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Thank you all for your support. We got two more baby calves last night and I'm trying Larry Shoat's idea of giving them penicillin and the TSV2 up the nose. They seem to be doing alright, but it's only day 2. The price was right at the stock sale. We got a heifer calf about 55lbs (she's...

Got to have a good sense of humor to make it in this business. I hope she makes it. The temperature rising is a very good thing. Got to go hunting now . . .

After assessing Loverboy's condition this morning, he went to Cow Heaven at about 7 o'clock this morning. I want to thank everyone here for their help and advice. I disagree with those here that have said hay is detrimental to calves this young. I have four others that are doing great. I...

I got my boy up this evening and gave him his last shot of banamine and tubed him with 2 quarts of milk replacer with another dose of the PowerPunch added. Afterwards he amazed me by going straight to his water and drinking and drinking. He then ate the hay I put in his mouth and went for some...

Angie, Swimmer's Ear is the name of the product that I use on my dog which contains the isopropyl alcohol--I was not referring to the name of the infection, but the product. Yes, a dog will shake its head to get the water out, so I would definitely say that this is the reason your cow is...

I bet cattle can get water in their ears just like a person or dog from swimming does. My dog likes to swim and I always treat her afterwards with a good dose of Swimmer's Ear in each ear to dry out the ear canal. I would call the vet and ask him about it. I know Swimmer's Ear contains...

I'm sorry to hear about your calf. You did great with the rest of them, so you have beaten the odds. It does seem logical to give them all of the stress at one time, instead of dragging it out because they are going to have the shipping fever anyway. I'm sure that you are much more...

Yesterday morning I tubed him with 2 quarts of milk and gave him yogurt at dinnertime and then some bounce back. I let him out for exercise in the afternoon while the sun was out and he walked around some. I decided not to tube him with the 2 quarts in the evening because his belly was large...

I have a question, is the reason why you are supposed to give shots in the neck totally because of ruining the meat or is there another reason like the medicine is delivered faster via the neck?

Thank you for the information, Larry. Believe me, I cannot even fathom having an operation that raises hundreds of these little buggers. This is a very tough job (and dirty too--needs Mike Rowe from TV :) , especially when you have calves with the stinkin' scours.

Thanks for posting the pics for me, Limousingirl. I weaned my three oldest ones last evening, adding additional grain for them and they have free access to water. The black one with the swirls on him in the pic just mooed to beat the band--he was the most unhappy about this change :) Last...

I want to ask Larry and Milkmaid a question. I agree that the pneumonia started 2-weeks ago. I have a now 3-week old calf I got at the sale barn, and am treating him now for it. My question is this: when I buy a calf at the sale barn and transport him to my pen, what is the best possible...

He weighs about 65 pounds, do you think tubing him with a third bottle a day would be ok, because he will not drink it. He does, however, drink his 6 a.m. bottle and 6 p.m. bottle and take his grain. I have tried giving him a bottle at noon, but all he'll do is drink about a pint of it.

Alice, I know you didn't mean anything by it. I have really enjoyed the company of these lil fellers and you just hate to see any of them hurt or down. I know one thing, five of the little buggers is enough at a time for me to take on (three would have been best, but you know when you are at...

Yes, I know, but because I've given him a lot of shots there and he's so bony and has bumps on his neck where I have given him shots previously, I thought it was better to do it in the meat of the buttocks (for the intramuscular banamine) and under the skin for the nuflor.

Well, I called the vet and they gave me 5mL of Nuflor, which I just administered, and a three-day dose of banamine, and I gave him his first dose of that as well. Vet said if he doesn't show improvement after this, he's probably not going to make it. Loverboy was lying down in the pen when I...

I don't know how to put pics here, so I uploaded them to my gallery. I know one thing, I've been doing this since mid-October and it's given me quite an education and a much greater appreciation for people out there who raise baby calves. My prior experience is with red and black angus cattle...

This morning he drank 3 pints and I gave him the 3 tablespoons of grain. I can hear that darn rattle in his throat when he sucks and he pauses every couple seconds to hack out a bad cough with his tongue out. I appreciate all the posts. 1848, I'm definitely going to quit putting him out...

I have a now three-week old beef/holstein calf named Loverboy. During the first week of life, he developed scours/pnemonia and I gave him shots of LA200 and pepto. He was rather small and his umbilical hung off him and had blood where it was attached and I put iodine on it. He has four other...