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<blockquote data-quote="shortybreeder" data-source="post: 1101684" data-attributes="member: 21626"><p>I guess I have never heard of Baytril, or had to deal with this type of situation in my beef herd, but growing up on a dairy herd I have plenty of experience with bottles and tubes! The one thing I've heard is that you should never tube a calf more than 3 times because tubing is hard on their throats, and past 3 times it is very easy to cause permanent damage. We had a neighbor who tubed their calf morning and night for 2 weeks, then finally gave up on it and sold it to someone. The next week we had a dairy meeting and my dad talked to the vet about it, the vet said the day before he had just been on the farm who bought the calf and had to give it some drugs to try and perk it up but didn't see much hope in it. I'm not saying you have to give up on the calf after 3 tubings, I'm just saying that if he doesn't want to suck or can't get up, don't feel bad when you get to week 2 of tubing and feel like giving up on it... Things happen, and not every calf is 100% "there."</p><p>Sorry I can't be of more help... Some of the other people on here will definitely have good words of wisdom though!</p><p>Let us know how he turns out!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortybreeder, post: 1101684, member: 21626"] I guess I have never heard of Baytril, or had to deal with this type of situation in my beef herd, but growing up on a dairy herd I have plenty of experience with bottles and tubes! The one thing I've heard is that you should never tube a calf more than 3 times because tubing is hard on their throats, and past 3 times it is very easy to cause permanent damage. We had a neighbor who tubed their calf morning and night for 2 weeks, then finally gave up on it and sold it to someone. The next week we had a dairy meeting and my dad talked to the vet about it, the vet said the day before he had just been on the farm who bought the calf and had to give it some drugs to try and perk it up but didn't see much hope in it. I'm not saying you have to give up on the calf after 3 tubings, I'm just saying that if he doesn't want to suck or can't get up, don't feel bad when you get to week 2 of tubing and feel like giving up on it... Things happen, and not every calf is 100% "there." Sorry I can't be of more help... Some of the other people on here will definitely have good words of wisdom though! Let us know how he turns out! [/QUOTE]
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