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<blockquote data-quote="Jaybird" data-source="post: 551591" data-attributes="member: 8440"><p>Wow, I'm new here and what a topic to start out with! If you missed the introduction, we raise both dairy and meat goats with drop calves a natural extension of excess goat milk production. I picked up a Jersey/Angus cross bull calf at the sale barn today. I'm guessing he's between 4 - 7 days old. Thin as a rail and slightly dehydrated from the 102 degree heat and sitting in a pen with other calves. His eyes, nose clear. No scours, but pooping a very white mucus type poo. If he were a goat kid, I'd think maybe a cocci was tearing up the intestinal lining, but that usually holds hands with bloat or black scours of which he has neither. I'm curious to what more experienced producers might think.</p><p></p><p>I'm also curious as to protocol for treating a new drop calf from the sale barn. We usually treat with BoSe, C&D Antitoxin and flush their eyes with colloidal silver. Lots of pink eye in that barn today (yuck). Sometimes we'll run them on a preventative round of Excenel antibiotic, but I don't like to. Any thoughts?</p><p></p><p>Thanks, Jaybird</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jaybird, post: 551591, member: 8440"] Wow, I'm new here and what a topic to start out with! If you missed the introduction, we raise both dairy and meat goats with drop calves a natural extension of excess goat milk production. I picked up a Jersey/Angus cross bull calf at the sale barn today. I'm guessing he's between 4 - 7 days old. Thin as a rail and slightly dehydrated from the 102 degree heat and sitting in a pen with other calves. His eyes, nose clear. No scours, but pooping a very white mucus type poo. If he were a goat kid, I'd think maybe a cocci was tearing up the intestinal lining, but that usually holds hands with bloat or black scours of which he has neither. I'm curious to what more experienced producers might think. I'm also curious as to protocol for treating a new drop calf from the sale barn. We usually treat with BoSe, C&D Antitoxin and flush their eyes with colloidal silver. Lots of pink eye in that barn today (yuck). Sometimes we'll run them on a preventative round of Excenel antibiotic, but I don't like to. Any thoughts? Thanks, Jaybird [/QUOTE]
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