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<blockquote data-quote="cowgirl8" data-source="post: 1145482" data-attributes="member: 22072"><p>It was a guesstimate but, the bottle was bigger than her body and she was tiny next to the dogs. Lugnut is around 30 pounds.</p><p>She drank a full bottle today. It was an experiment just to see how much she could drink. I dont know where she put it, she wasnt all ballooned out or anything. </p><p>Last preemie i had obviously had stomach issues. She'd eat a tiny bit and grunt for an hour....got her to where she could nurse half a bottle and when she got strong enough she went out to her mother. Lived fine for a week and was out in a pasture to themselves, but i found her dead one morning. </p><p>1/2 pint was what i call a rubber legged preemie. Her legs werent fully formed and appeared rubbery when she would move around. I think her size was smaller because he mother was 14 months old. We had no idea who bred her until i remembered that she probably came out of the herd where when we got the cows up to pull the bulls off, the 2 mature bulls in there would not quit fighting. They were 2 miles away from the corrals and we tried many times to get them to move. So, i locked them in a pasture to themselves. They didnt fight unless we started to move them..We were feeding hay so the cows were fine where they were. One day i went though and one bull was at the gate into the pasture the cows were in. He had to go in there to get to the corrals, so i let him in thinking if i can get him out, then i can get the other. Went the next day and got him and the other. That one bull was in there overnight and i guess thats all it takes..Good thing we induced this little heifer, the bull who bred her is huge and his babies are huge. She would have died or needed a C section for sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowgirl8, post: 1145482, member: 22072"] It was a guesstimate but, the bottle was bigger than her body and she was tiny next to the dogs. Lugnut is around 30 pounds. She drank a full bottle today. It was an experiment just to see how much she could drink. I dont know where she put it, she wasnt all ballooned out or anything. Last preemie i had obviously had stomach issues. She'd eat a tiny bit and grunt for an hour....got her to where she could nurse half a bottle and when she got strong enough she went out to her mother. Lived fine for a week and was out in a pasture to themselves, but i found her dead one morning. 1/2 pint was what i call a rubber legged preemie. Her legs werent fully formed and appeared rubbery when she would move around. I think her size was smaller because he mother was 14 months old. We had no idea who bred her until i remembered that she probably came out of the herd where when we got the cows up to pull the bulls off, the 2 mature bulls in there would not quit fighting. They were 2 miles away from the corrals and we tried many times to get them to move. So, i locked them in a pasture to themselves. They didnt fight unless we started to move them..We were feeding hay so the cows were fine where they were. One day i went though and one bull was at the gate into the pasture the cows were in. He had to go in there to get to the corrals, so i let him in thinking if i can get him out, then i can get the other. Went the next day and got him and the other. That one bull was in there overnight and i guess thats all it takes..Good thing we induced this little heifer, the bull who bred her is huge and his babies are huge. She would have died or needed a C section for sure. [/QUOTE]
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