Calves

[cow_crazy_101]

o.k. our champion show hefier calved had a bull, the calf caught scours and it died. we tried to keep it alive for 4 or 5 days but, we caught it to late. Now we put another calf on her and it has scours !! now we are think that she might have something that is giving the calf scours.what do we do? the calf is a 2month old angus X brangus. he was a bottle baby but when Izzys calf died we put him on her and now he wont suck a bottle. he is to big to tube and can't suck her as she might have something. i dont need him dehydreted and dying. what do i do?
by the way how do u all break your calves? we got a hefier from the sale barn and had her show ring broke in 4-5 days..is that good timing? bad timing?

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[*Cowgirl*]

Call your vet.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Most likely the COW is not GIVING the calves scours. Did her calf get right up & suck colostrum within a few hours of birth? Is she giving ENOUGH milk??
First calf either didn't get enough quality colostrum right from the get go or wasn't getting enough milk afterwards to keep him strong. Did you vaccinate the dam for scours prior to calving? I don't, but we don't have a scour problem on our farm. I sure would consider doing that from now on.
The 2nd calf probably "caught" the same bug the first calf had just from the environment that was contaminated from the 1st calf.
Why can't you tube it? Never too big??? You can even drench a cow if she is dehydrated. You must get liquids in him.

 

[cattleluvr18]

i dont know if this will help any but some of our bottle babies got the scours bad and were dehydrated and then they only last about a week or so. found out that they had crypto and was actually on the farm and theres nothin we can do about it. i dont know if its just for bottle babies or if calves on momma's milk can get it too.

 

[hillsdown]

Did you check her milk?Sometimes there is alot of milk but is just not good.We had a cow whose calf died at 6 days old and put another calf on the cow and it got sick with scours also so we bottle fed it.We then had the cows milk tested.Turned out she had e-coli mastitis.Never heard of that before I guess she picked up a "bug" somewhere.She was a show animal also and traveled all over the country but was not a heifer.