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PERSISTENT scours in bottle calves
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<blockquote data-quote="raykour" data-source="post: 1152593" data-attributes="member: 16801"><p>I eventually lost all of these calves. </p><p></p><p>The second I cannot quite figure what got him. He ate like a hog, but his poop never firmed up. He had lots and lots of meds early on, I just htink his little organs couldn't handle it. </p><p></p><p>The third got over the hump in the scours, then went respiratory.</p><p></p><p>To appease my children, I got another calf and she is now about 5 weeks old and doing well. I penned her in a separate area from the other ones, but she still seemed to come down with whatever they had. General consensus is the initial issue with the other calves was crypto and they took it so hard because they didn't get enough colostrum. This gal had 2 doses of colostrum (2 pints each) at the dairy I got her from (cross bred calf....looks like she is a belted galloway/holstein mix) and she recovered without too much incident. She should make a good cow for me in the future, but still not pleased about losing the other 3.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="raykour, post: 1152593, member: 16801"] I eventually lost all of these calves. The second I cannot quite figure what got him. He ate like a hog, but his poop never firmed up. He had lots and lots of meds early on, I just htink his little organs couldn't handle it. The third got over the hump in the scours, then went respiratory. To appease my children, I got another calf and she is now about 5 weeks old and doing well. I penned her in a separate area from the other ones, but she still seemed to come down with whatever they had. General consensus is the initial issue with the other calves was crypto and they took it so hard because they didn't get enough colostrum. This gal had 2 doses of colostrum (2 pints each) at the dairy I got her from (cross bred calf....looks like she is a belted galloway/holstein mix) and she recovered without too much incident. She should make a good cow for me in the future, but still not pleased about losing the other 3. [/QUOTE]
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