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I tried to find the bottle of wormer we used but DH must have thrown it out. The bottle was broke and was leaking everywhere. We only ended up worming her the one time and we gave her the recommended dose for a 400lb cow (I believe). After she went down it stayed really cold and I was afraid to...

I'm prayin we don't run into anything like that. :fl I think we tackled the main reasons she went down and she's gettin some good groceries in her so she should start puttin weight on. I'm goin to start measuring her to make sure that she's gaining. She's been up and down no problem for the past...

Thanks everyone. We still have a long road ahead but hopefully we are on the right track now.

Just thought I'd update this in case anyone was wondering what happened to her and all. For the past 4 days she has been getting up on her own and started walking around. She improves a little bit more every day and today she was up every time I looked out the window and checked on her. You can...

Don't worry I haven't. :)

She has def been getting stronger over the last couple days and even managed to raise herself off the ground today when she saw DH coming to give her her shots. It was only for a second or 2 and she was really wobbly but she did do it. Her temp was 102.6

She has already been wormed once (although I know we have talked about the fact that I probably under dosed her) and I we haven't had a chance to worm her yet because the weather has been rainy. The rest of the week/weekend is sposed to be nice and clear so tomorrow I will be going out to give...

ok good. At least thats one less worry for me. Although it would so be my luck to end up with the only dwarf hereford left in existence :rolleyes:. I tried to pay more attention to her when she tried to get up today and it seems like when she tries to do anything with her back legs it hurts...

Hmm i had no idea. Well i spose it possible then.

I dont know if cows are like people where 2 average size people can have a dwarf child but I do know that both her parents were normal sized cows.

Thanks. You are right i do need to leave her food alone. Our goal right now is to get her up. As far as putting her down goes DH will do it. He has experience putting cows down. Ive seen him do 3 myself and they were all clean shots and immediate kills. Hopefully i can get ahold of some hood...

For the past week she has been getting sweet feed and hay every day. I also added in calf manna and beet pulp yesterday. As for the hay i am have been giving her grass hay the past couple days but the quality must not be to her liking si.ce she turns her nose up at it so tom i am goin to be on...

I have always figured her growth to be stunted but we didn't raise her ourselves so I am really not sure of all the details of her while she was on the bottle. This is what I do know. A neighbor friend of ours had some calves that needed to be bottle raised. I don't remember exactly why but I...

I talked to her back when she had only been down a few days and she wouldn't even come take a look. I doubt if she will be interested in seeing her now that she has been down over a week. We are talking to a friend who knows a retired vet that he calls for advice and we are hoping that maybe he...

It went back right away.

O and as for her dosings. We give 5 ml of b12 every other day and gave her 10 gms of probios (the recommended dose for cows under 400 lbs). I am not sure about the wormer since DH gave it to her and I will have to ask him when he gets up. Any guesses on her weight would be appreciated. I have...

Ugh I had it all typed out and ready to post and then just exited out like a dope. Here goes again. I was mistaken when I called her a cow. It is a bad habit to call them all cows. She is a heifer. She has never even been around a bull and for the past 4 months or so she has been the only...

I did not know that about brahman cattle and that is good to know because our new bottle baby has obvious brahman in her. Her mom looked like a reg ol mutt cow and i think her daddy was a white angus cross or something. Not sure since we sold him about a month or 2 after we get him because he...

ok She is a 2 yr old (at least, this is her second winter so I am sayin shes 2) hereford heifer. She isn't a starved skeleton so she probably weighs more than I posted I am just not sure how much. I have always been bad at guessing weights but she is, in my uneducated opinion, small for her age...

The only thing we can figure is parasites. I had suspected that she might have worms and then this past sunday she went down. I wasn't sure what it was but with the help of some people in some other forums we figured she must be anemic from the parasites. She seems fine (eating and drinking...