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<blockquote data-quote="Alice" data-source="post: 294440" data-attributes="member: 3873"><p>This is what I would do...I'm not advocating it to anyone else.</p><p></p><p>Put that little guy in a quasi largefenced in area with shelter and feed him calf starter grower. If you have a younger smaller calf that's being bottle fed, put that calf in with him for companionship, and with any luck at all, the calf that we're talking about here will monkey see/monkey do and take a bottle also. If not, at least he should be guaranteed access to the feed like this. The calf needs nutrition. </p><p></p><p>I'd give him B12 and AD&E right off the get go, and like others have said, I'd worm him.</p><p></p><p>A couple of months ago we brought a charolais heifer home that looked to be about that age and size and was in horrible shape. She was too wild to even think about trying to bottle feed, but we managed to get her in the chute, vaccinated her, vitamined he honk outta her, doctored her sores, gave her a big sub-q shot of nuflor, then turned her out into the pen we were going to keep her in. She promptly jumped over the top of this pen that not even our best houdinis had been able to escape from and joined our larger calves in the pasture. This was right before we got rain, so we were feeding our larger calves daily. Fortunately, she was a little survivor and didn't let the larger calves knock her off the feed, and she gobbled up that dry feed and began to grow like crazy, and after it rained and the grass came up, she grazed constantly. </p><p></p><p>I truly believe the worming and access to dry feed made the difference, 'cause when we sold her last weekend, she was beautiful. And she made one very, very <strong>nice</strong> profit for us.</p><p></p><p>Alice</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alice, post: 294440, member: 3873"] This is what I would do...I'm not advocating it to anyone else. Put that little guy in a quasi largefenced in area with shelter and feed him calf starter grower. If you have a younger smaller calf that's being bottle fed, put that calf in with him for companionship, and with any luck at all, the calf that we're talking about here will monkey see/monkey do and take a bottle also. If not, at least he should be guaranteed access to the feed like this. The calf needs nutrition. I'd give him B12 and AD&E right off the get go, and like others have said, I'd worm him. A couple of months ago we brought a charolais heifer home that looked to be about that age and size and was in horrible shape. She was too wild to even think about trying to bottle feed, but we managed to get her in the chute, vaccinated her, vitamined he honk outta her, doctored her sores, gave her a big sub-q shot of nuflor, then turned her out into the pen we were going to keep her in. She promptly jumped over the top of this pen that not even our best houdinis had been able to escape from and joined our larger calves in the pasture. This was right before we got rain, so we were feeding our larger calves daily. Fortunately, she was a little survivor and didn't let the larger calves knock her off the feed, and she gobbled up that dry feed and began to grow like crazy, and after it rained and the grass came up, she grazed constantly. I truly believe the worming and access to dry feed made the difference, 'cause when we sold her last weekend, she was beautiful. And she made one very, very [b]nice[/b] profit for us. Alice [/QUOTE]
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