Haven't had scours in 6 or 7 years. New calf 2weeks old the one I mentioned that belonged to Charlie, had a white smeared butt last night and seemed kind of lethargic.
I didn't have anything but brand new bottle of la300 and expired nuflor. I went with 3 ml. Of la300. Went by feed store and got some calf scour boluses. Then I noticed it seems they have the same base ingredients. Bolus have oxytetracycline Hcl and la300 is also oxcytetracycline doesn't say Hcl.
I went back while ago and it's butt was dry, definitely wasn't lethargic, therefore I skipped the boluse. Don't think I could have caught her.
Also watched her pee twice first time a small bucket full. I was gonna pinch her hide to see if she was dehydrated but it seemed sort of pointless with all the urine flow...
From what I read about milk scours they can be caused by a calf not eating much for a while then overeating. Then the milk sours on its stomach. It's been real hot and I think the calf is laying in shade all day then pigging out. It cooled off a bunch last night and supposed to stay that way for a few days. Maybe that helps.
Have I missed anything obvious?
This calf didn't get colostrum in first 24 hours, and put me through the wringer teaching it to nurse the cow, took almost a week in the chute everyday til it caught on.
Sorry I wrote a novel, just looking for ideas if I should do something else.
I didn't have anything but brand new bottle of la300 and expired nuflor. I went with 3 ml. Of la300. Went by feed store and got some calf scour boluses. Then I noticed it seems they have the same base ingredients. Bolus have oxytetracycline Hcl and la300 is also oxcytetracycline doesn't say Hcl.
I went back while ago and it's butt was dry, definitely wasn't lethargic, therefore I skipped the boluse. Don't think I could have caught her.
Also watched her pee twice first time a small bucket full. I was gonna pinch her hide to see if she was dehydrated but it seemed sort of pointless with all the urine flow...
From what I read about milk scours they can be caused by a calf not eating much for a while then overeating. Then the milk sours on its stomach. It's been real hot and I think the calf is laying in shade all day then pigging out. It cooled off a bunch last night and supposed to stay that way for a few days. Maybe that helps.
Have I missed anything obvious?
This calf didn't get colostrum in first 24 hours, and put me through the wringer teaching it to nurse the cow, took almost a week in the chute everyday til it caught on.
Sorry I wrote a novel, just looking for ideas if I should do something else.