grey scour by suckler calves

johnpawl

Calves outside scouring gunmetal grey in colour. They seem lively, just wondering is it something to be worried about?

Atilathehun

johnpawl wrote: »

Calves outside scouring gunmetal grey in colour. They seem lively, just wondering is it something to be worried about?

Grey colour scour, is normally no an issue. It's common on young sucker calves.
On the other hand, I have one three week old suckler calf with a really thin watery scour for past two days. Seems lively, but I'm a bit concerned nevertheless.
Wonder if there is something I should give him?
Any advice lads???

greysides

Atilathehun wrote: »

On the other hand, I have one three week old suckler calf with a really thin watery scour for past two days. Seems lively, but I'm a bit concerned nevertheless.
Wonder if there is something I should give him?

Fluids.

oldsmokey

Got 3 or 4 which had that grey / milky scour, calves were lively, gave em synalux tabs 2/day for 3 days, job sorted...seems to hit calves whose mothers have too much milk...

RD10

Ive a calf here that had that grey colour scour yesterday and very watery straw colour yellow scour today. Calf seems to be in ok form but Gave him stuff this morning anyway because its very watery stuff and i dont want hime getting worse. Think there's small bits of maybe blood in it too. Anyone know is it much to be worrying about?

patsy_mccabe

What age?

whelan2

What stuff did you give him

RD10

About a week old. Mother had frig all milk wen calf was born. She was put out to grass and getting some dairy/suckler nuts. Last day or two her bag has just begun to fill up. the scour is prob due to the calf having got little milk the first while to too much now.
All i had was bimadine to give him.

White Clover

RD10 wrote: »

About a week old. Mother had frig all milk wen calf was born. She was put out to grass and getting some dairy/suckler nuts. Last day or two her bag has just begun to fill up. the scour is prob due to the calf having got little milk the first while to too much now.
All i had was bimadine to give him.

Nothing to worry about. If you want, Just check his temperature to be certain.

caseman

The last 3 years i've used nothing else but glucose and salt to treat scour.
Two table spoon's of glucose and one table spoon of salt mixed in one litre of luke warm water and stómach tube the calve.
I wasted alot of money ón tables and powders over the years and none of them matched the the results i get with glucose and salt.

shrek008

How often would you give that to scouring calf, does it not seem like an awful lot of salt??

Jb1989

caseman wrote: »

The last 3 years i've used nothing else but glucose and salt to treat scour.
Two table spoon's of glucose and one table spoon of salt mixed in one litre of luke warm water and stómach tube the calve.
I wasted alot of money ón tables and powders over the years and none of them matched the the results i get with glucose and salt.

Defo glucose is the best homemade remedy for any kind of energy defiency, can't speak highly enough of it,,
Interest, the salt. Tho it makes sense wen you think of it.

And some use a couple of strong tea bags in a bottle with warm water to help put manners on scour.

Also natural yoghurt, to give them another energy Boost.

Main point is have a bag of glucose on hand at all times.

greysides

Natural yoghurt would be effectively a probiotic, all the rage a few years ago.

caseman

shrek008 wrote: »

How often would you give that to scouring calf, does it not seem like an awful lot of salt??

I usually get away with once ,the secrst to treating scour is early treatment

RD10

caseman wrote: »

I usually get away with once ,the secrst to treating scour is early treatment

Agree with u on that. If u catch it early its half the battle won.