regolith
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Is there any reason not to routinely add yoghurt powder to an electrolyte mix?
I've been doing it for the last couple of days, not my normal practise but two calves that had recovered from scours about a week before started scouring again suddenly - real nasty blood + water, and thinking that the previous bout of scours might have stripped out some good bugs I gave each a tablespoon of yoghurt powder a few hours after the electrolyte, then started mixing it with the electrolyte at two tablespoons to 2 litres.
Just thought that maybe if it's going to be helpful and add some flavouring and doesn't do any harm I should always add it to mix. I used one packet (that makes up to a litre of yoghurt) in 24 hours for two calves.
The rotavirus vaccine was effective for the main group of calves born but there wasn't the "lack of scours in older calves reduces infection risk to the younger ones" effect that I was counting on because every calf born later than the first 6 - 7 weeks of calving has suffered scours. It looks like next year I'll need to cut out later calvers to vaccinate separately, at a later date.
I've been doing it for the last couple of days, not my normal practise but two calves that had recovered from scours about a week before started scouring again suddenly - real nasty blood + water, and thinking that the previous bout of scours might have stripped out some good bugs I gave each a tablespoon of yoghurt powder a few hours after the electrolyte, then started mixing it with the electrolyte at two tablespoons to 2 litres.
Just thought that maybe if it's going to be helpful and add some flavouring and doesn't do any harm I should always add it to mix. I used one packet (that makes up to a litre of yoghurt) in 24 hours for two calves.
The rotavirus vaccine was effective for the main group of calves born but there wasn't the "lack of scours in older calves reduces infection risk to the younger ones" effect that I was counting on because every calf born later than the first 6 - 7 weeks of calving has suffered scours. It looks like next year I'll need to cut out later calvers to vaccinate separately, at a later date.