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calf scouring and tried everything need help please
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<blockquote data-quote="Alice" data-source="post: 258747" data-attributes="member: 3873"><p>How are they acting? Are they acting weak or sick? Will they drink milk and an hour or so later drink electrolytes? What color are the scours? What consistency? Are they eating grain?</p><p></p><p>Unless you know the milk is causing the scours, I, myself, wouldn't pull them off it. Or, I'd give them milk at one feeding and electrolytes at another. The optimum would be to feed milk, an hour or so later feed electrolytes...then in the evening feed them milk, and and hour or so later electrolytes.</p><p></p><p>What's the weather like there? If it's hot, make sure they stay in the shade.</p><p></p><p>I, myself, would get some spectam (it's red pig scour medicine) and give them 10 ccs at each feeding. And I'd dang sure squirt the ProBios down their throats, especially after all of the antibiotics you've given them.</p><p></p><p>Have the calves had scours their whole lives...well, at least, say after they turned a week old. If they're 3 weeks old, I, myself, would be pleased...my calves normally were ok after they turned 2 weeks old...and if they scoured later, I'd feed them milk thru it...especially if they were eating dry feed. Dry feed helps bind them up.</p><p></p><p>Now, if they've got Ecoli, or something like that, your vet should be able to culture it and find out. </p><p></p><p>I, myself, would not be real, real worried about it IF they are not acting sick, not looking dehydrated, and they are still taking the bottle and eating feed. BUT THAT'S JUST ME.</p><p></p><p>Alice</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alice, post: 258747, member: 3873"] How are they acting? Are they acting weak or sick? Will they drink milk and an hour or so later drink electrolytes? What color are the scours? What consistency? Are they eating grain? Unless you know the milk is causing the scours, I, myself, wouldn't pull them off it. Or, I'd give them milk at one feeding and electrolytes at another. The optimum would be to feed milk, an hour or so later feed electrolytes...then in the evening feed them milk, and and hour or so later electrolytes. What's the weather like there? If it's hot, make sure they stay in the shade. I, myself, would get some spectam (it's red pig scour medicine) and give them 10 ccs at each feeding. And I'd dang sure squirt the ProBios down their throats, especially after all of the antibiotics you've given them. Have the calves had scours their whole lives...well, at least, say after they turned a week old. If they're 3 weeks old, I, myself, would be pleased...my calves normally were ok after they turned 2 weeks old...and if they scoured later, I'd feed them milk thru it...especially if they were eating dry feed. Dry feed helps bind them up. Now, if they've got Ecoli, or something like that, your vet should be able to culture it and find out. I, myself, would not be real, real worried about it IF they are not acting sick, not looking dehydrated, and they are still taking the bottle and eating feed. BUT THAT'S JUST ME. Alice [/QUOTE]
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