Calf Won't Get Up. A Little Help?

That's what I love about this site. Some of the best advice I've gotten is from other people with a wealth of experience and info. Of course, you have to sift through it to find what applies to your situation. If you can afford it, the vet can do a blood test to check for selenium deficiency. Too much of it is toxic. My area (north central Florida) has very little selenium that occurs naturally. On top of that this girl was extremely malnourished. I think that she was so bad that her body had temporarily stopped growing because she wasn't getting any food. Then I got her and she suddenly had all she could eat. Her body started growing really fast which caused her deficiencies to kick in. The vet also gave her a shot of B vitamins. We switched her to a feed with Bovitech, and added corn. Then followed up with more BoSe and B complex. She's doing much better now. Growing at an unbelievable rate. I would like to hope that the seller made good with a refund on the first calf since it was less than 24 hours. We had something similar happen last spring, the calf was just sick and couldn't be saved. The dairy we bought her from replaced her the next time they had a heifer calf available. Because of this, I will go to them when my nurse cow is ready and I want some nursling calves.
Good luck with the little guy. I'd like to know how it turns out.

I'm glad your girl is doing well. Sadly my calf died. I'm about to make a post about it asking for opinions. I did tell the seller about the first calf~ she did offer to make it right but then informed me she had never had a sick calf before and the dairy she bought the calves from had never had a sick calf.....and she never called with an offer of a replacement calf. I could have pursued it but I don't really want more calves from her. I don't live close to any dairies and depend on middle men to buy calves from~ I'll be keeping her number and not be buying calves from her any more.

I keep loose mineral out for all calves I bring in even though the protein pellets I use have a very good mineral pkg. in them. I had a small calf once going around eating dirt after I bought him finally decided to put some mineral out and after a few days he quit. Ever since I just keep some out for them.

Cheryl you bought from a calf jockey, some are pretty decent and some are in it for a buck.

Could be a hauling injury. use a tube of aspirin paste.

I'm so sorry you lost him. It's hard, too, when you're really not sure what was wrong. Cows and calves both are good at masking symptoms so it's often hard to tell if they are sick or injured until they're pretty far gone. Good luck.