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When to treat symptoms of pneumonia.
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<blockquote data-quote="faster horses" data-source="post: 1776493" data-attributes="member: 17524"><p>I'm going to throw this out there and you can take it for what it is worth.</p><p>We had terrible sickness in our calves until we got on a good mineral program.</p><p>We were giving shots at branding until a veterinarian told us that the calves were too young </p><p>even then to utilize the vaccines. So except for blackleg plus C&D, we didn't give any more</p><p>shots at branding. What we did do was enhance the immune system of the cow through the mineral. That in turn, made the colostrum better, which protected the calves that were born.</p><p></p><p>As I say, take it for what it is worth. But I can guarantee you it worked for us. We went from doctoring 95% of the calves (some more than once) to maybe doctoring 1%. Some years we didn't doctor anything and didn't lose a calf after it was born. </p><p></p><p>What we found after 8 years of doctoring sick calves was the cattle had a copper deficiency. </p><p>This was back from 1985 to 1993. Not a lot was known about mineral back then. Feeding it changed our operation. </p><p></p><p>I hope this post has some merit for some of you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="faster horses, post: 1776493, member: 17524"] I'm going to throw this out there and you can take it for what it is worth. We had terrible sickness in our calves until we got on a good mineral program. We were giving shots at branding until a veterinarian told us that the calves were too young even then to utilize the vaccines. So except for blackleg plus C&D, we didn't give any more shots at branding. What we did do was enhance the immune system of the cow through the mineral. That in turn, made the colostrum better, which protected the calves that were born. As I say, take it for what it is worth. But I can guarantee you it worked for us. We went from doctoring 95% of the calves (some more than once) to maybe doctoring 1%. Some years we didn't doctor anything and didn't lose a calf after it was born. What we found after 8 years of doctoring sick calves was the cattle had a copper deficiency. This was back from 1985 to 1993. Not a lot was known about mineral back then. Feeding it changed our operation. I hope this post has some merit for some of you. [/QUOTE]
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