SSS Angus
Well-known member
OK, here is the scenario;
I got up to the sale barn early this morning and did the usual walk around to check out any prospects, mainly smaller calves and saw a few. The sale started at about 10 o'clock and around noon or so they ran a brangus pair through. Didn't pay a whole lot of attention to the pair as at the time I was not interested in anything over a couple hundred pounds. While in the ring they got the mother stirred up and she inadvertently stepped on her little(I would guess around 2-3 weeks of age) bull calve. I thought the calve was dead because he didn't get up and then they picked him up and carried him away. When I got ready to leave which was probably about 4 hrs. later curiosity got the best of me as to what happened with this little calve. I started asking around and was finally led to where he was at, he appeared to be fine as he was standing and walking around with no limp but was missing a little hair from where momma stepped on him. I wound up buying him for $35 in hopes of nursing him back to health. He is moving around but seems a little lethargic, I can't get him to take a bottle but he makes a half ass attempt to eat the hay/straw that we spread around on the barn stall floor for bedding. So here is the question:
Any suggestions on getting him to take the bottle or should I just let him eat what hay he wants to and throw down some good feed to see if he will eat that as well?
Also, what antibiotic could I hit him with to help ward off any parasites/diseases that may try to attack him?
Any comments or suggestions would be much appreciated.
TIA...
I got up to the sale barn early this morning and did the usual walk around to check out any prospects, mainly smaller calves and saw a few. The sale started at about 10 o'clock and around noon or so they ran a brangus pair through. Didn't pay a whole lot of attention to the pair as at the time I was not interested in anything over a couple hundred pounds. While in the ring they got the mother stirred up and she inadvertently stepped on her little(I would guess around 2-3 weeks of age) bull calve. I thought the calve was dead because he didn't get up and then they picked him up and carried him away. When I got ready to leave which was probably about 4 hrs. later curiosity got the best of me as to what happened with this little calve. I started asking around and was finally led to where he was at, he appeared to be fine as he was standing and walking around with no limp but was missing a little hair from where momma stepped on him. I wound up buying him for $35 in hopes of nursing him back to health. He is moving around but seems a little lethargic, I can't get him to take a bottle but he makes a half ass attempt to eat the hay/straw that we spread around on the barn stall floor for bedding. So here is the question:
Any suggestions on getting him to take the bottle or should I just let him eat what hay he wants to and throw down some good feed to see if he will eat that as well?
Also, what antibiotic could I hit him with to help ward off any parasites/diseases that may try to attack him?
Any comments or suggestions would be much appreciated.
TIA...