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Even more bad luck with calves
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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 68467" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>I hate tubing calves. Hate it. I'm always worried I've got it down the wrong pipe. So far I've done OK and haven't gotten fluid in the lungs (yet). </p><p></p><p>The way I do it is to slide the tube into his mouth - slowly - and as it gets to the back of the throat they'll usually swallow it. Sometimes you have to wait a moment or two. You can feel when they've swallowed it and can be reasonably sure it's in the right spot, vs if you just run it back and force it down. </p><p></p><p>I did have a heifer calf a few weeks ago with pnemonia that wouldn't drink and had to be tubed. That one made me really nervous, because she wouldn't swallow, and so I didn't know if I had the tube in the right spot. I'd do a quick check like farminlund describes (ear or hand over the tube) and then put the milk down. She was having a hard enough time breathing before I put the tube down, and I didn't want to take too long.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 68467, member: 852"] I hate tubing calves. Hate it. I'm always worried I've got it down the wrong pipe. So far I've done OK and haven't gotten fluid in the lungs (yet). The way I do it is to slide the tube into his mouth - slowly - and as it gets to the back of the throat they'll usually swallow it. Sometimes you have to wait a moment or two. You can feel when they've swallowed it and can be reasonably sure it's in the right spot, vs if you just run it back and force it down. I did have a heifer calf a few weeks ago with pnemonia that wouldn't drink and had to be tubed. That one made me really nervous, because she wouldn't swallow, and so I didn't know if I had the tube in the right spot. I'd do a quick check like farminlund describes (ear or hand over the tube) and then put the milk down. She was having a hard enough time breathing before I put the tube down, and I didn't want to take too long. [/QUOTE]
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