FarmerStu79
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In June we bought a blonde cow 5 months in calf.
She calved a heifer calf two weeks ago gone Tuesday.
Never had a problem until early Tuesday morning when I went in to check them and the calf had a snotty nose (clear snot, no blood or green mucus) and seemed slightly depressed. I rang the vet straight away and she said that the calf had a temperature and she could hear some crackling on her lungs but that we'd caught it early so she gave her a shot of Draxxin and a shot of loxicom.
Anyway the vet came again yesterday to blood test some ewes and we asked her to just check the calf over and he said that she still had a temp so gave us another jab of loxicom to administer today which we've just done.
She has improved slightly and is still feeding, still pooing (took a sample to the vets to be tested) and weeing and hasn't lost any ground but doesn't seem to be improving greatly either.
All of our calves are special to us but this one more so for me because she is out of one of my grandad's pedigree blonde cows so I'm really hoping she comes right.
Will also add that she's in a well ventilated shed, would love some ideas or suggestions.
She calved a heifer calf two weeks ago gone Tuesday.
Never had a problem until early Tuesday morning when I went in to check them and the calf had a snotty nose (clear snot, no blood or green mucus) and seemed slightly depressed. I rang the vet straight away and she said that the calf had a temperature and she could hear some crackling on her lungs but that we'd caught it early so she gave her a shot of Draxxin and a shot of loxicom.
Anyway the vet came again yesterday to blood test some ewes and we asked her to just check the calf over and he said that she still had a temp so gave us another jab of loxicom to administer today which we've just done.
She has improved slightly and is still feeding, still pooing (took a sample to the vets to be tested) and weeing and hasn't lost any ground but doesn't seem to be improving greatly either.
All of our calves are special to us but this one more so for me because she is out of one of my grandad's pedigree blonde cows so I'm really hoping she comes right.
Will also add that she's in a well ventilated shed, would love some ideas or suggestions.