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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1833135" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>If it is more like nutritional type scours, and in bottle calves... CUT BACK on the amount fed. Too many people feed calves too much the first few days.... once they get that important colostrum, they do not need a half gallon of milk flooding their tiny first stomach that is what digests the milk. Problem is, most people do not have time to feed 3-4 times a day... but if you think about it, most baby calves will nurse a half a dozen times a day or more, from a cow in real life... and they are not getting a half gallon at a time... pint or 2 at a time is more like it. Calves will nurse out 1 quarter, maybe 2, at a time, the first couple of days... but they nurse frequently. We flood their gut tract with a half gallon of milk at a time, it cannot be digested and there is not room in that first stomach to hold all that...so it basically runs through them and out the other end... then they get weak from the stress it puts on their system and then other stuff invades their systems...</p><p></p><p>This is very simplistic in description... the abomasum is the "milk digestion stomach" and as the calf gets a little older it actually does not grow and develop but becomes less important to the absorption of feed stuffs as the rumen starts to develop and it gets larger and more developed. </p><p></p><p>This is one reason some have gone to the mechanical "milk bar" in the dairies... the calf can go up to this automatic calf feeder... it makes up a portion of milk replacer and the calf can get a certain amount of warm milk to drink... and that is it... they drink a portion and they are satsified and then can later go back and get more... not a big glug all at once. </p><p></p><p>If it is occurring in calves that are on cows there are 2 things... there is a persistent "bug" in the surroundings that they are picking up and that is not something that will ever "go away" until the calf develops some immunity to it and there is no guarantee that they will get resistance to it, e coli is very common in calves, and salmonella, and things like a coccidiosis... corona and rota viruses have to be dealt with through vaccination of the dams... and they are a royal b#@&h to get rid of... </p><p></p><p>Some cows do produce too much milk for their calves (beef).... but usually by the time the calf is drinking "too much" they get a little loose and then it balances out... sometimes getting scald on the butt and backs of legs from it.... but they do not usually get incapacitated from it unless a secondary "bug" gets in their system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1833135, member: 25884"] If it is more like nutritional type scours, and in bottle calves... CUT BACK on the amount fed. Too many people feed calves too much the first few days.... once they get that important colostrum, they do not need a half gallon of milk flooding their tiny first stomach that is what digests the milk. Problem is, most people do not have time to feed 3-4 times a day... but if you think about it, most baby calves will nurse a half a dozen times a day or more, from a cow in real life... and they are not getting a half gallon at a time... pint or 2 at a time is more like it. Calves will nurse out 1 quarter, maybe 2, at a time, the first couple of days... but they nurse frequently. We flood their gut tract with a half gallon of milk at a time, it cannot be digested and there is not room in that first stomach to hold all that...so it basically runs through them and out the other end... then they get weak from the stress it puts on their system and then other stuff invades their systems... This is very simplistic in description... the abomasum is the "milk digestion stomach" and as the calf gets a little older it actually does not grow and develop but becomes less important to the absorption of feed stuffs as the rumen starts to develop and it gets larger and more developed. This is one reason some have gone to the mechanical "milk bar" in the dairies... the calf can go up to this automatic calf feeder... it makes up a portion of milk replacer and the calf can get a certain amount of warm milk to drink... and that is it... they drink a portion and they are satsified and then can later go back and get more... not a big glug all at once. If it is occurring in calves that are on cows there are 2 things... there is a persistent "bug" in the surroundings that they are picking up and that is not something that will ever "go away" until the calf develops some immunity to it and there is no guarantee that they will get resistance to it, e coli is very common in calves, and salmonella, and things like a coccidiosis... corona and rota viruses have to be dealt with through vaccination of the dams... and they are a royal b#@&h to get rid of... Some cows do produce too much milk for their calves (beef).... but usually by the time the calf is drinking "too much" they get a little loose and then it balances out... sometimes getting scald on the butt and backs of legs from it.... but they do not usually get incapacitated from it unless a secondary "bug" gets in their system. [/QUOTE]
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