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when the elderly lady called, her first words were, the calf smells. i really don't know what smell a calf is supposed to have, so she says not the whole calf, justs its little bottom. so after i finished laughing, i told her it's not supposed to smell like roses. she said you could smell it...

sorry to hear you are having this problem. best you can do is keep them hydrated. it's one of those things that need to "run its course", and lasts 7-10 days. i just wanted to remind you to wash your hands well. in the past few years there have been two gals that got it from around here, and...

the neighbor got a bottle calf from us a couple weeks ago. the calf is 3 weeks old, and a very aggressive eater. she called this evening and said the calf has a real smelly manure. it is getting its 2 bottles of milk, and 3 to 4 quarts of water. 2 cups of calf starter pellets, and a little...

perhaps they should find a way to test cattle at a more reasonable rate. I do have all of my cattle tested when I buy them. by the time the vet comes out to gather blood to test, sends it to the lab, "reads" the results, it's a little over $8 a head. had a feed delivery guy last week, tell me...

as for the calves/cows not going under the rub. hang it high at first so it's not even close to touching them. Every few days lower it a bit. in a week or so they think it's great and will stand and rub their back on it. I have found my cattle won't eat the sulfer blocks. last year I put...

I would tube feed it, if it won't take the bottle, just to keep him going. Give him some probios also. with pen and no food, he'll have an upset gut for sure. I would guess that is the reason someone took him to the sale barn, is exactly what your dealing with. keep food and water infront of...

I have had an occasional cow in the summer grazing period with pink eye, in the past, that has cleared up with a dose of LA or Penn. and a patch. I now have heifers with January/February calves in a lot, and have had to treat 4 cows and 3 calves with in the past 3 weeks for what appears to be...

warpaint, what is with the WD40? do you spray that on the brand site, or the brander?

had the vet out a few weeks ago to treat a heifer for retained placenta. I had just started calving and had lost the first 2 calves, they came a month early. Vet took blood samples from the two heifers that were open. came back as high titers for both BVD 1 and 2. he is ASSUMING they came in...

nasco has a resucitator for $80. Looks like a plastic cup with a hand pump connected to it. Never used one so don't know much else.

scour Bos 9 and 4 are both to be given to bred cows, so that should never cause an abortion. There has been a lot of lepto around here. It is carried by rats and deer also. So rats hanging out in the silage pile can be a danger to bred cows. A dairy 2 miles away just found out they have...

hopefully someone will chime in here for you soon. But I think there is a disease, illness, virous, etc. called red nose, maybe it's BRD? As far as the scours some boluses and electrolytes is a great place to start. Did his nose get frozen when he was born? I have seen some blister and peel...

this falls under my catagory of "just when you think you've seen it all!" First year we had cattle the Mrs kept a steer for freezer beef. Kinda a "pet". Had him in the calving pasture till we saw him letting a calf nurse. Then we put him in the pasture with the cow/calf pairs and bulls...

that's great to know, but what side of the neck is the juglar?

mscamp, your death scours sounds like cryptosporidium.

I thought the theory was that the cattle eating the sulfur in the summer when it's hot makes the cows themselves smell bad, so the ticks and mosquitos stay away. I have to put a trace salt block out because the cattle seem to detest the sulfer blocks and eat very little. But I have not noticed...

Lets try to get along on here. Maybe rwright is a 12 year old with his first show heifer, you don't know him, so lighten up. Now, my first step is to take away her free choice hay. Offer her the feed in the am, with about 12 hours to eat it, then scoop it out. Do the same the next am. How...

07/29/2005 More Cases Of Livestock Anthrax In South Dakota State officials say anthrax is suspected of killing some 200 head of livestock in South Dakota. The Agriculture Department says anthrax has been confirmed in six herds and is suspected in four others. Anthrax is caused by a bacteria...

I have a pasture on the SD side, and got a premisis ID in March. Have tried to show it to the guys at the sale barn a few times with the response of "we don't use that" Same with the BQA certification. Nobody seems real interested in it. Maybe it will be worth something by sale time that I...

I also put the lime around the waterer when the feed lot gets soupy. It's supposed to help dry and harden their hooves. I would maybe suggest to your vet if you see no improvement to look for hairy heel or strawberry warts. Usually a couple shots of LA fixes up hoof rot. Those cuts and...