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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 980518" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>That's where I'm at... a couple years back I had the first case... 2 heifers... last year, 3 calves.. usually all around the 6-10 week age mark.. but now I have a 5 month old with it, and I'm wondering what this spring will be like... And being organic I don't like to medicate unneccessarily, but I do vaccinate the cows with Scourgard. We are a closed herd, once every 5 years or so we buy a bull, but otherwise we don't have a revolving door of cattle on our place which should be a good thing for "biosecurity". I am starting the cattle on a higher copper mineral mix, and since copper is important in the immune system, that might help... the 5 month old who's just getting over it now is from the 1 cow I did get blood work done on and she was REALLY low on copper... and she didn't like the minerals, it was misery to try and get her to eat them.. if I sprinkled them on grain, she wouldn't eat the grain... Finally I found something she can't resist, even with the minerals.. (sunflower cake)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 980518, member: 9096"] That's where I'm at... a couple years back I had the first case... 2 heifers... last year, 3 calves.. usually all around the 6-10 week age mark.. but now I have a 5 month old with it, and I'm wondering what this spring will be like... And being organic I don't like to medicate unneccessarily, but I do vaccinate the cows with Scourgard. We are a closed herd, once every 5 years or so we buy a bull, but otherwise we don't have a revolving door of cattle on our place which should be a good thing for "biosecurity". I am starting the cattle on a higher copper mineral mix, and since copper is important in the immune system, that might help... the 5 month old who's just getting over it now is from the 1 cow I did get blood work done on and she was REALLY low on copper... and she didn't like the minerals, it was misery to try and get her to eat them.. if I sprinkled them on grain, she wouldn't eat the grain... Finally I found something she can't resist, even with the minerals.. (sunflower cake) [/QUOTE]
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