Healthy to dead in two hours

[Stinker]

Had a couple of calves die the last two weeks. One minute healthy the next dead. Good strong healthy calves. They blow up in the gut and drop dead. Any ideas. Calves are indoors. Straw bales they are being bedded on are not best. Any ideas?

 

[Stinker]

I should add one was 6 weeks on milk the other weaned and 12 weeks old

 

[Fergieman]

Clostridial diseases.

 

[Badshot]

I agoush add one waw 6 weeks on milk the other weaned and 12 weeks old

You need to turn off the auto correct.
Hit the spanner top right of the box

 

[Beef farmer]

Black leg/fellon

 

[Stinker]

You need to turn off the auto correct.
Hit the spanner top right of the box

Always wondered why everything I wrote never made sense.

I was thinking something clostridial. Could you get blackleg indoors? Any precautions I should take or just put it down to bad luck

 

[stablegirl]

Age

 

[vantage]

I was thinking something clostridial. Could you get blackleg indoors? Any precautions I should take or just put it down to bad luck

Years ago we had straw with a lot of soil in that we bedded calves on,lost a calf with blackleg,vet confirmed,no history previously on the farm.

 

[Stinker]

Years ago we had straw with a lot of soil in that we bedded calves on,lost a calf with blackleg,vet confirmed,no history previously on the farm.

Straw is not from our farm. Might use some straw off a different patch of ground to be on the safe side then.

 

[Stinker]

Age

6 weeks and 12 weeks

 

[coomoo]

Don’t think black leg makes guts blow up does it? Anyway I’d always hit the reset button, muck out different straw etc

 

[jimmer]

Black leg needs a route into bloodstream via cut etc , so unlikely I would have thought

 

[jimmer]

You obviously have an inkling the straw is a contributor , was once told about some kind of something that lived in spores of fousty stuff that were sometimes fatal

 

[bigw]

Black leg needs a route into bloodstream via cut etc , so unlikely I would have thought

I think they can ingest it and it get in the body that way. We lost some calves in 2015 to it and they would die very quickly, easy to feel the gas under the skin. Likely be worth getting a PM done.

 

[Beef farmer]

Black leg needs a route into bloodstream via cut etc , so unlikely I would have thought

Cough loudly....stomach tubes

 

[stablegirl]

Badly mixed milk powder.

We've had bloat touch younger than that as a secondary problem to crypto.

 

[Princess Pooper]

I'd go with clostridial bloat. Many more clostridial diseases than blackleg, clostridials include tetanus and botulism!!! Check with vet whether Bravoxin or similar would help - very cheap.

 

[Stinker]

Badly mixed milk powder.

We've had bloat touch younger than that as a secondary problem to crypto.

One was weaned 4 weeks or so, so doubt it's milk powder or stomach tubing etc.

 

[Stinker]

I'd go with clostridial bloat. Many more clostridial diseases than blackleg, clostridials include tetanus and botulism!!! Check with vet whether Bravoxin or similar would help - very cheap.

It was dead before I noticed it never mind treated it. Don't normally miss much, these are my first deaths in 500 or so, so I'm annoyed. How would you administer antibiotics if you see one early? Orally or in the vein.

 

[coomoo]

It was dead before I noticed it never mind treated it. Don't normally miss much, these are my first deaths in 500 or so, so I'm annoyed. How would you administer antibiotics if you see one early? Orally or in the vein.

First deaths in 500, I’ll leave here then sir.