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<blockquote data-quote="CattleAnnie" data-source="post: 21771" data-attributes="member: 220"><p>:idea: We went through hell a couple of years back when we had two strains of scours going through our calves. We had just moved to the new place, and the virus was apparently in the soil. The worse strain was apparantly being carried from farm to farm by ravens (or so the vet said, sent samples away to a lab to confirm a "super-bug" type of scours had made an appearance in the area). We had both E. Coli and Coccydiosis types of scours. One of the neighbours lost one calf in ten to these bugs, and in the process of trying to keep calves alive (alot of people were even using Intravenous tubing to keep their calves alive) made himself so run down he became seriously ill with a bad flu and darn near ended up in the hospital (but didn't have time to go due to the problems he was having on the ranch). </p><p> It was getting so bad for us, that we were seeing day old calves starting to become sour with the runs. Some calves became chronic, one in particular we ran the full course of treatment no less than five times (at least three days of tubing electrolytes each time). Now we just Scourguard the cows when we do our fall processing of Dectomax and 8-Way vaccines, and it's helped a bit, but we still see a few calves come down with the scours, especially when the frost starts coming out of the ground in late April/ early May. All this through spring blizzards was pretty overwhelming.</p><p> Anyway, we found an electrolyte called "CalfLyte" to be the most effective for us...had a high amount of energy and was easily mixed (some brands seemed to have less dissolvability), it keeps the calves from dehydrating and provides them with some energy. We also used boluses (sorry 'bout the spelling, sleep deprived as now entering month two of night checks) to slow down the diarrhea. We also alternated tubings of electrolytes with colostrum, to try and keep some nutrients in the little guys.</p><p>We also used an antibiotic called "Biomycin" on all the calves that were infected, it is more expensive than good ol' Penicillin, but has more of a kick to it. We only use Nuflor and Micotil on calves that display symptoms respiratory infections.</p><p> I am not saying that this will work for you, or that this is the best course of action, and agree with everyone that your veterinarian is the most accurate source of information in diagnosing and treatment. This is only what was effective for us. Best of luck to you!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CattleAnnie, post: 21771, member: 220"] :idea: We went through hell a couple of years back when we had two strains of scours going through our calves. We had just moved to the new place, and the virus was apparently in the soil. The worse strain was apparantly being carried from farm to farm by ravens (or so the vet said, sent samples away to a lab to confirm a "super-bug" type of scours had made an appearance in the area). We had both E. Coli and Coccydiosis types of scours. One of the neighbours lost one calf in ten to these bugs, and in the process of trying to keep calves alive (alot of people were even using Intravenous tubing to keep their calves alive) made himself so run down he became seriously ill with a bad flu and darn near ended up in the hospital (but didn't have time to go due to the problems he was having on the ranch). It was getting so bad for us, that we were seeing day old calves starting to become sour with the runs. Some calves became chronic, one in particular we ran the full course of treatment no less than five times (at least three days of tubing electrolytes each time). Now we just Scourguard the cows when we do our fall processing of Dectomax and 8-Way vaccines, and it's helped a bit, but we still see a few calves come down with the scours, especially when the frost starts coming out of the ground in late April/ early May. All this through spring blizzards was pretty overwhelming. Anyway, we found an electrolyte called "CalfLyte" to be the most effective for us...had a high amount of energy and was easily mixed (some brands seemed to have less dissolvability), it keeps the calves from dehydrating and provides them with some energy. We also used boluses (sorry 'bout the spelling, sleep deprived as now entering month two of night checks) to slow down the diarrhea. We also alternated tubings of electrolytes with colostrum, to try and keep some nutrients in the little guys. We also used an antibiotic called "Biomycin" on all the calves that were infected, it is more expensive than good ol' Penicillin, but has more of a kick to it. We only use Nuflor and Micotil on calves that display symptoms respiratory infections. I am not saying that this will work for you, or that this is the best course of action, and agree with everyone that your veterinarian is the most accurate source of information in diagnosing and treatment. This is only what was effective for us. Best of luck to you! [/QUOTE]
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