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<blockquote data-quote="Rustler9" data-source="post: 73777" data-attributes="member: 440"><p>I usually don't have any problems with our calves since they are Longhorns but I had a cow give birth to a pretty large bull calf back in January and he had trouble standing at first-we actually had him go to the vet and get tube fed. This was after we noticed that he had never gotten up after over twelve hours. Once we tubed him he was ok getting up even though his back feet were a little bent. The vet said that they would straighten up and they did. However, he had to be tube fed two days in a row and I was about to give up on him. We even milked the cow and put it in a bottle but he wouldn't nurse. I decided that I wasn't going to do anything else-he was either going to nurse on his own or he wasn't going to make it. The cow is a big beefy cow with a large udder but the calf was not interested. The calf was born on Saturday-we tubed him on Sunday and Monday, we never saw him nurse, when we tried to make him he would fight you and do everything he could to get away from the teat. Finally on Wednesday night I was feeling sorry for him and decided that I was going to milk the cow again and try the bottle again on Thursday morning-he looked ok but I saw no evidence of him nursing. On Thursday morning I went to milk the cow and he was up and nursing away. Today he is a great looking calf and doing fine. I do believe that there's something to these big calves being slow and it may be because the cow had a harder time giving birth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rustler9, post: 73777, member: 440"] I usually don't have any problems with our calves since they are Longhorns but I had a cow give birth to a pretty large bull calf back in January and he had trouble standing at first-we actually had him go to the vet and get tube fed. This was after we noticed that he had never gotten up after over twelve hours. Once we tubed him he was ok getting up even though his back feet were a little bent. The vet said that they would straighten up and they did. However, he had to be tube fed two days in a row and I was about to give up on him. We even milked the cow and put it in a bottle but he wouldn't nurse. I decided that I wasn't going to do anything else-he was either going to nurse on his own or he wasn't going to make it. The cow is a big beefy cow with a large udder but the calf was not interested. The calf was born on Saturday-we tubed him on Sunday and Monday, we never saw him nurse, when we tried to make him he would fight you and do everything he could to get away from the teat. Finally on Wednesday night I was feeling sorry for him and decided that I was going to milk the cow again and try the bottle again on Thursday morning-he looked ok but I saw no evidence of him nursing. On Thursday morning I went to milk the cow and he was up and nursing away. Today he is a great looking calf and doing fine. I do believe that there's something to these big calves being slow and it may be because the cow had a harder time giving birth. [/QUOTE]
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