Have had four calves born this spring that in the long and short of it were too stupid to even suck. Bottle fed them for the first day or more. The first calf took several days of this before he got the ideal and even then for a few days had to steer him towards momma, luckily so was a pretty mellow animal and would let me push the calf right to her teats.
Lost the second one, the last two have had to do the same thing. One is catching on finally, the other is stupid as a bucket of rocks. Give him half a bottle so he’s still hungry, shove em towards momma, then he goes after the same dry quarter every time. This last one is so stupid that he even forgets what the bottle is the next time around. First 24 hours had to tube him twice as he wouldn’t suck, period. The wife has had to feed him since as he tries whats left of my patience. I’ve seen these last two suck on momma’s front legs, on mommas neck, on her ears, on her back legs and the one even sucked on momma’s tale. Like I said, stupid as a bucket of rocks.
All four has had this on them to varying degrees, none of the heifer calves has had it at all and the rest of the bull calves were fine. The one we lost was the worst.
The first bull calf we had problems with had this same thing although not as bad and all the hair has since come in to fill in the “Rashy” looking spots.
Strange condition in bull calves
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