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Calves with bad scours*Good Update!!*
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<blockquote data-quote="larryshoat" data-source="post: 488613" data-attributes="member: 6773"><p>Tabby, I'm sorry to hear you have had so much trouble, milkmaids post is right on the money, by the time we see symptoms we are already 6-8 % low on water. So if we have a 90 lb calf, 90x8%=7.2 lbs, roughly 1 gallon, that plus the rate of loss of fluids equals what we have to put back in. As you can see that is a lot of fluid to put in the stomach of a calf, thus going back to milkmaids post, she gave her calf 3 liters of what I am assuming was lactated ringers solution IV ( under the skin in the neck will work too), just trying to catch up. Your calves died from loss of fluids, and at this point re hydration is your only hope, I doubt that any antibiotic will be effective at this point. More than likely now you are in the rotavirus, coronavirus,cryptosporidia phase. Try not to beat yourself up about this, your results are typical of sale barn calves with raisers that are less experienced. The good thing is that you are quickly becoming more experienced. milkmaids vet is obviously very skilled in treating scouring calves, yours probably just does not do enough of this to be good at it.Take a good look at that milk replacer, it should be all milk no soy protein or anything like that. recommendations on milk bags are for a 100 pound Holstein calf if yours are smaller adjust accordingly. I hope some of this helps.</p><p></p><p>larry</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="larryshoat, post: 488613, member: 6773"] Tabby, I'm sorry to hear you have had so much trouble, milkmaids post is right on the money, by the time we see symptoms we are already 6-8 % low on water. So if we have a 90 lb calf, 90x8%=7.2 lbs, roughly 1 gallon, that plus the rate of loss of fluids equals what we have to put back in. As you can see that is a lot of fluid to put in the stomach of a calf, thus going back to milkmaids post, she gave her calf 3 liters of what I am assuming was lactated ringers solution IV ( under the skin in the neck will work too), just trying to catch up. Your calves died from loss of fluids, and at this point re hydration is your only hope, I doubt that any antibiotic will be effective at this point. More than likely now you are in the rotavirus, coronavirus,cryptosporidia phase. Try not to beat yourself up about this, your results are typical of sale barn calves with raisers that are less experienced. The good thing is that you are quickly becoming more experienced. milkmaids vet is obviously very skilled in treating scouring calves, yours probably just does not do enough of this to be good at it.Take a good look at that milk replacer, it should be all milk no soy protein or anything like that. recommendations on milk bags are for a 100 pound Holstein calf if yours are smaller adjust accordingly. I hope some of this helps. larry [/QUOTE]
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