HappyShep76
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That sound horrendous!i have dealt with mycoplasma bovis 3 years ago on my farm
never want to see it again
bought in 30 charolais weanlings 8 months old
2 days later they started getting sick
anitbiotics draxxin etc were used an only saved a few
best approach we had by the end was to feed antibiotic powder to the full herd in the meal for about a month
we tried to cut the powder after 10 days and temperatures started to rise so had to stick with it
lost 8 charolais bulls to it.
comrades that survived didn't thrive like the other batches before them either.
cost me about 11 thousand euro and that's not taking lost thrive into account.
The antibiotics in the feed is a very interesting point. In one of the many discussions with the calf supplier it was mentioned that some of the calf batches we had were given a week on Tilmovet 250 in their milk prior to us receiving them as they “weren’t quite right”. I can only imagine that once it had left their systems, plus the stress of moving, we got the problems.
Did you get anything back from where your weanlings came from?
Were the 8 Charolais you lost adults?