kenny thomas
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But my question is why IM instead of subQThe bloat in calves that age is usually caused by "over eating disease" or Enterotoxemia. LA takes the infection out. The vets here might explain more eloquently……
But my question is why IM instead of subQThe bloat in calves that age is usually caused by "over eating disease" or Enterotoxemia. LA takes the infection out. The vets here might explain more eloquently……
Can't answer for Gcreek, but I would do IM because it works faster than subqBut my question is why IM instead of subQ
Ok, thanks. I can see the need for speed in this case. Im just terrible to fuss about using SQ everytime possible.Can't answer for Gcreek, but I would do IM because it works faster than subq
Intestinal blood blockageI thought enterotoxemia occurred in the abomasum, not the rumen. I do know it is caused by the sudden build up of bacteria in the stomach.
This calf is ten weeks old and should be out of the woods for abomasal bloat.
I really don't know much about this Dave but from memory Oxytetracycline goes through the liver and is excreted through the gut and can affect the bacteria there so this may be the rationale for using it.The bloat in calves that age is usually caused by "over eating disease" or Enterotoxemia. LA takes the infection out. The vets here might explain more eloquently……
Works for us. We don't see many of them anymore since we started giving cows a cheap clostridial vaccine pre calving in conjunction with scour shot.I really don't know much about this Dave but from memory Oxytetracycline goes through the liver and is excreted through the gut and can affect the bacteria there so this may be the rationale for using it.
Ken
I would use castor oil if was me to get the guts moving. Mineral oil doesn't do that. Not saying oil of any kind will solve the problem, just pointing out that mineral oil is just a lubricant, castor oil kicks things into gear.Thanks for posting this. I have a 2 month old calf that also seems bloated. Comes and goes. Definitely gassy. Farts like a cow. I saw some diarrhea yesterday. Always seems alert and active. I'm going to give her some LA200 today and some mineral oil in case it's enterotoxemia as has been discussed. That said, when I research that it sure seems like that's just a calf killer - you wake up and they are dead. My calf has had it off and on for a couple weeks. Also, it seems to have to do with a calf overeating or surge eating - which also doesn't make sense for me because this is a calf on a first calf heifer and they are always together.
I would give about 3 oz. To a small calf, double for a calf 8-10 weeks. Seems to work, haven't been able to attribute any deaths directly to it anyway.Silver, is there any rule on how much you should give?
If you are with them as much as we are, you will see a calf kicking at its belly, flopping on its side and kicking more. Catch them then and you will save them.Thanks for posting this. I have a 2 month old calf that also seems bloated. Comes and goes. Definitely gassy. Farts like a cow. I saw some diarrhea yesterday. Always seems alert and active. I'm going to give her some LA200 today and some mineral oil in case it's enterotoxemia as has been discussed. That said, when I research that it sure seems like that's just a calf killer - you wake up and they are dead. My calf has had it off and on for a couple weeks. Also, it seems to have to do with a calf overeating or surge eating - which also doesn't make sense for me because this is a calf on a first calf heifer and they are always together.
If you have not done so, I would get that calf a shot of 7-way vaccine. Something like this:Yeah, this must be something else. Chewing cud, nursing, grazing, no belling kicking or laying on side, no evidence of pain at all, being totally normal. When I first started watching here I kinda thought she was a chronic bloater - but too young and pasture too grassy for that really.
Got it in the chute just now - lots of gas, putrid smelling "stool".
Got the oxy in her, some probiotics - which the vet swears by - and the mineral oil. Vet wonders if it's Coccidia - which we do get in wet years in calves this age. But I've never seen the gas with Coccidia like that. Vet also kinda sorta advised against the mineral oil going forward if the diarrhea is already there.
Any blood in her stool?Vet wonders if it's Coccidia
To.me anyway, it just looked like that calf need to take a massive poop!This calf is around 10 weeks old and noticed this morning bloated looking.
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