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new Calf rear legs stopped working
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<blockquote data-quote="rockridgecattle" data-source="post: 726844" data-attributes="member: 6198"><p>Each loss does affect the slim profit line, but so does prologing the suffering. Cost of meds that too eats into profits. The time that could be devoted to another animal that will make it. Will it gain enough and be good enough to be sold? Will it make freezer beef? The cost to feed if the mother can not feed it since it might be lame and not able to go out on pasture, etc. It all has to be costed. I would follow the vet's advice on this course of treatment. You should start to see improvement while treating. If not there is your answer. If you do see improvement it is up to you to evaluate how much improvement will be gained by continiuing to treat. If it is a good improvement...a couple more days of treating. If it is really slow...your choice. Alway evaluate each course (how ever long that course is...3d, 5d, 7d or 10 and 14d) and make your decision from there. Some times we make wrong decisions, and sometimes we make real good ones.</p><p></p><p>By the way, colostrum is no good past 24 hours of birth. Just tossing money out the back end of the calf. Best if gotten in the first two hours. Absorbtion of the IGg (imugloblins) decreases every hour.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rockridgecattle, post: 726844, member: 6198"] Each loss does affect the slim profit line, but so does prologing the suffering. Cost of meds that too eats into profits. The time that could be devoted to another animal that will make it. Will it gain enough and be good enough to be sold? Will it make freezer beef? The cost to feed if the mother can not feed it since it might be lame and not able to go out on pasture, etc. It all has to be costed. I would follow the vet's advice on this course of treatment. You should start to see improvement while treating. If not there is your answer. If you do see improvement it is up to you to evaluate how much improvement will be gained by continiuing to treat. If it is a good improvement...a couple more days of treating. If it is really slow...your choice. Alway evaluate each course (how ever long that course is...3d, 5d, 7d or 10 and 14d) and make your decision from there. Some times we make wrong decisions, and sometimes we make real good ones. By the way, colostrum is no good past 24 hours of birth. Just tossing money out the back end of the calf. Best if gotten in the first two hours. Absorbtion of the IGg (imugloblins) decreases every hour. [/QUOTE]
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