How to treat crypto?

Headless chicken

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West Wales

• Feb 15, 2024

• #1

Currently using halacour or some variation of it. It’s a pig of a disease and I hate it. Calf shed gets cleaned as well as possible but no concrete. Is there any other solution or just keep on at it with halacour?

 

More to life

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Somerset

• Feb 15, 2024

• #2

Parafor is amazing but both milk buyer and vet needs to be onside use it as a six week fire break.

 

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livestock 1

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• Feb 15, 2024

• #3

We have just changed from Halacour to another variation too. They seem to require a longer treatment. We used to inject them with something years ago I can’t remember but I think it was Nuflor. There is a subcutaneous dosage rate and an intramuscular dosage rate if I remember right the subcutaneous route worked better

 

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Tex

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• Feb 15, 2024

• #4

More to life said:

Parafor is amazing but both milk buyer and vet needs to be onside use it as a six week fire break.

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We use parafor also, but expensive enough.

 

Holsteinfriesian90

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Cornwall

• Feb 15, 2024

• #5

Tex said:

We use parafor also, but expensive enough.

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So do we. Only thing that will touch it we found. Crypto is awful.

 

Scholsey

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Herefordshire

• Feb 15, 2024

• #6

Vaccinate drys with Bovigen and ensure every calf including calf’s from heifers gets the vaccinated cow colostrum.

 

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Bangoverthebar

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Livestock Farmer

• Feb 15, 2024

• #7

Headless chicken said:

Currently using halacour or some variation of it. It’s a pig of a disease and I hate it. Calf shed gets cleaned as well as possible but no concrete. Is there any other solution or just keep on at it with halacour?

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Sounds like your unable to actually disinfect the calf shed. My father in law was at this for years. Could not get on top of it.
I moved calvss to a concrete floored shed. Powerwash and omnicox disinfectant= no crypto

 

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livestock 1

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• Feb 15, 2024

• #8

I was told sometimes it’s in the water

 

Headless chicken

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West Wales

• Feb 15, 2024

• #9

Bangoverthebar said:

Sounds like your unable to actually disinfect the calf shed. My father in law was at this for years. Could not get on top of it.
I moved calvss to a concrete floored shed. Powerwash and omnicox disinfectant= no crypto

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concreting the calf shed is on the list. But then so is concrete the calving shed. Along with a million and one other things. Will have to try and start somewhere and just plod along.

 

twizzel

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• Feb 15, 2024

• #10

There is apparently a vaccine for crypto coming which is given to the cow pre calving, it will be a game changer if it works. In the mean time we use halocur on our sucklers, (they are also vaccinated with bovigen scour but this doesn’t cover crypto).

 

Scholsey

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Location

Herefordshire

• Feb 15, 2024

• #11

twizzel said:

There is apparently a vaccine for crypto coming which is given to the cow pre calving, it will be a game changer if it works. In the mean time we use halocur on our sucklers, (they are also vaccinated with bovigen scour but this doesn’t cover crypto).

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Honestly thought it did cover it! Ours are defo better when we use Bovigen but maybe it’s not crypto that causes all our issues.

 

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Dairyfarmer2016

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Livestock Farmer

• Feb 15, 2024

• #12

We had a bad do with it it hutches that were on a hardcore base it was our first year and could t afford concrete so we rolled a silage sheet out and bedded the hutches on top of that, hard work when we mucked out but it saved us mentally and saved a lot of calves, before that it started in hutch one and went right through to hutch 16 in a couple of days

 

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Half Pipe

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• Feb 15, 2024

• #13

Anyone ever used this product?

Buy Encrypt 4.2L from Fane Valley Stores Agricultural Supplies

Mervue Encrypt is a complementary feed that supports natural immunity and gut health in young calves. Feed orally or in milk for fighting against cryptospo

www.fanevalleystores.com

 

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livestock 1

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• Feb 15, 2024

• #14

I’m using Halofusol

 

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som farmer

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somerset

• Feb 15, 2024

• #15

no concrete, lime the base well, the change in acidity kills off most things.

we had our 1st outbreak 6 yrs ago, went from very low mortality, to the opposite, never having come across it, we were a bit slow, working it out.

bought a whole new set of hurdles and fronts, and moved sheds, so all new calves never came into contact, and used halocur as standard. Those that had caught it, in the first shed, treated, drenched/fed calves x4 a day. In hindsight, should have shot the lot, lost a lot, and most of the survivors never grew properly, first loss, best loss !

so, dairy cows all injected 4 weeks pre calving, with rota-vac. Take a lot of care over our transition diet, 4 weeks pre calving, to calving. Correct minerals, bulky ration etc, not only does it prevent milk fever, rfm's etc, it ensures they produce good colostrum.

good ventilation, proper feeding etc, are crucial. We very very seldom ever tube a calf, right cow condition/nutrition, helps produce strong lively calves.

we store our colostrum, that and any waste milk, is fed to calves, suspect that helps the calf fight off infection/bugs.

other than halocur, in that one year, and a panic once later, not needed, the only vaccination our calves get, is bolvolta, v respiratory disease.

 

Holsteinfriesian90

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Location

Cornwall

• Feb 15, 2024

• #16

Scholsey said:

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Honestly thought it did cover it! Ours are defo better when we use Bovigen but maybe it’s not crypto that causes all our issues.

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I still think it’s helps though.

 

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Mervyn75

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Mixed Farmer

• Feb 15, 2024

• #17

Had a heartbreaking calving last year.Halocur made no difference.Bought the teemore pens with the plastic floor,strict hygiene and disinfecting all the time with some vicious stuff local chemical guy has found to work well.Moved to Parafor and touch wood it's working so far

 

Dead Rabbits

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Location

'Merica

• Feb 16, 2024

• #18

No cures that I’m aware of, in the US we are not allowed halocur or whatever. Get them through it or they die.

We do probably everything wrong with calf raising you could do but haven’t seen crypto in years. Obviously seasonal calving has a lot to do with that, but other than that, why did it stop?

It makes one realize how little we actually know.

 

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livestock 1

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• Feb 16, 2024

• #19

We seem to get it when it’s cold wet damp air just like what we’ve had

 

Will Blackburn

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Location

Cheshire

• Feb 16, 2024

• #20

Hygiene and fluids is the only treatment we use. Generally been okay for the last few years except when we had heavy rain on hutches over soil. Got a smooth pad of concrete now for the hutches. If you take it that there always is a background level of infection and you have to continually keep that at a non-disease causing level you won’t go far wrong.