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dark, thick colostrum?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1002680" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Chris, </p><p>That's not normal - colostrum should be fairly thick and yellow - not like chocolate pudding.</p><p>Had a similar deal a couple of years back - 1st calf heifer, fairly hard hand-pull. Little fellow slow to get up, but the heifer took to him well. After a couple of hours when he wasn't up yet, we put her in the chute to milk her out - thick, brown colostrum- and not much of it, at that. So...we thawed out some we had frozen back and tubed him. May have given a second dose 6 hrs or so later - I don't remember. Calf was up & nursing the next morning, and she came into her milk just fine, did a good job with the calf. No issues next time out of the gate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1002680, member: 12607"] Chris, That's not normal - colostrum should be fairly thick and yellow - not like chocolate pudding. Had a similar deal a couple of years back - 1st calf heifer, fairly hard hand-pull. Little fellow slow to get up, but the heifer took to him well. After a couple of hours when he wasn't up yet, we put her in the chute to milk her out - thick, brown colostrum- and not much of it, at that. So...we thawed out some we had frozen back and tubed him. May have given a second dose 6 hrs or so later - I don't remember. Calf was up & nursing the next morning, and she came into her milk just fine, did a good job with the calf. No issues next time out of the gate. [/QUOTE]
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