TMRwife
Active member
4 day old calf we have in the pen bottle feeding. When we found her on Sunday, she was too weak to stand up and nurse - mom was still attentive (and very aggressive), calf just couldn't eat. Got her in a pen and have been bottle feeding her. She is up, looking better. Now have mom in pen with her. She tries to nurse, but never opens her mouth to latch on - just doing the head butting thing. The milk is actually dripping out of mom's udder. She'll take a bottle great as long as I force her mouth open, good suck, but has never opened her mouth for the bottle either. Very aggressive cow and don't have the facilities to help the calf nurse. The mom would kill me if I even got close. Any ideas or ever heard of this before?