littleblessingsfarms
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Have a two day old Hereford calf, mother rejected so we are bottle raising him. Started out with two quarts powdered colostrum at approx two hours after birth, gave 5 g probios orally at four hours, another quart of colostrum at approx six hours and one final quart at about 15 hours (10 PM). Second day we gave his 2 qt mixed milk (part replacer, part colostrum) at 1PM, he didn't want to eat earlier but ate voraciously then, about one quart warm water at 5 PM, and 2 qt mixed milk at 10PM. This morning, when I went out to feed him morning milk, he stood up and had BM that was literally water squirting out, but prior to this BM had BM's that were mushy yellow with "pellets" in it and again afterwards. He is active, insistant at feeding time and seems healthy. This obviously is my first bottle baby so am not sure if the watery one was normal or if he is in early scours. He has had all normals BM's except that one, they all smell the same and like cheese which I assumed is normal but my only point of reference is human babies and that is normal with them. Even the watery one was cheesy smelling. I am not sure if I should start treating him and if so, should I give antibiotics or just electrolytes for this type. I have hunted all over the net and I can find lots of definitions of scours but nothing that is really helpful, just what causes it and how to treat, nothing about looks nor smell.