Ok, not actually weird, but never seen anything like it before....
We had a bought in, Pedigree Red Poll heifer calve down this morning, she had been isolated as we thought she was getting close and had bagged up a tiny bit and was slack at the back end... No sliming last night, but we were not expecting her to calve for a few days based on the signs... She looks OK, not too fat and not too thin, been housed on a hay and silage diet with ad lib mollassed minerals
I was doing the feeding this morning, and found she had popped the wee lad out. He had no get up and go and first thought was maybe a difficult calving and got stressed. The strange thing was the tongue protruding, both out the side or the front of the mouth. He didn't want to get up easily and suck and she was a bit unhappy and I didn't want to have the calf kicked and discouraged, so we milked off a litre or so and bottled hi. Not a huge amount of milk, but OK.
Again, the bloody tongue was in evidence and was stopping him grabbing hold of the bottle teat properly, so I had to position the tongue in the mouth to enable him to suck properly!
About to go out again at 11pm and bottle him and hope he is brighter tomorrow...
Any ideas whats up with him? Neither of us have seen this business with the tongue before over many years of Sucklers, its quite weird He is small, but seems OK and doesnt appear Prem.
We had a bought in, Pedigree Red Poll heifer calve down this morning, she had been isolated as we thought she was getting close and had bagged up a tiny bit and was slack at the back end... No sliming last night, but we were not expecting her to calve for a few days based on the signs... She looks OK, not too fat and not too thin, been housed on a hay and silage diet with ad lib mollassed minerals
I was doing the feeding this morning, and found she had popped the wee lad out. He had no get up and go and first thought was maybe a difficult calving and got stressed. The strange thing was the tongue protruding, both out the side or the front of the mouth. He didn't want to get up easily and suck and she was a bit unhappy and I didn't want to have the calf kicked and discouraged, so we milked off a litre or so and bottled hi. Not a huge amount of milk, but OK.
Again, the bloody tongue was in evidence and was stopping him grabbing hold of the bottle teat properly, so I had to position the tongue in the mouth to enable him to suck properly!
About to go out again at 11pm and bottle him and hope he is brighter tomorrow...
Any ideas whats up with him? Neither of us have seen this business with the tongue before over many years of Sucklers, its quite weird He is small, but seems OK and doesnt appear Prem.
