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<blockquote data-quote="Farmhand" data-source="post: 73338" data-attributes="member: 1292"><p>Iodine will stop navel infection. We calve in Jan-Feb in a barn. As Medic24 said that is where the issue is. Those babies hunker down for the cold and don't pick where they lay too well so run a higher risk for navel infection. The June calves and the Aug-Sep calves are born on open pasture. Those we iodine only if we have to catch them up for something else or the weather is wet when they are born. Our problem was we had one born on open pasture that wasn't nursing the back quarters so we moved them into a barn to make it handy to work with them. Had hogs in there before and the little guy got navel infection even though the barn had been cleaned. The navel swells first and then it spreads to all the area underneath and is very painful no matter what. Ended up having to antibiotic and then sprayed iodine 2x a day until it cleared up. If left untreated it eventually deforms their joints and they can't walk. Mother bought one at a sale thinking she could save it (she felt sorry for it) but it was too far gone. Ended up having to put it down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmhand, post: 73338, member: 1292"] Iodine will stop navel infection. We calve in Jan-Feb in a barn. As Medic24 said that is where the issue is. Those babies hunker down for the cold and don't pick where they lay too well so run a higher risk for navel infection. The June calves and the Aug-Sep calves are born on open pasture. Those we iodine only if we have to catch them up for something else or the weather is wet when they are born. Our problem was we had one born on open pasture that wasn't nursing the back quarters so we moved them into a barn to make it handy to work with them. Had hogs in there before and the little guy got navel infection even though the barn had been cleaned. The navel swells first and then it spreads to all the area underneath and is very painful no matter what. Ended up having to antibiotic and then sprayed iodine 2x a day until it cleared up. If left untreated it eventually deforms their joints and they can't walk. Mother bought one at a sale thinking she could save it (she felt sorry for it) but it was too far gone. Ended up having to put it down. [/QUOTE]
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