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<blockquote data-quote="randiliana" data-source="post: 495097" data-attributes="member: 2308"><p>Could be that she just ran out of energy. If she is about 8 or so months along, the calf is putting a large drain on her, as it is growing so fast. And older cows sometimes just don't have the ability to do well on poor roughage as young cows do, or their teeth are gone and they just can't chew their food well enough. Some grain may help her in this case.</p><p></p><p>We had a cow with a set of twins in her last year that went down for that reason. The calves were taking more out of her than she had to give, and in the end she went down. We babied her for a while, until we figured she was far enough along to induce (had a breeding date on her) and then we induced her. She had 2 80+ lb bull calves. Both healthy, and once they were out, she got up and took care of them. Raised one to 650 lbs.</p><p></p><p>Or, as someone else mentioned, she may have lain down wrong, got her feet too high above her and couldn't get up. In that case, just keep helping her up, and she will probably be OK in a few days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="randiliana, post: 495097, member: 2308"] Could be that she just ran out of energy. If she is about 8 or so months along, the calf is putting a large drain on her, as it is growing so fast. And older cows sometimes just don't have the ability to do well on poor roughage as young cows do, or their teeth are gone and they just can't chew their food well enough. Some grain may help her in this case. We had a cow with a set of twins in her last year that went down for that reason. The calves were taking more out of her than she had to give, and in the end she went down. We babied her for a while, until we figured she was far enough along to induce (had a breeding date on her) and then we induced her. She had 2 80+ lb bull calves. Both healthy, and once they were out, she got up and took care of them. Raised one to 650 lbs. Or, as someone else mentioned, she may have lain down wrong, got her feet too high above her and couldn't get up. In that case, just keep helping her up, and she will probably be OK in a few days. [/QUOTE]
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