Twin calf question.

[Sassy2899]

Okay so I have a baby calf that was born twin on Thursday nite at about 9:30 pm.  She is the biggest calf and was the second one out, so she was taking the brunt of the pushing.  When we got her pulled out she wouldn't move her legs or put weight on them when we tried to help her up.  So we brought her into the garage and put her under some heat lamps, she stayed there all night.  The next day (Friday morining) morining we gave her the rest of the colostrum.  Then Friday night we tubed her and gave her a quart of electro-lights.  Then this morning we gave her a quart of milk, tubed that too. Then we gave her another quart of electro-lights, tubed that too.  Then we gave her a quart of milk at about 1 this afternoon, tubed this also.  Then at about 4:30 pm we gave her a quart and one half of a pint of milk again, we tubed that too. We went back out to the barn, at about 8:30 pm, and she was laying on her side.  When we left her she was sitting up with her head up and her ears were out.  She is not wanting to suck at all and the momma cow won't lay with her.  But when she was born the momma cow licked her and some good bonding time in with her.  My question, to anyone who will answer is, am I doing the right things? What else do I need to do?  I forgot to ad that she will stand up and walk, but we have to help her up, once she is up she can walk on her own but is a little wobbly.

 

[Woody]

I had a cow that did this to me two years in a row with single births.  I tried everything about the same as you and finally shipped the cow because if it.  I talked to a couple of vets and came to the conclusion that you cant win them all.  At least you have one more calf out of the cow that she can raise this year so its not a total loss.

 

[rocknmranch]

If she is not responding really well, which she sound like she isn't, don't get your hopes up. Sounds like you are doing all that you can. We had several bottle calves last year, and they wanted to suck. They wanted that bottle, even from day one. Because yours isn't wanting to do this, that worries me.  Good Luck!!

 

[Sassy2899]

The baby calf died this morning at about 3:00 am. It had milk coming out of its nose.  Don't know how it got there.

 

[CAB]

The baby calf died this morning at about 3:00 am. It had milk coming out of its nose.  Don't know how it got there.

Don't know for sure, but the milk coming out of it's nose is a good indicator that one of the times that you tubed it, you put milk down the wind pipe instead of the throat. If you do an autopsy you can see if there is milk in the lungs there by drowning the calf.

 

[Sassy2899]

Whenever I tubed the calf I made sure that I couldn't here it breath through the tube. Could it have belched up some milk and then inhaled it?

 

[lowann]

The baby calf died this morning at about 3:00 am. It had milk coming out of its nose.  Don't know how it got there.

Don't know for sure, but the milk coming out of it's nose is a good indicator that one of the times that you tubed it, you put milk down the wind pipe instead of the throat. If you do an autopsy you can see if there is milk in the lungs there by drowning the calf.

Sounds like that to me too.

 

[Sassy2899]

If I would have put it down its wind pipe wouldn't it have died sooner? I tubed it at 10:00pm and it died at 3:00 am. I am just wondering.