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<blockquote data-quote="damengineer" data-source="post: 1694937" data-attributes="member: 24810"><p>Found a dead newborn this morning. Still wet and Mama had tried for a while I could tell. I was watching one have a calf the other evening. She did not have any trouble, and she was one of my older cows, one of the original herd 10 years ago. I watched and when she went to the calf's butt to lick it, I could tell the placenta was still over its nose. I ribbed the placenta off of its nose and it did not seem to want to breathe, so I stuck a grass stem up its nose and made it cough. The one this morning had no obvious problems, just looked like a normal newborn bull calf, just dead on its back at the edge of a ditch.. Would this be a lack of mineral? We are a little short of grass I keep hay out, and all 3 kinds of salt blocks and also loose mineral. I mixed a little garlic powder in the mineral, it seemed to work. This is the most dead calves I have had in a season already.. The first dead one was deformed, its lower jaw was not formed right. It could have been an inbred problem. This cow is probably 12 yrs old. Does she need a trip to the sale barn next load? She is in good condition, probably weigh 1400 lbs...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="damengineer, post: 1694937, member: 24810"] Found a dead newborn this morning. Still wet and Mama had tried for a while I could tell. I was watching one have a calf the other evening. She did not have any trouble, and she was one of my older cows, one of the original herd 10 years ago. I watched and when she went to the calf's butt to lick it, I could tell the placenta was still over its nose. I ribbed the placenta off of its nose and it did not seem to want to breathe, so I stuck a grass stem up its nose and made it cough. The one this morning had no obvious problems, just looked like a normal newborn bull calf, just dead on its back at the edge of a ditch.. Would this be a lack of mineral? We are a little short of grass I keep hay out, and all 3 kinds of salt blocks and also loose mineral. I mixed a little garlic powder in the mineral, it seemed to work. This is the most dead calves I have had in a season already.. The first dead one was deformed, its lower jaw was not formed right. It could have been an inbred problem. This cow is probably 12 yrs old. Does she need a trip to the sale barn next load? She is in good condition, probably weigh 1400 lbs... [/QUOTE]
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