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<blockquote data-quote="alisonb" data-source="post: 1617722" data-attributes="member: 13050"><p>Nutritional scours (cream/light yellow) usually occurs when the calf drinks too much milk. It may mean that the mother has a lot of milk or she did not manage to feed the calf for some time(weather etc), when she did calf was cold & hungry and drank too much over filling it's abomasum which in turn overflowed, without clotting, into the intestines.The result, a watery scour. Stress and the quality of colostrum can also cause scours. Nutritional scours mostly clears up on its own once a routine is set, without our intervention, but I have also seen it progress to an infectious scour.</p><p></p><p>Lisagrantb - How long has calf been scouring? Is it still drinking strongly or is it weak? Any signs of blood/mucous in diarrhea? </p><p></p><p>If it is strong and still drinking it may be getting over it on it's own...sometime catching it to give it electrolytes stresses it more than anything else. Just monitor closely, at any sign of weakness give electrolytes.</p><p></p><p>If it is showing signs of dehydration, has a temperature and is weakening start electrolytes immediately. Give calf electrolytes and then wait about a half hour before you allow it to drink milk. By doing this you are making sure that when it drinks milk, the milk clots normally in the abomasum and is not watered down by the electrolytes.</p><p></p><p>All the best!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alisonb, post: 1617722, member: 13050"] Nutritional scours (cream/light yellow) usually occurs when the calf drinks too much milk. It may mean that the mother has a lot of milk or she did not manage to feed the calf for some time(weather etc), when she did calf was cold & hungry and drank too much over filling it's abomasum which in turn overflowed, without clotting, into the intestines.The result, a watery scour. Stress and the quality of colostrum can also cause scours. Nutritional scours mostly clears up on its own once a routine is set, without our intervention, but I have also seen it progress to an infectious scour. Lisagrantb - How long has calf been scouring? Is it still drinking strongly or is it weak? Any signs of blood/mucous in diarrhea? If it is strong and still drinking it may be getting over it on it's own...sometime catching it to give it electrolytes stresses it more than anything else. Just monitor closely, at any sign of weakness give electrolytes. If it is showing signs of dehydration, has a temperature and is weakening start electrolytes immediately. Give calf electrolytes and then wait about a half hour before you allow it to drink milk. By doing this you are making sure that when it drinks milk, the milk clots normally in the abomasum and is not watered down by the electrolytes. All the best! [/QUOTE]
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