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By any chance are the dead ones in the 2 year old to 4 year old age group? And any chance that you have had a swing in temperature lately? Hot to cooler or vice-versa? Quick pneumonia also comes to mind... sometimes you can hear raspy breathing (snotty nose). Normally weather "stress"...

The high grass likely helped irritate the eye in the first place... if she's tame, plop her favorite treat down (grass from the other side of the fence or some nice hay) into a corner of a gate let her walk-in, squeeze her closed in the gate with a pipe behind her arse to keep her from backing...

:nod: -- if you've invested this much time and energy into the little bugger, you might as well give him some probiotics for a few bucks out of the tube... his stomach is most assuredly out of balance Give him a squirt of that and some patience to see if he has the drive in him to make it...

Maybe mites... and they are rubbing on trees, barb wire, etc. to scratch? Typically a fever, they will lose hair around their ears.

If that little girl had foot rot (or puncture wound of the foot) it could be that the infection stopped in that joint since she is tiny...if so, you will feel a hard arthritic mass there at the bones. Check the temperature, if she has no temp - do nothing, if she has a temperature - treat her...

Looks like we will have more to discuss than "open" or "bred" in the next month ;-) Thanks

Our vet says that the little calves don't operate with their own immune system until they are about 4 months of age. The day old calves only get the following out here: - ear tag - weighed - BoSe (we are selenium deficient) - TSV2 intranasal to prevent pneumonia (and it comes in 1-dose vials)

Quick pneumonia? Sudden weather change from hot to cold or cold to hot?... wreaks havoc and sometimes isn't really noticed -- just a little cough one day, dead the next.

We vaccinate the calves with TSV-2 intranasal vaccine at birth for pneumonia The swing temps this year have been hard (no shipping involved) lots of neighbors lost animals. Our vet came out and gave us some hard antibiotics to treat all yearlings to 2 year olds due to the 40 degree temperature...

Abscessed tooth? Do you have foxtails where you live that could have embedded in? ...you need to bring her in without stressing her out too much to take a looksie...

So you're saying you have given some 3-D brands? (when they slide we call it 3-D... it happens) Hold it on and rock it/roll it until you get a nice copper color (baseball glove, caramel, etc.)... and yes they will peel off after the fact but it stays... ...nothing like the smell of burnt hair...

Could have been foot rot... Stay up on the antibiotic so that the infection is killed and doesn't settle in a joint.

Good point - and possible

:nod: that's what I was thinking... February + 40 days + 283 days = 12/21 a LOT early, but maybe... Any chance you can convince her that she can eat all by herself in your catch pen for a day or two and then close the gate behind her?

Temperature of the calf is _______ ? Reason I ask is that the loss of hair around the ears is "typically" an indication of a high grade fever... sounding like anti-biotics would be in order. How old is the calf?

If the calf was "bloating" and you were tubing her -- you would have relieved the gas upon insertion of the tube... thus giving it a path of no resistance and it would have burped out of the tube... At 4 days old it was too early for bacteria or other to have developed and taken her down...

As said here often --> if you're going to have livestock, you're going to have dead stock That being said, you did your best with the best you knew at the time and that's all a person can do. For the next time, do some searching on here about scours, plenty of fine threads with good advice...

Interesting... he could have just gotten a "hot section" of grass and/or could just be genetically prone to bloating... something to do with the distance from the last rib to how far the rumen is that allows some animals to bloat more easily. Make sure you roll him up onto his haunches... this...

Aaahhhh the beefmaster... all the black angus around us have eye patches for summer... our gals and guys keep grazing in the sun... ...gotta love the disease resistance that a little brahman influence can bring ya' - We do! 8)

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