A cow licking clay!!

loveta

A 3rd calver calved one week not coming to her milk calved easily cleaned normally of her feed no temp had the vet looking at her this morning cant find nothing wrong with her gave her some liqui-thrive see would it help, any you guys come across this before or any ideas??

bob charles

loveta wrote: »

A 3rd calver calved one week not coming to her milk calved easily cleaned normally of her feed no temp had the vet looking at her this morning cant find nothing wrong with her gave her some liqui-thrive see would it help, any you guys come across this before or any ideas??

iron shortage? its definitely a mineral shortage but what without testing

delaval

loveta wrote: »

A 3rd calver calved one week not coming to her milk calved easily cleaned normally of her feed no temp had the vet looking at her this morning cant find nothing wrong with her gave her some liqui-thrive see would it help, any you guys come across this before or any ideas??

Good quality hi spec mineral. Licking clay is iron, eating stones Phos, usually

KatyMac

Basic mineral buckets out will stop eating clay in about a week.

loveta

Yes it has all the hall marks of a mineral problem but never seen a animal do it here before and all dry cows are on a hi spec mineral before they calve.Gave her a dose of liqui-thrive wondering is it enough though.

FYM

I have a week old PB Charolais calf licking clay, surely it couldn't be lacking iron already. The mother looks fine, clean coat, calved and cleaned no problem??

MFdaveIreland

iron would be my guess. Ive heard pregnant mothers licking brickwork, which is basically processed clay i think, so id say that it could translate into cows