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Madison Co. Virginia | If here, I'd stop tubing now, continue to offer milk for a week, and give him the best calf starter and water you can. You may just have to consider him weaned at this point. He won't look good, might die, but might pull through as well.
Unfortunately, this is not what you want to hear about a calf that your kids have already become attached to. There's a reasonable chance that they'll be watching the long, slow process of a starvation death. If after a week, the calf is not taking milk and is not eating a good amount of starter, dispatch it quietly out of sight. Make up some sort of fib about it dying during the night, and buy another calf immediately so they forget about that one. | |
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bottle calf troubles
