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    Bottle Babies and Medicated Milk Replacer

    Here's the ingredient list from the label. It might be a little jumbled because the label is two columns but the text editor didn't format it that way........From what I can tell, the little bit that they are being overmedicated shouldn't be enough to be detrimental to them - should it? For...
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    Bottle Babies and Medicated Milk Replacer

    So, we got some bottle babies this week. Due to common issues of survival of these calves, we opted to use Dumor medicated (10 mg oxytetracycline per pound) milk replacer. The label states .05 mg to .1 mg of oxytetracycline per pound of body weight per day. The label also has directions for an...
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    antibiotics and other drugs - for newbies *updated 11/26/14*

    So, we got some bottle babies this week. Due to common issues of survival of these calves, we opted to use Dumor medicated (10 mg oxytetracycline per pound) milk replacer. The label states .05 mg to .1 mg of oxytetracycline per pound of body weight per day. The label also has directions for...
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    Possible botched banding

    Well, we gave them all a course of LA200. During the last dose, and after reading several replies, we checked temperatures and did a close up inspection. Don't know if it was from the LA200, or if we were just alarmed, but none of them seemed to be swollen above the band, none of them had a...
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    Possible botched banding

    We just got our first two calves in September. We got these guys in early November. They were born late May to very early June. We were just discussing last week that we need to get a thermometer - next trip to supply store gets it done! At any rate - we both work day jobs and we were giving...
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    Possible botched banding

    Thank you so much - that eases my mind quite a bit. I am still concerned though about the swelling and discoloration of the skin above the band - any thoughts there?
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    Possible botched banding

    Hello there: I've been reading many of these posts for some time now. We finally got calves and are up and running. Of course we have had some issues along the way - but here's one I could use some advice on. We bought three steer calves from a rancher that banded them on 11/3/07, the day...
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