Hello
We've got a 3 day old beef calf that was abandoned by it's mother at birth (first born of a pair of twins). I don't think the shepherd gave it enough colostrum - it hadn't sucked the dam and it only got 2 litres of artificial colostrum. It sucked the colostrum but hasn't shown any interest in sucking since. We have been tubing twice a day with 2litres of milk.
Since yesterday morning, the sh!t coming out of it has looked like pure blood, quite dark. I've got it under a heat lamp of a thick bed of straw and we will keep tubing it.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem is and what we could do?
Thanks.
We've got a 3 day old beef calf that was abandoned by it's mother at birth (first born of a pair of twins). I don't think the shepherd gave it enough colostrum - it hadn't sucked the dam and it only got 2 litres of artificial colostrum. It sucked the colostrum but hasn't shown any interest in sucking since. We have been tubing twice a day with 2litres of milk.
Since yesterday morning, the sh!t coming out of it has looked like pure blood, quite dark. I've got it under a heat lamp of a thick bed of straw and we will keep tubing it.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem is and what we could do?
Thanks.