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Does anyone have a cheaper way to treat scours in newborn calves. The way I do it costs about $15, which is of course worth it, but if there's a cheaper way i'm all ears. What I do is first force a bottle of kaopectayte, which is just to stop the fluid loss, works great. Second I give the calf...

Does anyone have a cheaper way to treat scours in newborn calves. The way I do it costs about $15, which is of course worth it, but if there's a cheaper way i'm all ears. What I do is first force a bottle of kaopectayte, which is just to stop the fluid loss, works great. Second I give the...

That's sage advice from novaman. It's too late this time probably but if you act fast you can get something where you had nothing when you do it. Before you try it look into how it is done, and be ready to treat the calf for scours that sometimes comes with changing the food source on a little...

Maybe some would agree with that, but I suppose it depends on your situation. We do it routinely around here. The first year I got started I calved out 35 heifers, when the bank note was due it helped that instead of having dry cows I had some holstein steers to sell. I suppose if money is no...

well there's one more thing for me to watch out for I guess, I didn't realize they would go for calves. A friend of mine runs about 600 hair sheep and they really cut into his profits sometimes. The black ones will attack lambs as soon as they hit the ground and the dogs can't be in more than...

does the calf show a preference? sounds like you have a couple good ones there, probably be easy to graft a dairy calf on the one that needs a calf. I bet the calf might tell you if you pay close attention

I hear you, saves you lots if they would go on and die sometimes. You can spend tons of money and time just delaying the inevitable, been there done that. Hang in there. My season started out with a total uterus prolapse, dead calf, dead cow (cow died after the vet came, of course!) and then...

unless you have baby lambs, you don't have anything to fear from vultures, black or turkey. Turkey vultures won't even bother lambs. If you know of them feeding on or killing calves (for certain) let me know but i'll bet any deaths you have seen might could be attributed to something else...

Never appraoch a calf, unless you had to assist in birthing it for at least an hour after it is born. Let the mom bond with it. If you have to assist in the birth, do it and walk away, let the mom bond with it. I have never had a problem if I followed this, I really like to wait till she's...

One time I tagged and banded a brand new calf and it started running. Darn thing ran for through two boundary lines before it ran out of steam. The will to survive is strong, and I was a predator as it saw it. When I caught it, its heart was about to burst, and I about lost the calf. It...