Calf scour

[More to life]

Send the calves for autopsy get a proper diagnosis and stomach tubes are the work for the devil.

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

I could be wrong but if the halcur and the parafor are not working then I think it’s not crypto.

 

[Beef farmer]

I could be wrong but if the halcur and the parafor are not working then I think it’s not crypto.

If they havnt got crypto, both those are very harsh on young calves.
Half dose for 4 days works well for some...

 

[Headless chicken]

If they havnt got crypto, both those are very harsh on young calves.
Half dose for 4 days works well for some...

An ex employer once told me it is basically poison in a controlled dose.

 

[Happy at it]

Sorry to hear things haven't improved for you yet. I've no big advice to give you, other than to hunt the vets out of the yard. Nothing worse than being in bother with stock than getting a big vet bill for the fun at the end of it.....

 

[Cows 'n grass]

What age are they showing symptoms/dying?

 

[Samcowman]

Done anything that I can but won't work for anything on the ground now or in the next 3 weeks

When we had scours bad in the sucklers we tried everything bar rotavec. Half way through calving said bugger it and did everything left to calve. Every calf born from a few days after the vaccine didn’t scour where half of them before were.
it worked a lot quicker than the data sheet said in our situation.
The year before we tried the halocure solution because a test said crypto was the problem. Turned out it was the final problem and rota was the gateway problem weakening the calves.
My advise for what it’s worth. You are doing all you can. I think you need to do as others have said. Just go back to basics. Let them calve out in a fresh paddock and let the calves drink their own colostrum.
Dint be afraid to ask for help and get another more experienced neighbour to come have a walk round and a chat.

 

[Sparkymark]

Sorry to hear your troubles. Nobody’s mentioned this yet but your dump bucket that you collect colostrum. Is it 100% sterile?
We had a Salmonella Dublin problem a few years ago and lost many calves. It wasn’t diagnosed straight away and we were looking in the wrong places.
I now have a separate dump bucket for mastitis cows to the one i use for colostrum and it gets a deep clean regularly.

 

[Boo-Boo]

What do I do
Please can someone tell me what the f**k I'm doing wrong

I've now lost my fourth heifer in less than a week

They're having parafor

I've got vets (plural) coming out daily and have done for the past week

We are checking temperatures constantly and using antibiotics like sweeties

I'm tubing calves up to 4 times a day to keep them hydrated

I have literally no idea how much testing I have paid/paying for, bloods, dung etc

I know I'm sh!t and it's all my fault and I'm awful for using antibiotics etc

I do not know what to do but if I loose another calf the liklihood of me jumping of a building increases quite drastically, its absolutely soul destroying

Has your vet done a blood test on young calves to see if the colostrum is giving the levels of antibodies it should. As for calving outdoors , what we do is let cow calf inside, calf in put straight into wheel barrow, out to field then cow is milked , calf in tubed with 3-4 liters and the stay out for 24-36 hrs . It seems to me that most bugs are picked up during these times

 

[lizness]

There is a colostrum supplement called locatim that our vets used to sell. I don't know if it any use but it might be worth a look? Just remembered it.

 

[Cowcalf]

I'm open to vaccinating but don't want to waste any money on vaccinating for the wrong thing (seems to be hundreds of them available!) What do you vaccinate for?

Rotavec at £5,5 per head is as cheap as any insurance, the very least it does is reduce the problens and the first day of feed is what matter

 

[Cowcalf]

There is a colostrum supplement called locatim that our vets used to sell. I don't know if it any use but it might be worth a look? Just remembered it.

If your going to give the calf a supplement it’s better to feed a replacer such as vet sonic platinum it’s expensive at £37 a feed but it certainly is quality when bugs are a problem or just you need colostrum

 

[supercow]

No, not currently, I thought he rotavec vaccine only works if you feed cows milk for a few days? Mine only get colostrum for the first 2 feeds within 6 hours and then they're on powder

Why don’t you feed the cows milk for 2 days? Your keeping the milk out anyway? Don’t want to sound like an arse but our calves are on its mother’s milk for 2 days.

 

[Truenorth]

Have you tried (roto) scour bolus? Can't mind right name of them but we us some most years.
See a calf doppy with scouring in a batch give them 2 any others slight sign give 1. Poorest give a metacam if temp is high.

 

[supercow]

Send the calves for autopsy get a proper diagnosis and stomach tubes are the work for the devil.

How do you feed dehydrated calves that won’t drink?

 

[More to life]

How do you feed dehydrated calves that won’t drink?

Same as you I expect

 

[supercow]

Same as you I expect

I tube them as there’s no other option how do you do it ?

 

[More to life]

I tube them as there’s no other option how do you do it ?

yes exactly doesn't mean I like it.

 

[supercow]

yes exactly doesn't mean I like it.

Of course not. I wouldn’t say an instrument that saves a calves life is the work of the devil. Just sayin

 

[More to life]

Of course not. I wouldn’t say an instrument that saves a calves life is the work of the devil. Just sayin

I was referring to colostrum feeding