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Anonymous
I live a bit further North in the Ozarks than Dun, and we have about 6" of snow on the ground today.
This late morning, around 10:30am I had a Black Cow give birth to a nice B/W hwffer. I arrived back from town to see the calf trying to get on it's front feet ant the momma licking it's head. The calf never rose it's hind Quarters. There were two other two or maybe three week old calves in the same pasture and they were bothering momma, as they were curious about what was going on. I checked a little later and mom had passed the afterbirth and was chomping at that and also watching the baby heffer and occasionally licking it's forehead. There was a Large Grey Coyotte or Wolf in the pasture too, about about the size of a good sized Golden Retreiver, and pure Grey. It was within about 10 feet of momma, and when it saw me it headed towards the woods.
About 40 min later Calf was motionless in the pasture, but momma was still standing guard. I drove out there and Picked it up, leaving momma very un-happy, but the calf, after about 10 min in my truck, started to move a bit, still too weak to hold it's head up, and fully still wet and very cold.
It's now in my bathroom, (The only heated small enclousure I have) and the calf has still not gotten up, but is holding it's head up about 70% of the time. I have towled it off, and also offered it a bottle with colostrum replacer, and it did take about one cup of that and then wanted to rest. I came in here to send off this message.
Can I safely keep it over-night in the bathroom and still have momma accept it tomorrow? I suspect it will be way too cold for it outside tonight as we are suggested to go to about 10 degrees and at 1:45pm it still is not up on it's feet.
Any other suggestions?
Eaglewerks
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This late morning, around 10:30am I had a Black Cow give birth to a nice B/W hwffer. I arrived back from town to see the calf trying to get on it's front feet ant the momma licking it's head. The calf never rose it's hind Quarters. There were two other two or maybe three week old calves in the same pasture and they were bothering momma, as they were curious about what was going on. I checked a little later and mom had passed the afterbirth and was chomping at that and also watching the baby heffer and occasionally licking it's forehead. There was a Large Grey Coyotte or Wolf in the pasture too, about about the size of a good sized Golden Retreiver, and pure Grey. It was within about 10 feet of momma, and when it saw me it headed towards the woods.
About 40 min later Calf was motionless in the pasture, but momma was still standing guard. I drove out there and Picked it up, leaving momma very un-happy, but the calf, after about 10 min in my truck, started to move a bit, still too weak to hold it's head up, and fully still wet and very cold.
It's now in my bathroom, (The only heated small enclousure I have) and the calf has still not gotten up, but is holding it's head up about 70% of the time. I have towled it off, and also offered it a bottle with colostrum replacer, and it did take about one cup of that and then wanted to rest. I came in here to send off this message.
Can I safely keep it over-night in the bathroom and still have momma accept it tomorrow? I suspect it will be way too cold for it outside tonight as we are suggested to go to about 10 degrees and at 1:45pm it still is not up on it's feet.
Any other suggestions?
Eaglewerks
[email protected]