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Anonymous
I have posted several messges about a sick calf I recently had. He died several days ago. He was an unusally large Holstein calf. I bought him from someone who got him at a sale barn. For the first two weeks or so he seemed fine, though he had some drainage in one of his eyes and minor nasal drainage. I gave him penicillin over a period of four days . He seemed to improve. Two days later I found him down Sunday morning and he could not get up on his on. I helped him up and he could stand on his own. Over the next four days I would help him up, and he was taking two bottles aday with no problem. On Thursday my wife took him half a bottle and she said he almost got up on his own. Thursday night, however, I went to feed him and he could not stand up, even with my assistance and would not take a bottle. When I went to give him fluids with a tube at midnight Thurday, he died. He never scoured, did not have any type of discharge, did not have any sores and did smell any worse than a typical calf. I was worried that this might be black leg, since he could not get up, but he did not seem to meet the symptoms. Can anyone tell me what might have caused him to die. Thanks, Keith
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