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What's your guess...calf nursed?
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1736769" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Get the cow and calf into a pen/ box stall/ some sort of containment. SEPARATE the cow and calf overnight. Put together in the morning... watch and see... If the calf knows what to do then it will go on the cow... if it doesn't,, then it might have gotten enough colostrum / might not. Too late at this point to worry over that. </p><p>No offense, but too many try to get calves to eat too much the first few days... and rightly, it could not be getting enough... but being a little hungry... drinking the bottle, will also sometimes "flood" the true stomach and wind up causing scours from sheer volume of milk. You say that you don't have a good place to work with cow... maybe she has a bad quarter and calf got that and then didn't want to nurse the other ones... you are going to have to get her in somewhere to really check her udder out if the separate and then put together does not work...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1736769, member: 25884"] Get the cow and calf into a pen/ box stall/ some sort of containment. SEPARATE the cow and calf overnight. Put together in the morning... watch and see... If the calf knows what to do then it will go on the cow... if it doesn't,, then it might have gotten enough colostrum / might not. Too late at this point to worry over that. No offense, but too many try to get calves to eat too much the first few days... and rightly, it could not be getting enough... but being a little hungry... drinking the bottle, will also sometimes "flood" the true stomach and wind up causing scours from sheer volume of milk. You say that you don't have a good place to work with cow... maybe she has a bad quarter and calf got that and then didn't want to nurse the other ones... you are going to have to get her in somewhere to really check her udder out if the separate and then put together does not work... [/QUOTE]
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