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What infections are you having in your herd, and how often do you see them?

My first thought is to look in her mouth for any cuts or something stuck in it that would cause painful swallowing. Then of course, rabies causes difficult swallowing, so might want to be careful. Also depends on where you live and if rabies happens much in cattle there. Good to ask a vet...

My first thought about drinking out of ponds into which cattle are dumping manure, is parasites. Sure the cattle can survive, but will it reduce performance? Not all ponds are the same. If water is flowing through them and flushing them out, obviously better. A quick search revealed...

As others have said, you had better have a vet involved. That can be cheaper than feeding 30 cows all year for nothing, and now even losing the cows. I don't even understand the issue. Legs normally come first. Were the calves dead and then you pulled them? Were they too big? Or...

Strange phenomenon. For some reason those who bust tail to take care of their animals end up with better luck than those who don't. :)

Might want to rename these threads, "Owners who give cattle good opportunities to kill themselves". By failing to remove metal on which they can get cut, or failing to fence off places in which they can get stuck. With cattle, if it can happen, it will. It is only a matter of time.

Be aware of the increased risk of coccidiosis when consuming feed with manure in it.

One thought is hardware disease - wire or nail or something in the forestomach. Which can be made worse in late pregnancy as the fetus pushes everything forward. And calving really puts pressure on things and can make it worse. They normally stand with arched back, though. Another...

Many different causes of scours. Unfortunately, antibiotics as you suggest, do not work for viruses. May help with secondary bacterial infections, but not if severe viral insult. And antibiotics are no substitute for a functioning immune system, so if they did not get colostrum, much...

Could be a lot of things. One thing popped into my head - a heart defect. Could result in sluggishness and poor growth. Did the vet listen to her heart with a stethoscope? Would hear a heart murmur if such was the case.

The life cycle of the coccidia is being completed when diarrhea appears. So I wouldn't give your treatment all the credit for the cure - most would get better anyway, even without treatment. http://www.cabnr.unr.edu/resources/catt ... 001/06.htm

BTW, I'm one of those guys who babies my few pet heifers. Was 10 below with wind chill the other night, and were they in the shed with nice deep, dry straw? No, they were over in the pine trees. I figure that's probably their natural instinct to get out of the wind. Plus, I think...

Cows are heat producers in their rumens. Think of a steaming compost pile. Which is why summers can be harder than winters, and you need to give them every advantage to take the heat, like not being black. This guy has figured out how to heat houses with cow heat. Read more...

Hmmmm, my daughter has a wart. Guess I need to get those pliers out. How much does it need to bleed?

Seems that most people can only think of drugs as a way to control disease. I know drugs are fun, but they are the least effective means of controlling this. If we are talking about coccidiosis, natural means of control are most effective. You seem to be focused on drug therapy, but once an...

Hard to assess everything over the internet, but from the history, the obvious problem is in the lungs. I suspect that her stretching out makes it easier to breathe with scarred lungs. Sometimes just after getting up, animals stumble alittle from legs going numb. Don't know if she lays...

The problem with being natural is that it isn't natural to ship off a hundred calves a year that are loaded with minerals taken out of the soil, and you don't get them back. Maybe if you could get the sewage from the consumers returned, it would be more natural. Seems that if you keep sending...

The longer you treat, the more time it has to possibly get better on it's own and for you to claim success. The way to tell if the treatment is effective is to set up a study with a treated group and a control group randomly selected and see if the treated and non-treated are any different. A...

I would advise you to stop spending so much time looking at her stools. :) This is a fairly common question. As long as the calf is bright and alert and active and no significant diarrhea, I would ignore it. As to why there is some blood, sometimes there can be some inflammation in the...

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