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A different newborn calf surprise
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<blockquote data-quote="Farminlund" data-source="post: 265012" data-attributes="member: 1132"><p>Thanks for the encouragement & info on preemies. He went downhill over nite & had extremely labored breathing this AM. Each breath seemed to take everything he had & he seemed to be suffering greatly. We tried getting some kick start into him hoping to give him energy & electrolytes to buy time for the micotil to do its thing, but after about 1 cup, he expired in our arms - sad to see the little fellow pass as I know he sure had the cards stacked against him & still he fought hard.</p><p></p><p>The only other preemie I've had to deal with was about this time in the drought of '02 (this current situation is getting to be about as bad around here as it was then). That time the intitial success was better, in that the micotil did save him, but for some reason he had a walking defect that the buyers did not want, so I got like nothing at the sale barn when I sold him at weaning. Lesson learned would be not to waste a minute getting the drugs in a preemie to get a head start on the inevetable lung problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farminlund, post: 265012, member: 1132"] Thanks for the encouragement & info on preemies. He went downhill over nite & had extremely labored breathing this AM. Each breath seemed to take everything he had & he seemed to be suffering greatly. We tried getting some kick start into him hoping to give him energy & electrolytes to buy time for the micotil to do its thing, but after about 1 cup, he expired in our arms - sad to see the little fellow pass as I know he sure had the cards stacked against him & still he fought hard. The only other preemie I've had to deal with was about this time in the drought of '02 (this current situation is getting to be about as bad around here as it was then). That time the intitial success was better, in that the micotil did save him, but for some reason he had a walking defect that the buyers did not want, so I got like nothing at the sale barn when I sold him at weaning. Lesson learned would be not to waste a minute getting the drugs in a preemie to get a head start on the inevetable lung problems. [/QUOTE]
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