Pretty cute pair even if your "thread is getting ruined" as you said…I disagree btw. How can you resist not capturing this friendship? But I have to say it seems this bottle babe is warming a few hearts - might be small but she's a smart one. This is called "ensuring survival" lol too cute
Not all is fair in love and war.
Lil Snoopy didn't make it. Perfectly fine one night. Eating her feed and alfalfa/orchard grass hay.
Next morning went to feed and dead as a hammer.
R.i.p lil Snoopy. Gonna miss that lil fart a little.
Not all is fair in love and war.
Lil Snoopy didn't make it. Perfectly fine one night. Eating her feed and alfalfa/orchard grass hay.
Next morning went to feed and dead as a hammer.
R.i.p lil Snoopy. Gonna miss that lil fart a little.
Sad but not unexpected.... she was not "right" and her time was limited... but you gave her a good end of life...I had one that was totally stunted and she got to stay here for a year, then one day was just dead. Out of a cow that made next to no milk and was a wild b$#ch.... calf would come in for creep feed but never would take a bottle so I just left her alone. Didn't weigh 300 lbs at a year... smaller than my calves on the nurse cow when I weaned them off at 12-14 weeks.
Lmao!
The heifer was 175 and she weighs 68lbs
The bull is over 90lbs. I forget.
He was much much cheaper.
I HAD another jersey cow bought.
They sold her before I could get there.
All is good today!
They both took morning bottles easily. The jersey was already bottle broke. It did not take much with the lil heifer. She was definitely hungry! Her lil tummy is so fat after this mornings bottle. I expect we may hit a wall this evening and she only takes part of a bottle. She took all but a couple ounces of her 2nd bottle (first bottle was last night)
Gotta have a couple pics right???
And a short captions...
Remember.... bottle babies will SUCK ANYTHING. I seperated em. He was trying to nurse her umbilical. She was trying to nurse his testicles.
All fat and milk drunk!
She loves her lil shelter
My big helper here...
And somewhere there was a poster asking specifically about this. I commented on that post at the time. Not all of em do this. But I don't get too worried. I keep a close eye on em. Usually gone in a day or two...
Usually it's the wet umbilical babies that do this. The bigger/older bull calf is not doing this.
Ha!!
Don't get much better than that. He's already eating feed! Someone spent some quality time working with the lil guy! I was having a hard time figuring out why he kept bawling after I fed him his bottle. Well, there ya go! I got plenty kid. You'll be off the bottle in no time at all!
