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<blockquote data-quote="sciencegal" data-source="post: 662472" data-attributes="member: 8907"><p>I raise dairy goats and because I have so much extra milk Iast year I started getting bottle beef calves to raise on the goat milk. The first one last year, a black angus heifer did beautifully until about 2 weeks before she was scheduled to go to the butcher when I found her dead. She was fine the night before. I posted here wondering about it and came to the conclusion that it was probably a clostridial disease or she bloated.</p><p></p><p>So, number two, a red angus steer has been doing great, growing, eating well, I have both halves of him sold. A few weeks ago he bloated so bad I had to stab him in the rumen to save him. That was an experience! I worried about this happening because at the time all I had was alfalfa although I had slowly switched him over from the last of my oat hay. He is now on nothing but wheat hay and doing fine, but I'm on pins and needles that he'll bloat again.</p><p></p><p>Now, number 3. I got a Charolais/cross? at the auction last Friday. He looked like he was only a day or day and half old. I brought milk to the auction with me in case the calf was young since it is a long, hot drive home. He took the bottle in the trailer after only a little convincing then drank eagerly. He has been doing well, eating with gusto until Monday night when he didn't seem all that interested. He'd suck for awhile then act like he didn't like the nipple and only ended up drinking about a quart. Tuesday, same thing so I gave him an injection of B complex in the morning, afteroon feeding the same, then in the evening when he he seemed even less interested in eating I him a Pen G injection. I figured when I went out to feed him this morning I'd find him a goner. But, I was surprised to see he is much better. Jumped up when he saw me coming with the bottle, and while he didn't finish all of it he was much more interested.</p><p></p><p>Are cattle always so hard? I've raised goats for 15 years and I've not had these kinds of problems. Maybe I just worry too much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sciencegal, post: 662472, member: 8907"] I raise dairy goats and because I have so much extra milk Iast year I started getting bottle beef calves to raise on the goat milk. The first one last year, a black angus heifer did beautifully until about 2 weeks before she was scheduled to go to the butcher when I found her dead. She was fine the night before. I posted here wondering about it and came to the conclusion that it was probably a clostridial disease or she bloated. So, number two, a red angus steer has been doing great, growing, eating well, I have both halves of him sold. A few weeks ago he bloated so bad I had to stab him in the rumen to save him. That was an experience! I worried about this happening because at the time all I had was alfalfa although I had slowly switched him over from the last of my oat hay. He is now on nothing but wheat hay and doing fine, but I'm on pins and needles that he'll bloat again. Now, number 3. I got a Charolais/cross? at the auction last Friday. He looked like he was only a day or day and half old. I brought milk to the auction with me in case the calf was young since it is a long, hot drive home. He took the bottle in the trailer after only a little convincing then drank eagerly. He has been doing well, eating with gusto until Monday night when he didn't seem all that interested. He'd suck for awhile then act like he didn't like the nipple and only ended up drinking about a quart. Tuesday, same thing so I gave him an injection of B complex in the morning, afteroon feeding the same, then in the evening when he he seemed even less interested in eating I him a Pen G injection. I figured when I went out to feed him this morning I'd find him a goner. But, I was surprised to see he is much better. Jumped up when he saw me coming with the bottle, and while he didn't finish all of it he was much more interested. Are cattle always so hard? I've raised goats for 15 years and I've not had these kinds of problems. Maybe I just worry too much. [/QUOTE]
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