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Heifer calved and is not letting her milk down ANYONE?????
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<blockquote data-quote="hillsdown" data-source="post: 361738" data-attributes="member: 5106"><p>I may have missed the something in the earlier posts but why are you giving it electrolites?The heifer probably has really bad edema which is causing her pain when the calf tries to feed therefore she stops letting her milk down.And unless you are experienced in stripping a cow you could be causing more harm than good.Your calf does not really have a temperature but if you are giving water when it really just needs milk you are probably starving it.Not your fault just some dumb advice you have gotten.Keep the calf and cow together and suppliment the calf with milk replacer until the cow can totaly sustain the calf.Also stop with the medicating the cow it is a 1 in 500 case that the heifer needs it.They are not dairy cows they are beef and once the edema goes down and they calm down(especially if you stop messing with them they are already anxious being first time calvers) they will 99.9% of the time get into the swing of things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hillsdown, post: 361738, member: 5106"] I may have missed the something in the earlier posts but why are you giving it electrolites?The heifer probably has really bad edema which is causing her pain when the calf tries to feed therefore she stops letting her milk down.And unless you are experienced in stripping a cow you could be causing more harm than good.Your calf does not really have a temperature but if you are giving water when it really just needs milk you are probably starving it.Not your fault just some dumb advice you have gotten.Keep the calf and cow together and suppliment the calf with milk replacer until the cow can totaly sustain the calf.Also stop with the medicating the cow it is a 1 in 500 case that the heifer needs it.They are not dairy cows they are beef and once the edema goes down and they calm down(especially if you stop messing with them they are already anxious being first time calvers) they will 99.9% of the time get into the swing of things. [/QUOTE]
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