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<blockquote data-quote="randiliana" data-source="post: 696823" data-attributes="member: 2308"><p>A good healthy calf should be on its feet within about 1/2 hour, especially in warmer weather. Mama cow should be with her calf, licking it off and mothering it up. </p><p></p><p>If your mama has taken off, you need to get colostrum into that calf as soon as you can. Under 6 hours is best. Either get her caught and milk her, or go buy some commercial colostrum replacer. The best would be the fresh stuff, but the commercial stuff will work in a pinch. </p><p></p><p>|If the calf doesn't get up and suck on its own fairly quickly, you still need to get colostrum into it as soon as you can. A good feed of colostrum will often fix up a weak calf. </p><p></p><p>Once the calf is up and going, dried off, and is sucking from mama, they can take a lot of weather. If it is going to be really wet, it would be best with such a young calf if it could have access to some sort of a shed though. And keep a close eye on it for scours, so you can treat BEFORE the calf is really sick.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="randiliana, post: 696823, member: 2308"] A good healthy calf should be on its feet within about 1/2 hour, especially in warmer weather. Mama cow should be with her calf, licking it off and mothering it up. If your mama has taken off, you need to get colostrum into that calf as soon as you can. Under 6 hours is best. Either get her caught and milk her, or go buy some commercial colostrum replacer. The best would be the fresh stuff, but the commercial stuff will work in a pinch. |If the calf doesn't get up and suck on its own fairly quickly, you still need to get colostrum into it as soon as you can. A good feed of colostrum will often fix up a weak calf. Once the calf is up and going, dried off, and is sucking from mama, they can take a lot of weather. If it is going to be really wet, it would be best with such a young calf if it could have access to some sort of a shed though. And keep a close eye on it for scours, so you can treat BEFORE the calf is really sick. [/QUOTE]
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