mike calf raiser":38lq9evu said:
they are not acting weak and are drinking milk very well and electrolytes also. I have been trying to give them grain just to thicken up there stool. If i just give them milk they squirt yellow water and start to get weak, so i put them back on resorb and Deliver and they get weaker. It has been very hot here laterly and yes i know that is not helping me out one bit. I talked with the vet and he had me give them yogurt and sulfatrem for four day and i talked with him and they told me that it would be the same has giving them probias.
I have cut the milk back at the feedings and give resorb and bounce back and resorb to each of them at least 3 to 4 times a day. I also have very clean water for them and they have been shaded the whole time. Also i have made avaible to them brome and also fesue/clover third cutting grass hay.
I would put them on staight Deliver for 3 feedings, no milk. This will get their stool gelled up. I would give them each Nuflor, subQ, 6cc's, or 3cc's twice in a 24 hr period. If no nuflor, try Excenel. Also I have been giving mine this gel tube called Stand up, buy it at MFA, works real good. Each calf is different however, but the important thing first is to get the scours stopped. The combo of penicilled/sulfa pills works well also, if no nuflor or excenel is available.
When my calves are born now I use this bova mune, its a antiserum which so far has worked great, no scours at all in 10 calves so far, its given within 12 hours of birth 30cc's SQ, also can be used as a treatment.
If things get desparate, as they sometimes do, I had one before I started the bovamune regimen, real weak, dehydrated, I gave the stand up gel, plus SQ lactated ringers, in several areas all over, plus deliver, and by that nite the calf was perky, begging for food, i considered that calf to be a miracle, because really once they get real weak, wobbly they are in bad shape.
Hope this helps
Gail