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malnourished 2 week old calf
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<blockquote data-quote="RobShiner" data-source="post: 445735" data-attributes="member: 7139"><p>Hi,</p><p>I have an older tiger stripe cow that typically calves every 12-13 months. Due to special issues, I left a calf on her for ~9 months, but after weaning the 9 month old calf, she calved 3 weeks later. The new bull calf is very drawn, but energetic. I have the calf in a pen with the momma cow, tried to bottle feed a few times but couldn't get him to suck very well. Now I almost can't handle him due to his fighting me (2 wks old today), and he walks around the pen ok, but he looks pretty poor. It looks like he was sucking only 1 teat, but possibly a larger one yesterday (hard for me to tell) - her bag is pretty low, which may be part of the problem.</p><p>Any advice? I don't know if I should fight him to get him to bottle feed, or not stress him and leave him be, or to cull him to auction along with the momma. I'm concerned the momma cow's body still thinks it's the older calf I sold, and isn't producing much milk.</p><p>Thanks for everyone's help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RobShiner, post: 445735, member: 7139"] Hi, I have an older tiger stripe cow that typically calves every 12-13 months. Due to special issues, I left a calf on her for ~9 months, but after weaning the 9 month old calf, she calved 3 weeks later. The new bull calf is very drawn, but energetic. I have the calf in a pen with the momma cow, tried to bottle feed a few times but couldn't get him to suck very well. Now I almost can't handle him due to his fighting me (2 wks old today), and he walks around the pen ok, but he looks pretty poor. It looks like he was sucking only 1 teat, but possibly a larger one yesterday (hard for me to tell) - her bag is pretty low, which may be part of the problem. Any advice? I don't know if I should fight him to get him to bottle feed, or not stress him and leave him be, or to cull him to auction along with the momma. I'm concerned the momma cow's body still thinks it's the older calf I sold, and isn't producing much milk. Thanks for everyone's help. [/QUOTE]
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