Thanks for the tip Raven. but unfortunately the thing I also knew was coming did. I tubed her 3 times yesterday, it sucked like crazy this am, it wouldn't eat at noon and I had an interview... came back this evening and it wouldn't suck. It had cleaned itself up in the backend where the tail was missing eeeewwww. it had some backbone-ish area showing and it was full of maggots. Wouldn't/couldnt fight that for a calf that was dying like that anyway and so we put her down. :cry2:

I knew it would come to this, being she ate the first time but not the second...
We always have good luck tubing a calf when we are checking a lot and know when they are born, but this one was late, and we thought it had...
anyway, when they haven't had clostrum, and suck one bottle but won't others, I know the end result... but I still have to try. All I did was get myself & kids in love with another gonner. oh well, guess they know the facts of life. Tomorrow will be better right? :lol: