I'm so glad he's doing better. He can be lonely, cows are a herd animal. We were just going to get a 2 week old Jersey steer a few years ago, but I felt bad and brought home a little heifer with him so I don't know how they do alone.
As for a goose with the calf, I have no idea but it never...
I just remembered another bit of information about when our heifer was close to calving, the farmer we got her from said it happens to all of his cows and heifers too. On her stomach near her belly button, a lump of fluid started forming about a week before calving and got really big the day...
I know this is really late but it was the back 2 that got infected. The farmer we got her from came and gave her antibiotics and we hand milked her as often as we could since her heifer was too small to empty her and it took a few days but she got better and is still doing great and making milk...
He is so cute!! He could just be stressed from being brought to your house and away from familiar surroundings. Just keep trying and he should come around and start drinking more. Good Luck!
Here's a picture of Daisy's back end 3 days before she calved. It's hard too see but it gets really swollen and very bouncy even when they barely move the closer they get.
When mine was pregnant she looked like she would have it any day about 3 weeks before she actually calved. She was due August 11th but didn't have her baby until the 16th. Her back end was very swollen and springy, her pins were relaxed and separated, her udder was so full it was hard for her to...
A Jersey but I never saw him, she was artifially done. I love her color too, I'm glad she doesn't have any white like her mom, it's hard to keep clean.
Thank you! We're glad too she's a heifer, one steer is more than enough to deal with. She's growing up so fast, I let her out of their pen today so she could start getting used to it and she loved it, she was running all over the place and following me as I was getting ready to milk mom. She's...
last night we noticed our cow that just had her baby 2 days ago wasn't acting right, a vet came out and took her temp. She had a fever and has an infection in her udder. She got 2 shots, one for the fever and one antibiotic, we also milked her dry to clear out the ducts.
Does anyone have any...
Thank you, it was perfect timing. I'm glad we were there because she had trouble pushing the head out so I had to help, it was my first time helping any animal being born and it was amazing.
She was so exhausted when it was done she couldn't get up so I brought the baby to her. It was funny, she...
Our heifer, Daisy, finally had her baby yesterday at 2:40pm. It is a beautiful healthy little heifer, I'm so excited! Daisy had her 3 days before her due date and the hottest day of summer so far, it was 116 yesterday.
He gets corrected when he gets rough and stops but I can tell he still wants to, I never turn my back on him and none of my kids are allowed to be in his stall anymore.
I know the date she was bred and she is due August 19th but she looks like she's about done. I'm not sure the type of semen but it must have been because the farmer told me that she has an 70 or 80% chance of having a heifer.
I understand what this thread is about and I completely agree with the fact that he needs to be put down, and there are some people that tolerate dangerous bulls which is why that one is still alive and the point of my last comment. I don't agree with the last post I wrote but it is what some...
Cute cows!
Here's mine. They are both a month shy of 2 years old, they were bottle fed since 2 weeks old and the heifer is due any day now with her first baby. The steer is still nice but will be on our table soon.
These were my first bottle calves too. I'm glad to hear he's doing better. Our steer got scours once when he was a baby but I started him on medicated milk replacer right away and it cleared up by the next day. They are so little, and without mom's milk, they go downhill fast if it's not...
BUT.. to play devils advocate. A bull is not a domesticated animal which is why there's some tolerance for the bull not much tolerance for aggressive dogs. When you have a bull, it's only a matter of time before someone is in the hospital or dead, that's a price people have to realize when they...