Posted 5/26/2016 00:12 (#5320888 - in reply to #5320819) Subject: RE: Are calves born empty?
Madison Co. Virginia
Calves ingest quite a bit of the amnionic fluid before birth, and that combined with gastric juices, makes a very greasy and sticky dark brown/black stool with lots of small lumps. You'll see this for the first several hours, then if they're drinking, they'll begin to pass very smooth pasty yellow manure.
Are calves born empty?
