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Mystery Ailment for Newborn Calf?
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<blockquote data-quote="Putangitangi" data-source="post: 1227958" data-attributes="member: 5956"><p>Sometimes they're just not made right! My own approach to really young calves with "issues" is generally to assume something isn't quite right with the calf. You do what you can, but if it doesn't come completely right quite soon, there's probably something going on you won't be able to fix. Cattle are pretty easy-care animals. When they're not and we start trying to keep them going for as long as people do with faulty human babies, we buy a whole lot more trouble for longer. </p><p></p><p>If you really like the heifer, put it down to bad luck and try her again next year. And by the way, you say the birth was unassisted, but did you actually see it happen? Trouble can be caused by delay you didn't see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Putangitangi, post: 1227958, member: 5956"] Sometimes they're just not made right! My own approach to really young calves with "issues" is generally to assume something isn't quite right with the calf. You do what you can, but if it doesn't come completely right quite soon, there's probably something going on you won't be able to fix. Cattle are pretty easy-care animals. When they're not and we start trying to keep them going for as long as people do with faulty human babies, we buy a whole lot more trouble for longer. If you really like the heifer, put it down to bad luck and try her again next year. And by the way, you say the birth was unassisted, but did you actually see it happen? Trouble can be caused by delay you didn't see. [/QUOTE]
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