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<blockquote data-quote="Alyse713" data-source="post: 1203393" data-attributes="member: 23324"><p>I bought a Jersey heifer last Wednesday, the 17th. (from a private small dairy, not a sale barn or commercial dairy) She was 7 days old. Yesterday, at 11 days old she had scours at her morning feeding. It wasn't bad yet (still looked like manure and wasn't too runny.) I reduced her milk in hopes that would help. I also cleaned her and her bed well. Before I even finished adding new straw to her bed she scoured again. This time it was completely runny and white/yellow with no manure. I cleaned her and her bed again. Since it was Sunday and I couldn't get her any medicine, I just waited a little bit in hopes she would improve thinking it might be nutritional or stress from being moved. A couple hours later when I went to check on her she was still scouring. I gave her more milk to make up for giving her less that morning and what she had lost from scouring.... (2 pints at a time instead of 3.) I immediately started looking online for a home "cure" just to get her through until this morning (when stores would be open.) Apple cider vinegar appeared to be my best bet so I gave her 20 ml of that with her milk that evening (again 2 pints.) I cleaned her and her bed again and when I checked on her 2 hours later she hadn't scoured again. She did after I gave her some more vinegar in water this time but it was thicker. This morning when I got up she had scoured the worst yet, and I gave her a bolus pill and some homemade electrolytes (1tsp salt, 2 the honey in 2 quarts warm water.) I have some resorb to give her next. She is still responsive, acting basically normal with good appetite (aside from not liking the vinegar) and hasn't lost weight, she is also urinating like normal, and drinking. What are your thoughts....?? She is my first bottle calf and dairy calf..... All the others have been beef calves on their mothers that I grew up with.... I'm just very worried, I know scours is the number 1 killer of bottle calves....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alyse713, post: 1203393, member: 23324"] I bought a Jersey heifer last Wednesday, the 17th. (from a private small dairy, not a sale barn or commercial dairy) She was 7 days old. Yesterday, at 11 days old she had scours at her morning feeding. It wasn't bad yet (still looked like manure and wasn't too runny.) I reduced her milk in hopes that would help. I also cleaned her and her bed well. Before I even finished adding new straw to her bed she scoured again. This time it was completely runny and white/yellow with no manure. I cleaned her and her bed again. Since it was Sunday and I couldn't get her any medicine, I just waited a little bit in hopes she would improve thinking it might be nutritional or stress from being moved. A couple hours later when I went to check on her she was still scouring. I gave her more milk to make up for giving her less that morning and what she had lost from scouring.... (2 pints at a time instead of 3.) I immediately started looking online for a home "cure" just to get her through until this morning (when stores would be open.) Apple cider vinegar appeared to be my best bet so I gave her 20 ml of that with her milk that evening (again 2 pints.) I cleaned her and her bed again and when I checked on her 2 hours later she hadn't scoured again. She did after I gave her some more vinegar in water this time but it was thicker. This morning when I got up she had scoured the worst yet, and I gave her a bolus pill and some homemade electrolytes (1tsp salt, 2 the honey in 2 quarts warm water.) I have some resorb to give her next. She is still responsive, acting basically normal with good appetite (aside from not liking the vinegar) and hasn't lost weight, she is also urinating like normal, and drinking. What are your thoughts....?? She is my first bottle calf and dairy calf..... All the others have been beef calves on their mothers that I grew up with.... I'm just very worried, I know scours is the number 1 killer of bottle calves.... [/QUOTE]
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