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<blockquote data-quote="Putangitangi" data-source="post: 1643266" data-attributes="member: 5956"><p>You didn't cut her open for a look? I can't bear not to know what caused a death in cases like that when you will often find a really obvious cause. I had one like yours and it turned out she had a necrotic bladder, possibly from trauma during a too-long delivery several weeks beforehand; or maybe it was just infection and it wrecked her bladder. She too got really thin but her belly was full of fluid. Really interesting to cut her open and have a look around, make sure it wasn't the uterus, etc.</p><p></p><p>I've had to get three or four big calves feeding over the years, the biggest was 11 weeks old. I got in the race with each one, shoved him against the side and held the bottle and teat in his mouth until he swallowed - making sure always the milk was the right temperature, so it didn't put him off. To begin with more went down the outside than in but by the time I'd done that in the race two or three times, the calf was feeding and by the fourth or fifth time only needed to be penned in a small yard to make him see the bottle and by the end of the week would run across the paddock to me at feeding time. </p><p></p><p>I've never left a calf to work it out for themselves: I've lost a cow, I'm not going to lose a calf as well! All these gained weight about the same as their peers and went off to sale with them when they were weaned. In recent years we've been milking a cow for the house (and these emergencies), so there was "free" milk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Putangitangi, post: 1643266, member: 5956"] You didn't cut her open for a look? I can't bear not to know what caused a death in cases like that when you will often find a really obvious cause. I had one like yours and it turned out she had a necrotic bladder, possibly from trauma during a too-long delivery several weeks beforehand; or maybe it was just infection and it wrecked her bladder. She too got really thin but her belly was full of fluid. Really interesting to cut her open and have a look around, make sure it wasn't the uterus, etc. I've had to get three or four big calves feeding over the years, the biggest was 11 weeks old. I got in the race with each one, shoved him against the side and held the bottle and teat in his mouth until he swallowed - making sure always the milk was the right temperature, so it didn't put him off. To begin with more went down the outside than in but by the time I'd done that in the race two or three times, the calf was feeding and by the fourth or fifth time only needed to be penned in a small yard to make him see the bottle and by the end of the week would run across the paddock to me at feeding time. I've never left a calf to work it out for themselves: I've lost a cow, I'm not going to lose a calf as well! All these gained weight about the same as their peers and went off to sale with them when they were weaned. In recent years we've been milking a cow for the house (and these emergencies), so there was "free" milk. [/QUOTE]
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