come spring when I'm ready to take on more. Right not, I'm...

Today I've been giving her electrolytes at: 6am, 11am, 4pm, and I will give more at 9pm (check her, then give at 2am and start her on 3 pints milk at 7am. Does this sound reasonable? I know a 100 pound dehydrated calf needs at least 10 pounds of electrolytes to just catch up. I'm guessing her...

Ok, ok, I confess, I listened to the more experienced calf-raisers here--when I went out to check on her and saw again how bad she was scouring, I went ahead and tubed her with another 3 pints electrolyte and gave her more pepto. I'm going to do this every 4 hours, so she gets it again at 3...

I remember when we had a bottle fed heifer who did not want to take on a calf we put on her when her baby died and we also rubbed the carcass on the new calf. You definitely need some extra hands around to "help encourage" her. Every time she kicked at or tried to reject the calf, she received...

I have a black angus cow that has had a nice calf for me and suckled him just fine that has a couple extra small teats on her bag. She's an older gal with a nice temperament like the rest of my herd and is due to calf in Jan or Feb. Is it true that cows with extra teats are more prone to...

Davisbeefmaster, Thanks for the tip. She's not better, but she's not worse. Her little cellmate :lol: has the scours now (began last night), though, so I'm having a ball treating the both of them now. At least he's still sucking his bottle, hopefully that will continue. I woke up at...

Thanks for your answers, guys.

Dun, Thanks a lot for this link. It's very interesting.

Thanks, showsteer. Also, I wanted to ask how you all think these boys look so far. My oldest three will be 8 weeks old on Saturday and my youngest one (who was part of the second set I got) will be 5 weeks old this Saturday. (His buddy, Loverboy passed away last Friday morning. I was later...

Also at noon today I tubed her with about 2 quarts of bounce back (electrolyte).

I got my a-- in gear when I read the replies and gave her a shot of whiskey to warm her up. She shivered after I tubed her and it may have been due to her peeing and scouring and having a wet behind and it's also about 27 degrees and windy here today, but I have her inside. I don't think she's...

Larry, What are lactated ringers? I've never heard of them before.

Larry, What are lactated ringers? I've never heard of them before.

Got a 65 pound calf at the sale on Saturday. Saturday evening, gave her 2 quarts of the best medicated calf milk replacer you can buy plus PowerPunch (contains B-vitamins, selenium, etc.) and TSV2 vacc plus shot of penicillin. Next morning, Sunday--she sucked 2-qts milk replacer w/PowerPunch...

Your bull looks a lot like one that we have that is an F1 cross (50% purebred of one breed plus 50% purebred of another breed), I bet he's probably some type of hybrid. Nice looking, too.

Thank you all for your support. We got two more baby calves last night and I'm trying Larry Shoat's idea of giving them penicillin and the TSV2 up the nose. They seem to be doing alright, but it's only day 2. The price was right at the stock sale. We got a heifer calf about 55lbs (she's...

Guess what I saw yesterday--I couldn't believe it. I went to a sale I normally don't get to go to and this fat boy handling the baby calves was using a hotshot on them. He was too darn lazy to move them without it. The ones lying down he would just jam the hotshot into them. There was also...

Got to have a good sense of humor to make it in this business. I hope she makes it. The temperature rising is a very good thing. Got to go hunting now . . .

After assessing Loverboy's condition this morning, he went to Cow Heaven at about 7 o'clock this morning. I want to thank everyone here for their help and advice. I disagree with those here that have said hay is detrimental to calves this young. I have four others that are doing great. I...