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<blockquote data-quote="rockridgecattle" data-source="post: 380858" data-attributes="member: 6198"><p>Hello Well fed ranch, </p><p>i hope you were able to get to a vet today. something to keep in mind, check his poo. runny...scours, hard...constipated, hydration..check to see if the skin tents when lightly pinched...if it does, dehydrated, check to see if the gums have receded...dehydrated. Temperature, a thermometer to put up the but. Over 38.5C is a fever and should be started on LA 200 ASAP(this is a starting point for treatment) and contact a vet for any additional help ASAP. (Keep on hand a bottle of LA 200.) It might need something stronger but a vet can help you with diagnosis and then help solve the problem. As you get beetter you will be able to diagnos and treat them yourself.</p><p>The ranch you got the animals from, were they vaccinated? Did the mothers have their shots pre breeding (black leg, ibr/bvd type 1 and type 2)? did they get scour vacciantion shots? these are things that you should check into because you want the healthiest animal to start with. Especially if you are bringing animals from other farms together. each farm has it's own brand of bateria. Mixing animals can be disasterous if they are not vaccinated.</p><p>another question, to ask the seller when you buy more, did the calf get colostrum, in the first few hours of life? Did it get mother's colostrum or powder mixed in water? The powder, how much immiglobulins did it have, how many doses. There is cheap stuff and there is good quality. 100 immuglobuloins is good...one dose if there is mo mamma's milk. Any thing less should have been 2 doses or more.</p><p>Colostrum is such an important thing (it provides the necessary anti-bodies to fight infection in the first months until they can produce their own). Make sure you ask about it. Same as about the cow and bull vaccinations from the herd of origin.</p><p></p><p>It is real good that you started with only a couple of animals to develope the learning curve. It would have been a much harder thing to swallow if you bought a lot to start with and lost many. A learning curve is real good. We did the same thing when we got into honey bees. 2 hive to learn and then grew from there.</p><p>Good luck and keep us posted, and a pic or two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rockridgecattle, post: 380858, member: 6198"] Hello Well fed ranch, i hope you were able to get to a vet today. something to keep in mind, check his poo. runny...scours, hard...constipated, hydration..check to see if the skin tents when lightly pinched...if it does, dehydrated, check to see if the gums have receded...dehydrated. Temperature, a thermometer to put up the but. Over 38.5C is a fever and should be started on LA 200 ASAP(this is a starting point for treatment) and contact a vet for any additional help ASAP. (Keep on hand a bottle of LA 200.) It might need something stronger but a vet can help you with diagnosis and then help solve the problem. As you get beetter you will be able to diagnos and treat them yourself. The ranch you got the animals from, were they vaccinated? Did the mothers have their shots pre breeding (black leg, ibr/bvd type 1 and type 2)? did they get scour vacciantion shots? these are things that you should check into because you want the healthiest animal to start with. Especially if you are bringing animals from other farms together. each farm has it's own brand of bateria. Mixing animals can be disasterous if they are not vaccinated. another question, to ask the seller when you buy more, did the calf get colostrum, in the first few hours of life? Did it get mother's colostrum or powder mixed in water? The powder, how much immiglobulins did it have, how many doses. There is cheap stuff and there is good quality. 100 immuglobuloins is good...one dose if there is mo mamma's milk. Any thing less should have been 2 doses or more. Colostrum is such an important thing (it provides the necessary anti-bodies to fight infection in the first months until they can produce their own). Make sure you ask about it. Same as about the cow and bull vaccinations from the herd of origin. It is real good that you started with only a couple of animals to develope the learning curve. It would have been a much harder thing to swallow if you bought a lot to start with and lost many. A learning curve is real good. We did the same thing when we got into honey bees. 2 hive to learn and then grew from there. Good luck and keep us posted, and a pic or two. [/QUOTE]
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