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<blockquote data-quote="Workinonit Farm" data-source="post: 406665" data-attributes="member: 839"><p>If it were me, and my nurse-cow wasn't available, I'd try to get it to take a bottle. It would certainly take quite a few tries to transition the calf from teat to bottle. I would also get it started on feed.</p><p></p><p>I had 2 calves that I acquired that were a month old when I got them. Both at the same time, straight off the cow (story for another time). #20 took to the bottle as if she'd been on it since birth, #31 well, lets just say it was a rodeo. What I did with them was I put them up in a small pen with a run-in shed. I'd close them up in the run-in then catch the little buggers and shove the bottle in their mouth. Like I said, #20 took to it right away, but #31 took about 4 days of trying before she would come to me for the bottle. The feed I put in a wall mounted feeder, and they eventually got curious enough and tried it and started eating it well along with hay.</p><p></p><p>It can be done. Good luck.</p><p></p><p>Katherine</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Workinonit Farm, post: 406665, member: 839"] If it were me, and my nurse-cow wasn't available, I'd try to get it to take a bottle. It would certainly take quite a few tries to transition the calf from teat to bottle. I would also get it started on feed. I had 2 calves that I acquired that were a month old when I got them. Both at the same time, straight off the cow (story for another time). #20 took to the bottle as if she'd been on it since birth, #31 well, lets just say it was a rodeo. What I did with them was I put them up in a small pen with a run-in shed. I'd close them up in the run-in then catch the little buggers and shove the bottle in their mouth. Like I said, #20 took to it right away, but #31 took about 4 days of trying before she would come to me for the bottle. The feed I put in a wall mounted feeder, and they eventually got curious enough and tried it and started eating it well along with hay. It can be done. Good luck. Katherine [/QUOTE]
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