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Haybelly or am I getting an OOPS calf?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lannie" data-source="post: 1682711" data-attributes="member: 8202"><p>To find out if a calf has been nursing when you're not looking, wet your fingers with water (not spit!) and feel her teats. Any that have dried calf saliva on them will feel slippery. If none of them feel slippery, then bottle or tube him, however you can get some milk in him. Chances are, though, if he's nursed once, he knows where the milk bar is and he's doing it on his own just fine, but I'd check her teats to make sure. Sometimes (ALL the time?) bull calves can be a bit slow on the uptake, and especially one that had a hard birth. </p><p></p><p>Good luck with him. I hope he continues to get better. (I have no experience with bloat in calves, so I don't know what that is, but I hope it's nothing serious.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lannie, post: 1682711, member: 8202"] To find out if a calf has been nursing when you're not looking, wet your fingers with water (not spit!) and feel her teats. Any that have dried calf saliva on them will feel slippery. If none of them feel slippery, then bottle or tube him, however you can get some milk in him. Chances are, though, if he's nursed once, he knows where the milk bar is and he's doing it on his own just fine, but I'd check her teats to make sure. Sometimes (ALL the time?) bull calves can be a bit slow on the uptake, and especially one that had a hard birth. Good luck with him. I hope he continues to get better. (I have no experience with bloat in calves, so I don't know what that is, but I hope it's nothing serious.) [/QUOTE]
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