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<blockquote data-quote="Penkert4" data-source="post: 1054870" data-attributes="member: 21171"><p>OK, long story, but really need to figure out why these calves are dying and how to save them if at all possible. Here goes...</p><p>My family bought a calf (only two or three days old, if that) from a local dairy, brought it home, gave it a bottle (1 full cup - the one that comes in the bag - of the Dumor Calf Starter in a 2 quart bottle) that it ate fine. The next morning, it didn't want to eat, but we managed to get about half the bottle into it anyway. My dad was home all day and went out periodically to check on it - it hadn't wanted to get up, was really wobbly when we lifted it to eat, that kind of thing - and he just wanted to see how it was doing. It started scouring really bad - pure liquid, smelled like rotten milk, really thin-looking milk, basically. By the following morning, the calf was dead. We thought maybe it hadn't had colostrum, so we took it back out to the dairy we bought it from to dispose of the body, and got another (supposedly older, with colostrum) calf. That calf is now doing the same thing. We bought a bag of electrolytes and some tetracycline at the feed store, and have been trying to save the poor thing. </p><p>Yesterday evening, we went to a different dairy and bought another calf. It was fine, jumped around and mooed in it's new pen, that kind of thing. We fed it last night (from a clean bottle and clean nipple), and this morning, same thing! Doesn't want to eat, but we got about 3/4 of a bottle down it this evening. (My mom fed this morning, so I'm not sure how much it ate.) </p><p>My question is this: why are these calves dying? Could the bag of calf starter be bad? Is there something we're not giving them that we should be? They have buckets of clean water in their pens, as well. Any suggestions are appreciated, please and thank you!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Penkert4, post: 1054870, member: 21171"] OK, long story, but really need to figure out why these calves are dying and how to save them if at all possible. Here goes... My family bought a calf (only two or three days old, if that) from a local dairy, brought it home, gave it a bottle (1 full cup - the one that comes in the bag - of the Dumor Calf Starter in a 2 quart bottle) that it ate fine. The next morning, it didn't want to eat, but we managed to get about half the bottle into it anyway. My dad was home all day and went out periodically to check on it - it hadn't wanted to get up, was really wobbly when we lifted it to eat, that kind of thing - and he just wanted to see how it was doing. It started scouring really bad - pure liquid, smelled like rotten milk, really thin-looking milk, basically. By the following morning, the calf was dead. We thought maybe it hadn't had colostrum, so we took it back out to the dairy we bought it from to dispose of the body, and got another (supposedly older, with colostrum) calf. That calf is now doing the same thing. We bought a bag of electrolytes and some tetracycline at the feed store, and have been trying to save the poor thing. Yesterday evening, we went to a different dairy and bought another calf. It was fine, jumped around and mooed in it's new pen, that kind of thing. We fed it last night (from a clean bottle and clean nipple), and this morning, same thing! Doesn't want to eat, but we got about 3/4 of a bottle down it this evening. (My mom fed this morning, so I'm not sure how much it ate.) My question is this: why are these calves dying? Could the bag of calf starter be bad? Is there something we're not giving them that we should be? They have buckets of clean water in their pens, as well. Any suggestions are appreciated, please and thank you!! [/QUOTE]
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