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<blockquote data-quote="Alice" data-source="post: 227107" data-attributes="member: 3873"><p>A milk cow won't solve the salebarn problems, but a milk cow is preferrable to using milk replacer. A salebarn calf, as likely as not, has not had the benefit of colostrum...and a milk cow isn't going to solve that problem.</p><p></p><p>If you can keep the calf hydrated with electrolytes, keep nutrition up with the milk replacer (fed in small amounts at intervals of every 3 to four hours), and keep a secondary infection from setting up, then the calf will most likely make it, lack of colostrum or not. But that juggling act is hard to follow with all calves, as some just aren't gonna make it. They've come from a sale barn...they're already stressed from that situation...they've been exposed to every lousy virus and bacteria you can think of, they've had little or no colostrum, I could go on and on.</p><p></p><p>I do use spectam, but like anything else, when it comes to salebarn calves, you still gotta cross your fingers and HOPE that the scours you are treating responds. If the scours are from a virus, an antibiotic isn't gonna touch it...but it will help prevent a secondary infection, pneumonia comes quickly to mind as that is what will most likely result if you don't get the scours under control. If the scours are bacteria driven, nuflor or exenel and liquamyacin can help. As for scour pills, I don't even buy them anymore. </p><p></p><p>Alice</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alice, post: 227107, member: 3873"] A milk cow won't solve the salebarn problems, but a milk cow is preferrable to using milk replacer. A salebarn calf, as likely as not, has not had the benefit of colostrum...and a milk cow isn't going to solve that problem. If you can keep the calf hydrated with electrolytes, keep nutrition up with the milk replacer (fed in small amounts at intervals of every 3 to four hours), and keep a secondary infection from setting up, then the calf will most likely make it, lack of colostrum or not. But that juggling act is hard to follow with all calves, as some just aren't gonna make it. They've come from a sale barn...they're already stressed from that situation...they've been exposed to every lousy virus and bacteria you can think of, they've had little or no colostrum, I could go on and on. I do use spectam, but like anything else, when it comes to salebarn calves, you still gotta cross your fingers and HOPE that the scours you are treating responds. If the scours are from a virus, an antibiotic isn't gonna touch it...but it will help prevent a secondary infection, pneumonia comes quickly to mind as that is what will most likely result if you don't get the scours under control. If the scours are bacteria driven, nuflor or exenel and liquamyacin can help. As for scour pills, I don't even buy them anymore. Alice [/QUOTE]
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