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bottle feeding 2 or 3 week old calf
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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 856799" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>Check that the milk is running easily out of the teat when squeezed.</p><p>After 24 hours she should be hungry and less stressed, so she should drink now. A search of some of the sticky threads will find plenty of descriptions, but the basic procedure is like this - catch the calf, wrap your legs round its neck so you have full control of the head and squirt a little milk from the teat into her mouth. Insert teat, clamp her mouth shut round it with the hand not holding the bottle and squeeze her mouth a couple of times to mimick sucking.</p><p>She may start sucking on her own immediately, she may not. Take a breather while still holding the calf if she doesn't, then repeat the procedure. If you do this three times and she's still not sucking willingly then she's not hungry, or she's weak/sick or she's very stubborn. Or the milk's too hot or too different. Leave her alone and try again in a few hours. She'll survive a while on the water.</p><p>Memories of a loving cow with an udder of warm sweet milk can interfere rather with a calf's desire to suck on a rubber-teated bottle full of milk replacer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 856799, member: 9267"] Check that the milk is running easily out of the teat when squeezed. After 24 hours she should be hungry and less stressed, so she should drink now. A search of some of the sticky threads will find plenty of descriptions, but the basic procedure is like this - catch the calf, wrap your legs round its neck so you have full control of the head and squirt a little milk from the teat into her mouth. Insert teat, clamp her mouth shut round it with the hand not holding the bottle and squeeze her mouth a couple of times to mimick sucking. She may start sucking on her own immediately, she may not. Take a breather while still holding the calf if she doesn't, then repeat the procedure. If you do this three times and she's still not sucking willingly then she's not hungry, or she's weak/sick or she's very stubborn. Or the milk's too hot or too different. Leave her alone and try again in a few hours. She'll survive a while on the water. Memories of a loving cow with an udder of warm sweet milk can interfere rather with a calf's desire to suck on a rubber-teated bottle full of milk replacer. [/QUOTE]
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