Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Health & Nutrition
Q on calf w/shipping fever
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="VAStocker" data-source="post: 258200" data-attributes="member: 4458"><p>Running a lot of stocker cattle shipping fever comes with the game. One thing with taking temps. that I find to be true for the most part is that the calfs temp in the afternoon (4-7pm) is almost alway going to be the highest that calf will have for that given day and the morning his/her lowest. I remeber an old wives tale that said your highest temp. is at 4pm and lowest at 4am.</p><p></p><p>As for the calf with the fever I think you might want to try Banimine or flunix both are fever reducers and alot of the time just makes the calf feel better. Micotil is a powerful antibiotic and expensive too if the calf is not better from all the antibiotics you have given it odds are it will not be. What our vet. tells us and probbally more will agree after three treatments with antibiotics you should give it time to run it's course nothing else that you can do will reverse the effects of the infection any more. </p><p>Good luck with it shipping fever it can be hard to handle at times and very confussing but rember there is no silver bullet out there that will cure every case so stay versitile, the next calf may need something totally different to get him/her to turn around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VAStocker, post: 258200, member: 4458"] Running a lot of stocker cattle shipping fever comes with the game. One thing with taking temps. that I find to be true for the most part is that the calfs temp in the afternoon (4-7pm) is almost alway going to be the highest that calf will have for that given day and the morning his/her lowest. I remeber an old wives tale that said your highest temp. is at 4pm and lowest at 4am. As for the calf with the fever I think you might want to try Banimine or flunix both are fever reducers and alot of the time just makes the calf feel better. Micotil is a powerful antibiotic and expensive too if the calf is not better from all the antibiotics you have given it odds are it will not be. What our vet. tells us and probbally more will agree after three treatments with antibiotics you should give it time to run it's course nothing else that you can do will reverse the effects of the infection any more. Good luck with it shipping fever it can be hard to handle at times and very confussing but rember there is no silver bullet out there that will cure every case so stay versitile, the next calf may need something totally different to get him/her to turn around. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Health & Nutrition
Q on calf w/shipping fever
Top