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<blockquote data-quote="Arnold Ziffle" data-source="post: 50818" data-attributes="member: 43"><p>Brad --- FWIW, I had something similar happen a few years ago and it was in late September after an extended period of very wet weather. I had not been to the place in a few weeks due to the demands of my "real" job, but when I did get there to check the cows I saw that a good number looked like they had lost a LOT of weight and there were soupy looking turd splatters all over the place. I did a little reading and was soon convinced that they had one of several problems that present themselves as diarrhea, rapid weight loss, etc. so I called my vet and asked him to come and take some blood samples. He apparently had recently seen quite a few similar cases and he told me just to worm them very well with either IvomecPlus or Valbazen because his bet was that they had a worm overload and were particularly being affected by liver flukes (given my location). At the time I took fairly small comfort in his advise and was certainly willing to pay for blood work since the problem seemed to be so severe. Anyway, I shot them up with a little extra dose of IvomecPlus. It knocked a few of them on their butt for a few days but clearly it worked. Soon thereafter the diarrhea was gone and they started to gain back the weight and got back to as good as new. If you are in southern Alabama I'd bet you are in liver fluke country, and also the wet conditions in the last month or so have been ripe for other worms/parasites --- something to consider. Note that Safeguard, Eprinex, etc. won't do a thing to flukes --- it has to be IvomecPlus or Valbazen (I think "coursolon" is something else that will work but I never see it sold as such in the stores I frequent)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arnold Ziffle, post: 50818, member: 43"] Brad --- FWIW, I had something similar happen a few years ago and it was in late September after an extended period of very wet weather. I had not been to the place in a few weeks due to the demands of my "real" job, but when I did get there to check the cows I saw that a good number looked like they had lost a LOT of weight and there were soupy looking turd splatters all over the place. I did a little reading and was soon convinced that they had one of several problems that present themselves as diarrhea, rapid weight loss, etc. so I called my vet and asked him to come and take some blood samples. He apparently had recently seen quite a few similar cases and he told me just to worm them very well with either IvomecPlus or Valbazen because his bet was that they had a worm overload and were particularly being affected by liver flukes (given my location). At the time I took fairly small comfort in his advise and was certainly willing to pay for blood work since the problem seemed to be so severe. Anyway, I shot them up with a little extra dose of IvomecPlus. It knocked a few of them on their butt for a few days but clearly it worked. Soon thereafter the diarrhea was gone and they started to gain back the weight and got back to as good as new. If you are in southern Alabama I'd bet you are in liver fluke country, and also the wet conditions in the last month or so have been ripe for other worms/parasites --- something to consider. Note that Safeguard, Eprinex, etc. won't do a thing to flukes --- it has to be IvomecPlus or Valbazen (I think "coursolon" is something else that will work but I never see it sold as such in the stores I frequent) [/QUOTE]
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