Treating Scours

[LJCC]

One of my Holstein bottle calves has scours and I've been treating it with electrolytes. Do you guys recomend giving it any shots or scour boluses? I have La200, penicillin, Baytril, Excenel, and a few others on hand.

 

[TexasBred]

One of my Holstein bottle calves has scours and I've been treating it with electrolytes. Do you guys recomend giving it any shots or scour boluses? I have La200, penicillin, Baytril, Excenel, and a few others on hand.

On bottle calves I always reduced the amount of milk replacer I was mixing in the water and fed it a diluted meal for a couple of days.

 

[LJCC]

We feed all of the high SCC and treated milk to them. Normally we just back off on the milk fed and it goes away, but he needs more attention than that. Diluted meal?

 

[Big Cheese]

We give a big pill not sure what it is called and we have also started using Spectogard for the scours and it has worked pretty good.

 

[skyhightree1]

One of my Holstein bottle calves has scours and I've been treating it with electrolytes. Do you guys recomend giving it any shots or scour boluses? I have La200, penicillin, Baytril, Excenel, and a few others on hand.

On bottle calves I always reduced the amount of milk replacer I was mixing in the water and fed it a diluted meal for a couple of days.

I do that and if that doesn't work boluses.

 

[TexasBred]

We feed all of the high SCC and treated milk to them. Normally we just back off on the milk fed and it goes away, but he needs more attention than that. Diluted meal?

Yes. The bottle of milk is his/her "meal". But since you're feeding dump milk I'd probably just water it down a bit. You'll get much better results if you'll feed them the "good" milk instead of the dump milk.

 

[LJCC]

Why do you say that good milk will give me better results? Do you mean milk replacer?

 

[TexasBred]

Why do you say that good milk will give me better results? Do you mean milk replacer?

Because it's not full of mastitis, blood, and antibiotics. Depending how many are on antibiotics and the dosage you could be destroying all the beneficial bacteria causing the scouring. We had a valve in our pipeline where we could draw it off during milking and fill the bottles and feed them fresh warm milk. Seldom had any scours or any kind of sickness.