Thursday, May 14, 2009

Feeding new calves

6:30pm Feeding

Tiny Jersey girl was the best. She could suck from a bottle without much help. She drank about .5 quart.

Spotted Jersey girl wouldn't suck at all. I patiently poured .25 quarts down her throat. She is up and around and acting okay. Both she and Tiny were on a nurse cow before.

Jersey/Holstein girl wouldn't suck either. I poured .5 quart down her throat. I thought she was just exhausted but she is acting kind of funny. She rolled her eyes back and went totally limp while she was asleep. I thought she was dying, and picked her up and took several minutes to shake her back to alert. Paul was arriving home at the time, so we tubed fed her and she seemed to recover a lot.

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