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CALF PROBLEM!! Won't take bottle after 3 wks!
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<blockquote data-quote="Keren" data-source="post: 416359" data-attributes="member: 3195"><p>I'm going to ask a straightforward question . . . and dont get offended.</p><p></p><p>How hard did you try to get him to take the bottle in the first place? Reason I ask is because I have had on a number of occasions, well-meaning but slightly clueless people ringing me and saying they need a lamb tubed because it wont drink from the bottle. I go out there with the tube but I always ask them to get a bottle ready. I try that, and 98% of the time they have held the bottle in front of the animal, or in its mouth, and given up.</p><p></p><p>Backhoeboogie is right, you need to stick the bottle in his mouth and hang on to him until he drinks. Even if he does suck he may just swallow. </p><p></p><p>Honestly though, sounds like this calf is not doing so well. Tubing him for three weeks, what two, three times a day? You have to pick him up, he more or less just lays there all the time? Sours from day four to 21? </p><p></p><p>Sounds like he doesnt want to live, and you are just prolonging the inevitable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keren, post: 416359, member: 3195"] I'm going to ask a straightforward question . . . and dont get offended. How hard did you try to get him to take the bottle in the first place? Reason I ask is because I have had on a number of occasions, well-meaning but slightly clueless people ringing me and saying they need a lamb tubed because it wont drink from the bottle. I go out there with the tube but I always ask them to get a bottle ready. I try that, and 98% of the time they have held the bottle in front of the animal, or in its mouth, and given up. Backhoeboogie is right, you need to stick the bottle in his mouth and hang on to him until he drinks. Even if he does suck he may just swallow. Honestly though, sounds like this calf is not doing so well. Tubing him for three weeks, what two, three times a day? You have to pick him up, he more or less just lays there all the time? Sours from day four to 21? Sounds like he doesnt want to live, and you are just prolonging the inevitable. [/QUOTE]
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