Need Advice for bottle calf

Marc, before the picture was taken she had been curled up for well over an hour. Through the entire day, when she slept, she slept curled up. She was stretching her legs. Camera phone pictures aren't the best and it makes her look rougher than she is.

The weather here hasn't been bad and neither of the calves have had to be out in the rain or suffer from being too cold.

We bedded the shelter deep, with good clean hay. You can't see it in the picture because we didn't put much near the opening. Most of it is behind the short panel where you can't see it. It's about ten inches deep.

I tried to call my niece a few minutes ago and she didn't answer. I know she was going to the feed store this morning. We'll have to wait to hear from her to know how Belle is doing.

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No young calf should lay like that..they stand up to stretch...tail still wet ...they really only have so many days of moisture in there bodies ....I would alsogive electrolites in between feedings..pick up at the same feed store..the calf LOOKS BEHIND and needs to catch up quick

Fla Gal here,

I was going to wait until I heard from my niece to post again but maybe these pictures, and more information will help clear up a little confusion. They bought two bottle calves, a bull calf for the freezer and Belle, because they wanted a lawn mower.

Belle is a twin to a bull calf and the dairy told my niece Belle had no sex organs and she was small because the bull calf took most of the nutrition. I told her the guy was giving her a few quick answers so he didn't have to explain what a Free Martin was. As far as the nutrition answer he gave her, maybe it was because they didn't care and wouldn't take a little extra time with Belle to make sure she ate. My niece said the conditions for the calves at both dairys they went to were bad. The calves they got were purchased from the dairy that had better conditions for the calves.

Being that they wanted a lawn mower, my niece chose Belle. She's a sucker for the underdog. Geeze, the kids raised Bubba the pig to show for 4H and bought him back because they couldn't stand the thought of him being butchered. He's now a happy, healthy pasture pig that weight in some where between 750 to 800 pounds and loves his peanut butter cracker snacks.

Topside, it's green poop, not yellow. Belle did fine yesterday after she'd had the Sure Jell the day before. She was up and moving around fine, wobbly, but fine. It doesn't stink any more than any other cow poop. He ears don't droop all the time. When she's up and moving around she perky, tries to headbutt for milk and will follow you around.

In the first picture, of the set of three, you can see the weather isn't bad and Belle is a lot smaller than Duke, who is two days older then her. He wasn't a twin.

The second picture is of Belle. She looked pretty bad on that first day and she's still thinner than Duke and a little wobbly on her feet. I hope this helps with all of you understanding what's going on.

http://www.use.com/71490744cb8df06c8c1f#photo=1

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myersfarm, from my post above I think you'll see that she was behind from the start. She wasn't just laying like that she stretched out for a minute or so and then got to her feet. She didn't stay that way for long. She isn't dehydrated, we made sure of that. She was drinking water throughout the day yesterday too.

My niece was going to get electrolytes this morning to give to Belle. We have to wait to hear from her as to what's going on.

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Fla Gal from what I see you have a day or less

UPDATE I went to the dairy were I got her from and they said to give her pepto and pedialyte. I put the pepto mixed with 3pints of pedialyte. She drank that down this was about 12:30 this morning. I look in on her and as I walked to thier pen, she was standing and swaying her tail back in forth. So now I am going to give her some more pedialyte later this eveing and I will give you another update. Everyone Thank you again for taking time to respond.

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I fed her about 11:00pm and she was doing good, now when she ate her last bottle of the night about 15 minutes later she had loose stools once again. I am callin the dairy farm where I purchased her tomorrow, a person there has offered to come and take a look at her. She was up and walking around for a while today and seemed to be doing good. I just don't get it. So until tomorrow I will let you know what happens. Thank you again.

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Your niece might have bought a calf whose intestine where not develloped properly, it happens sometimes.

-Poischis

How's the calf doing?

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Fla Gal here,

I checked with my niece yesterday and the calf was doing okay. The lady from the dairy is supposed to stop by sometime today. My niece will probably give an update then. Topside1, thanks for asking.

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Fla Gal here again,

I finally got to talk to my niece today. She said Belle is doing fine. Belle has been running around and kicking her heels up. She's no longer wobbly on her feet. My niece followed the advise of using Pepto Bismol and Pedilyte (not sure about the spelling) and things are okay now.

Here are two pictures of them taken late this afternoon. In the first picture Belle is on the right, in the second picture she's on the left. The easiest way to tell them apart at a glance is Belle has white feet.
http://www.use.com/3156ff55e8c4312062db#photo=1

Thanks to all of you for your help, my niece and I appreciate it.

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