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Have your vet show you how to give fluids. It’s saved quite a few critters at my place. Easy to do, especially if they are really down! Ivermectin on the skin will help with maggots. Make sure you scrape off all of the eggs too. Glad you found him!!

In my neck of the woods, it used to be common place to buy any breed calf to bottle raise, beef or dairy. Lots of small, family type farms, who would gladly help you out. How does anyone start? You have to start somewhere with cattle. We just want to safely start our son. Not some 6 month...

Well, we've been looking since March this year for a calf!! This is what we've found: 1. A 3 year old Black Angus cow, bred for 2007 - $1,000 (she was quite skinny for an angus) 2. 3 month old Black Angus heifer - $350 3. 2.5 month old Hereford/WhitePark - $300 (the one we...

We are looking at a 2 month hereford calf. She's on her mom, but the size of a newborn. Mom never has much milk. We ideally wanted a bottle calf (since our son will be doing this for the first time). Would you or could you bucket feed this baby milk replacer? She is really tiny, like I...

I know, I know. :lol: :) :lol: I keep thinking, why didn't I just go right up & grab that darn rope?! Honestly, this guy was a little scary!! I'm pretty short, right around 5 ft, and he would've been gut level, had he decided to plow into me. I really didn't want to find out! I just...

They loaded & unloaded him the same way: With a yell & waving their arms. We gave him time at home to unload before we approached him. Since we had to pay someone to haul, leaving him on the trailer for the night wasn't an option, although we thought that was probably the only other thing...

The funny thing is, we wanted him this young, so that he'd be tame!! Ha! Not even close. We usually get a 2-3 week calf & bottle feed. Or an older TAME steer or heifer. This is our first in between. His momma was tame enough. When she was in the barn I was able to scratch & rub her. She...

Nope, not our first steer, calf or cow!! We've had lots of experience with cows, just have never seen anything like this!! Our last hereford (pure) steer dressed at 735 lbs & was a big baby. We've had holsteins, charalois, and lots of mixes. This calf was a beefy guy, probably 300 lbs or...

Hi this is my first post & I need some help... We were to get a 2.5 month old steer calf last night. Hereford/White park. Well, we loaded him & brought him home. Proceded to "try" to take him off the trailer (2 horse slant). He charged us every time! Now, he was just taken from his momma...