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I have a jersey/ Brahman cross steer and a red angus steer both about 240 and they have white mucus coming out of the nose. The jersey started on sun, and the red started on Monday. Both appear to be happy, they eat, are curious, no open mouth breathing,no teeth grinding, no labored breathing, the jersey was kinda blowing his nose and stringy white mucus came out and he cleaned his nose. I ve seen the white mucus 5-6times. None of the other 3 small calves I bought have this whit snot. So my question is it the first stage on pneumonia? Or bovine respatory disease? Or just white snot? I went ahead and gave the black angus the jersey and the red a shot of 10 cc of LA200 SQ in the neck just to be safe. the little Hereford 185 I can't get her in the chute nor the large 360 red. So I have feed all of the aeromycin just to be safe. Any advices. Am I over reacting? I am new to cattle and just can't afford to lose them. Also. The bottle of la200 said one shot is all they need at 9mg of oxcytetracycline per lbs so I gave the 10cc but I talked with some old ranchers and the said give it to them every other day. What should I do?
 
I agree with taking temp but LA 200 is not going to cure any respatory problem. It is for soft tissue infection.
But whatever you give follow the label instructions. If it says give 9cc every 3 days dont give 10cc every 2 days.
 
In a perfect world cattle would not get ANY antibiotics until and unless they had an fever unless it was a follow up.
 
Phizers La 200 says its for pneumonia and shipping fever and brd, pasturella, and to administer 9 mg per lbs. each cc Contains 200 mg of oxcy, so for 225 lbs cattle 10 cc SQ is the proper dosage? Any body ever had cattle with white snot. What is it? I'll try and get a temp in the morning.
 
Sorry, I was not questioning your dosage just saying to follow the label instructions not what some old farmer, like me, says. I just used your numbers as an example.
But I still stand behind my statement that LA200 will not help if it is shipping fever, pneumonia, etc. I hope you have better results with it.
 
I don't worry too much unless its green or yellow
On sale barn cattle I'll give them all a shot of draxxin(it's labeled for metaphylaxis) when I bring them in
 
cross_7":1o58q49h said:
I don't worry too much unless its green or yellow
On sale barn cattle I'll give them all a shot of draxxin(it's labeled for metaphylaxis) when I bring them in
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I agree, but I use baytril for calves I bring in. And I also agree that if they do get sick la200 is not going to help. You need baytril, draxxin, or zuprevo if you have resprotory problems, but what they have now would not concern me very much.
 
Not to hijack the thread but I have my first case of pneumonia I believe in a 65 day old calf. He was fine got a high temp, shallow breathing, fast heart rate, and lungs sound like it. Gave banamine to drop fever and nuflor. had to give banamine for past three days and second shot of nuflor today. Doesnt seem to be getting better but not worse unless we dont give banamine then temp is up around 105. Should i try draxxin or baytril? This is not a salebarn calf and him and mom are born and raised here and vaccinated.
 
I would try zuprevo as my first choice and baytril or draxxin would be my second. If he gets worse all at once and you have both, I have saved calves by giving the recommended dose of baytril and draxxin at the same time.
 
shadyhollownj":12d3p9m3 said:
Not to hijack the thread but I have my first case of pneumonia I believe in a 65 day old calf. He was fine got a high temp, shallow breathing, fast heart rate, and lungs sound like it. Gave banamine to drop fever and nuflor. had to give banamine for past three days and second shot of nuflor today. Doesnt seem to be getting better but not worse unless we dont give banamine then temp is up around 105. Should i try draxxin or baytril? This is not a salebarn calf and him and mom are born and raised here and vaccinated.
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Here's a site I shared with Chicken - go to section on respiratory infection. After 5 to 6 days, if no improvement, try a different antibiotic or call a veterinarian.
http://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/dms/fapm/fap ... tocols.pdf

Here's another good article - should probably be required study for those using antibiotics.
http://www.westerncowman.com/july_augus ... h_One.html

Another drug approved for use in respiratory disease is Nuflor (florfenicol), which is in a different class of drugs—the same class as chloramphenicol, which is no longer allowed for use in food animals. This class of drugs is very effective and broad spectrum. Nuflor often works well for treating respiratory infections, but some veterinarians do not use it in calves less than 30 days old because it tends to make them scour.

Nuflor’s effective duration of activity is at least 4 days.{depends on dose} “The main question stockmen ask, for any of these drugs, is how many days should they watch the animal (for response/improvement) before they switch drugs. I’d give Draxxin at least a week (up to 10 days), Micotil 3 days and Nuflor 4 days,” explains Lechtenberg. If the calf is slipping backward—not making progress in recovery, you need to re-evaluate the diagnosis. Is this just respiratory disease or does the calf have other issues?

“It may be a primary viral infection, and the antibiotic may keep bacterial load down (to prevent severe secondary infection) but the real problem is viremia. In that instance, changing antibiotics won’t do much good. Or, you may have a chronic condition in the lung (especially in feedlot cattle) and the antibiotic isn’t effective,” he says. In a cow-calf operation this is generally not the problem, since the stockman is usually dealing with a calf that’s sick for the first time. In that instance, you generally expect the response to be good.
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