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Emaciated cow eats hay but eats one cube and stops
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<blockquote data-quote="mjnetex" data-source="post: 1462057" data-attributes="member: 13948"><p>Good news! But first, she never did produce much milk, her calf was about to starve when we "rescued" them, as she was skin and bones. And has been for the last five months. Calf is doing great and outgrowing her pot-bellied look.</p><p>I did not take to vet Monday, something told me it would do no good.</p><p>Wed. AM she was acting perky and ATE several pounds of cubes! Within a minute I found a loose bolus of some kind of small rope--quite frayed after being in her stomach for five months--tied to the remnant of a black stretchy plastic garbage bag. Their hay is clean but the family that owns the property used to use several gullies as a trash dump--I feel sure she got it there, I will check it out for further dangers as soon as I can. These cattle were well-fed (we take care of them)--I guess she just likes to browse in trash dumps.</p><p>Since Wed. she eats three or four lbs. of cubes twice a day. I guess that fills her up.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for all the good advice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mjnetex, post: 1462057, member: 13948"] Good news! But first, she never did produce much milk, her calf was about to starve when we "rescued" them, as she was skin and bones. And has been for the last five months. Calf is doing great and outgrowing her pot-bellied look. I did not take to vet Monday, something told me it would do no good. Wed. AM she was acting perky and ATE several pounds of cubes! Within a minute I found a loose bolus of some kind of small rope--quite frayed after being in her stomach for five months--tied to the remnant of a black stretchy plastic garbage bag. Their hay is clean but the family that owns the property used to use several gullies as a trash dump--I feel sure she got it there, I will check it out for further dangers as soon as I can. These cattle were well-fed (we take care of them)--I guess she just likes to browse in trash dumps. Since Wed. she eats three or four lbs. of cubes twice a day. I guess that fills her up. Thanks for all the good advice. [/QUOTE]
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