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<blockquote data-quote="LGodlove" data-source="post: 470351" data-attributes="member: 7367"><p>Davisbeefmaster,</p><p>Thanks for the tip.</p><p></p><p>She's not better, but she's not worse.</p><p></p><p>Her little cellmate :lol: has the scours now (began last night), though, so I'm having a ball treating the both of them now. At least he's still sucking his bottle, hopefully that will continue.</p><p></p><p>I woke up at midnight and gave her electolytes and a nice dose of pepto. Did it again this morning at 6 a.m., and gave her the third and last dose of sulfa and plan to give electrolytes and pepto again at noon. Her buddy will get the same treatment. He is on his second dose of sulfa, his 3rd will be tomorrow morning.</p><p></p><p>I cleaned their bed the best I could and cuddled them up with hay and have a heat lamp on them.</p><p></p><p>I know most of you have said to treat her more often (i.e. every three hours), but I feel this cause more stress on her and am doing it every 6 hours consistently throughout the day and night. I've been reading about consistency in calf management and tend to agree that this is very important because they get to expect you to be there then and until they are of weaning age, this is how I feed them.</p><p></p><p>My other four who are on the other side of the pen (one is still on the bottle), the three weaned almost 8 week olds will wait at their trough for the grain now at the expected time and I bottle feed the five week old right there in the pen with them with the weaned boys and have no problems with them even attempting to steal his bottle. They ignore him and eat their grain and when he is done sucking, I give him grain too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LGodlove, post: 470351, member: 7367"] Davisbeefmaster, Thanks for the tip. She's not better, but she's not worse. Her little cellmate :lol: has the scours now (began last night), though, so I'm having a ball treating the both of them now. At least he's still sucking his bottle, hopefully that will continue. I woke up at midnight and gave her electolytes and a nice dose of pepto. Did it again this morning at 6 a.m., and gave her the third and last dose of sulfa and plan to give electrolytes and pepto again at noon. Her buddy will get the same treatment. He is on his second dose of sulfa, his 3rd will be tomorrow morning. I cleaned their bed the best I could and cuddled them up with hay and have a heat lamp on them. I know most of you have said to treat her more often (i.e. every three hours), but I feel this cause more stress on her and am doing it every 6 hours consistently throughout the day and night. I've been reading about consistency in calf management and tend to agree that this is very important because they get to expect you to be there then and until they are of weaning age, this is how I feed them. My other four who are on the other side of the pen (one is still on the bottle), the three weaned almost 8 week olds will wait at their trough for the grain now at the expected time and I bottle feed the five week old right there in the pen with them with the weaned boys and have no problems with them even attempting to steal his bottle. They ignore him and eat their grain and when he is done sucking, I give him grain too. [/QUOTE]
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