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
Beginners Board
sick calves
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="Anonymous" data-source="post: 15712"><p>Are you feeding electrolytes at the same time as the milk replacer? Best to feed the electrolytes a couple of hours before or after the milk feeding.</p><p></p><p>Cold can stress a calf, but we calve in the snow, are at high altitude, and have below zero winters. However, our climate has low humidity, and I think that helps.</p><p></p><p>More important than climate, I think, are the strength of the calf's immune system and cleanliness or absence of disease organisms in the calf's housing area. The calves should receive good quality colostrum in a timely manner after calving. By good quality, I mean either from their own mothers (and hopefully those mothers have been on a regular vaccination routine) or colostrum from your herd. Feeding diary colostrum (for example) to a beef calf is better than no colostrum at all, but it won't contain all the antibodies colostrum from a mature cow in your own herd will contain.</p><p></p><p>> is cold weather that much a factor</p><p>> on young calves, we have another</p><p>> one sick and he has the scours</p><p>> last one was eating and didnt have</p><p>> scours and the next morning dead</p><p>> this one probably will be in the</p><p>> morning its -2 degrees here</p><p>> tonight we need some help they</p><p>> were doin fine til the cold set</p><p>> in. they also have the shakes and</p><p>> the milk replacer is high fat we</p><p>> have heat lamps on and plenty of</p><p>> hay. hes drinking electrolytes as</p><p>> well</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 15712"] Are you feeding electrolytes at the same time as the milk replacer? Best to feed the electrolytes a couple of hours before or after the milk feeding. Cold can stress a calf, but we calve in the snow, are at high altitude, and have below zero winters. However, our climate has low humidity, and I think that helps. More important than climate, I think, are the strength of the calf's immune system and cleanliness or absence of disease organisms in the calf's housing area. The calves should receive good quality colostrum in a timely manner after calving. By good quality, I mean either from their own mothers (and hopefully those mothers have been on a regular vaccination routine) or colostrum from your herd. Feeding diary colostrum (for example) to a beef calf is better than no colostrum at all, but it won't contain all the antibodies colostrum from a mature cow in your own herd will contain. > is cold weather that much a factor > on young calves, we have another > one sick and he has the scours > last one was eating and didnt have > scours and the next morning dead > this one probably will be in the > morning its -2 degrees here > tonight we need some help they > were doin fine til the cold set > in. they also have the shakes and > the milk replacer is high fat we > have heat lamps on and plenty of > hay. hes drinking electrolytes as > well [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Beginners Board
sick calves
Top