Missy
Well-known member
Hi everybody,
I have a little Brahman calf that is about 5-6 weeks old now. I bought him from the sales almost 4 weeks ago.
Anyhow he was doing ok apart from the tendons on his front legs were a bit contracted and he was having trouble following the nurse cow around in the paddock so i decided to bring him in and bottle feed him.Well he was doing super,drinking like a little piggy,bucking and playing(he had never done because of his legs) and just feeling really good. Well Thursday just gone we had a horrible cold day after a stinking hot day on Wednesday and when i went to feed up Thursday arvo he was laying over at the fence and wouldn't come for his milk. So i walked over got him up and he walked over to the milk and had a bit to drink. Definately was not himself. So i hit him with a good AB,put a planket on him and left him in the shelter.
Friday he was still down, but sitting up looking around and quite alert. He is pooing and weeing(while down) poor bugger tries to get up but cant) and his poo looks the best it has ever been,green and not too hard but not soft.
Well today is Sunday (Australian time) he is still down,still poooing weeing,drinking his milk though not as much as normal,eating soime grain out of my hand. He had his 4th AB needle today and i have given him approx 500mls of warm water with sugar in it. An old farmer suggested to do it. he loved it and was sucking on the syringe.
Now i am suspect to think it was a tick, so i checked him over and even though i couldn't find one,it definately doesn't mean there wasn't one,so i put tick stuff on him so as if one was feeding off him it should have died by now.
I am also suspect to beleive it could be a touch of pneumonia due to the crazy hot cold weather!
BUT today at lunch time, i found this (pic below) in his poo, what is it. Almost jelly like a fatty blob?????
I have a little Brahman calf that is about 5-6 weeks old now. I bought him from the sales almost 4 weeks ago.
Anyhow he was doing ok apart from the tendons on his front legs were a bit contracted and he was having trouble following the nurse cow around in the paddock so i decided to bring him in and bottle feed him.Well he was doing super,drinking like a little piggy,bucking and playing(he had never done because of his legs) and just feeling really good. Well Thursday just gone we had a horrible cold day after a stinking hot day on Wednesday and when i went to feed up Thursday arvo he was laying over at the fence and wouldn't come for his milk. So i walked over got him up and he walked over to the milk and had a bit to drink. Definately was not himself. So i hit him with a good AB,put a planket on him and left him in the shelter.
Friday he was still down, but sitting up looking around and quite alert. He is pooing and weeing(while down) poor bugger tries to get up but cant) and his poo looks the best it has ever been,green and not too hard but not soft.
Well today is Sunday (Australian time) he is still down,still poooing weeing,drinking his milk though not as much as normal,eating soime grain out of my hand. He had his 4th AB needle today and i have given him approx 500mls of warm water with sugar in it. An old farmer suggested to do it. he loved it and was sucking on the syringe.
Now i am suspect to think it was a tick, so i checked him over and even though i couldn't find one,it definately doesn't mean there wasn't one,so i put tick stuff on him so as if one was feeding off him it should have died by now.
I am also suspect to beleive it could be a touch of pneumonia due to the crazy hot cold weather!
BUT today at lunch time, i found this (pic below) in his poo, what is it. Almost jelly like a fatty blob?????