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Anonymous
I had a December born calf die this morning. She was healthy up until perhaps day before yesterday, when she was ignoring the hay for the most part, but did seem alert. She was nursing OK. No Cough no scours, no nasal discharge, no outward signs of illness, other than the lethargy.
Yesterday she was ignoring the hay again, and was laying in the field sunning herself. I walked to her and she did get up, and let me lead her into a smaller corrale. The Vet prescribed Baytril, A vitimin shot and an analgesic. I gave her the shots, and she walked over to a sunny location and stood for a while then laid down near a fence line watching the breatheren.
This morning she was dead.
Last December, I had a similar death, from a bottle fed calf that had been born last August. He was eating fine in a pasture, then the following say he had lethargy, drank some milk from a pail, and that evening he died.
I am feeding the cows and calves alfalfa, half a small square per cow/calf unit per day. With the rare exception the cows are not loosing too much condition.
I also freely feed Breeder Cubes once a week as a treat.
All the other calves appear healthy, but so did this one two dys ago....
Any suggestions?
Eaglewerks
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Yesterday she was ignoring the hay again, and was laying in the field sunning herself. I walked to her and she did get up, and let me lead her into a smaller corrale. The Vet prescribed Baytril, A vitimin shot and an analgesic. I gave her the shots, and she walked over to a sunny location and stood for a while then laid down near a fence line watching the breatheren.
This morning she was dead.
Last December, I had a similar death, from a bottle fed calf that had been born last August. He was eating fine in a pasture, then the following say he had lethargy, drank some milk from a pail, and that evening he died.
I am feeding the cows and calves alfalfa, half a small square per cow/calf unit per day. With the rare exception the cows are not loosing too much condition.
I also freely feed Breeder Cubes once a week as a treat.
All the other calves appear healthy, but so did this one two dys ago....
Any suggestions?
Eaglewerks
[email protected]