If you can try to feed it mostly milk. It needs to get healthy.
The Udder is used to feed the newborn calf.
You shouldn't feed a newborn anything until you talk with your vet.
Then you gotta bottle feed the calf yourself until you can get the cow to accept her calf.
It is the most important thing to feed to a newborn calf because it contains lots of antibodies and immunoglobins that ensure a calf's health and survival.
NOTHING can or should replace Colostrum when feeding a newborn calf. You MUST feed a new baby calf colostrum within 24 hours after it is born. There is nothing man-made or similar than can replace colostrum.
A newborn will not eat any feed. Calves won't begin eating feed until they're at least a week old. Otherwise, you really need to feed colostrum to a newborn for the first 12 to 24 hours, then gradually switch over to milk replacer. You can introduce feed to a calf early, but don't expect it to eat it all like a mature cow will, because a calf is pretty much like a human in that it is more of a monogastric than a ruminant. This means that a calf needs to rely much more on milk than feed for the first few weeks of its life.
Once every two or three hours, just like any baby mammal.
Yes, if the mare feels the calf is a threat to her or her herd she may attack and hurt the calf. However most horses will get along OK with a newborn calf. It should be noted that the calf's mother could posse just as much if not more of a threat to the mare
A newborn Highland calf has an average weight of around 40 to 50 lbs.
A newborn calf, a baby calf or just a calf.
A newborn elephant is called a calf.
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