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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 916052" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>Pepto -bismal is designed for non-ruminants. I have some doubts that it would work on a ruminant animal in the same way that it works on us since by the time that it gets to where the problem is(if it ever does) it's to late. I would guess that that did more harm than good since it likely kept what nutrition he did get from digesting while the damage was going out the back end... I could be wrong and I'd like to know if I am. I don't have a pepto bismal label in front of me so it's hard to say...</p><p> </p><p>Jersey calves die because today is Monday. That's the whole point of the jersey cow, TONS of nutrition designed to feed a tiny little calf or in most cases a milk machine. In order to feed a jersey calf you have to provide it with fat and protien levels similar to what mommy is capable of, NOT what is in your bag of milk replacer. Take a fifty pound calf living by itself that's getting half the fat and protien that it needs in it's diet and add a cold night and you have a dead calf on your hands. </p><p>Fat is ENERGY. Little tiny baby's need that alot worse than big strapping hundred pounders do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 916052, member: 14661"] Pepto -bismal is designed for non-ruminants. I have some doubts that it would work on a ruminant animal in the same way that it works on us since by the time that it gets to where the problem is(if it ever does) it's to late. I would guess that that did more harm than good since it likely kept what nutrition he did get from digesting while the damage was going out the back end... I could be wrong and I'd like to know if I am. I don't have a pepto bismal label in front of me so it's hard to say... Jersey calves die because today is Monday. That's the whole point of the jersey cow, TONS of nutrition designed to feed a tiny little calf or in most cases a milk machine. In order to feed a jersey calf you have to provide it with fat and protien levels similar to what mommy is capable of, NOT what is in your bag of milk replacer. Take a fifty pound calf living by itself that's getting half the fat and protien that it needs in it's diet and add a cold night and you have a dead calf on your hands. Fat is ENERGY. Little tiny baby's need that alot worse than big strapping hundred pounders do. [/QUOTE]
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