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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1389630" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Sounds like a baby beef for the freezer???? Actually, put her in a smallish pasture with someone for company and don't move her anymore. Can she see??? She could be blind/partially blind and moving her will only confuse her. At 10 months is she weaned? If not, put her and momma in a small, like 1/2 acre or less, pasture, let mom show her where everything is and see if she doesn't do better. If she is weaned find a smaller calf that she won't get pushed around by, and put them together where there is no one else, so they have to bond, and see if that helps. We have to do this with an occasional calf that gets bad pinkeye and loses most of its' sight and one year had a calf that was born blind and it stuck with the cow and we didn't realize if for weeks. So we just got them back to the barn and into a small lot of less than 1/4 acre, and the calf learned the boundaries and got it up to about 5-600 lbs. Butchered it and the cow was moved back to the next breeding group. Not her fault. Has had perfectly normal calves since then.</p><p>Even if it is not sight, a familiar place with one animal for company would probably help alot. I wouldn't sell it to someone else though, I'd put it in the freezer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1389630, member: 25884"] Sounds like a baby beef for the freezer???? Actually, put her in a smallish pasture with someone for company and don't move her anymore. Can she see??? She could be blind/partially blind and moving her will only confuse her. At 10 months is she weaned? If not, put her and momma in a small, like 1/2 acre or less, pasture, let mom show her where everything is and see if she doesn't do better. If she is weaned find a smaller calf that she won't get pushed around by, and put them together where there is no one else, so they have to bond, and see if that helps. We have to do this with an occasional calf that gets bad pinkeye and loses most of its' sight and one year had a calf that was born blind and it stuck with the cow and we didn't realize if for weeks. So we just got them back to the barn and into a small lot of less than 1/4 acre, and the calf learned the boundaries and got it up to about 5-600 lbs. Butchered it and the cow was moved back to the next breeding group. Not her fault. Has had perfectly normal calves since then. Even if it is not sight, a familiar place with one animal for company would probably help alot. I wouldn't sell it to someone else though, I'd put it in the freezer. [/QUOTE]
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