Strong calf with scour

Dickie10

i have a calf a month to 6 weeks old in field with a milk scour hes showing no ill effects of it. will i get him in, which isnt too easy as there all running with the bull, and give him an injection of marbocyl or will he be stong enough to fight it and beat it at this stage? the cows are on flush grass prob getting to much milk

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Dickie10 wrote: »

i have a calf a month to 6 weeks old in field with a milk scour hes showing no ill effects of it. will i get him in, which isnt too easy as there all running with the bull, and give him an injection of marbocyl or will he be stong enough to fight it and beat it at this stage? the cows are on flush grass prob getting to much milk

Unless he is off and showing signs of dehydration (sunken eyes, lethargic etc) then I would leave him be. Keep an eye on him and even more so on the cow in case she develops mastitis. Make sure he is sucking each quarter, if you see a dirty/dry teat then bring her in and strig her out.

Dickie10

no hes showing no signs of ill thrift, i went to get up close this eve and he flew off with tail in the air! she is a chx so not bursting with milk but the good grass shes on last 2 weeks might be giving a lot of milk, he had her sucked all round and was drinking her this evening. so hes prob no need of anything? the green /yellow scour flew out of him the other day will this pass? iv an exams on so really hoping he didnt need treatment as i should be tryin to cram!

Kovu

I wouldn't worry about him if he's flying around the field. A man actually rang me asking about a similar thing earlier- wasn't you by any chance?

Unless you're bringing them in for something else I'd just keep an eye on him, not easy catching them in the field for a shot down the throat!

Dickie10

no wasnt me! one of these things that if i hadnt seen him scouring the other day i wouldnt be looking for him!

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Dickie10 wrote: »

no wasnt me! one of these things that if i hadnt seen him scouring the other day i wouldnt be looking for him!

Best of luck with the exams
What are you studying if you don't mind me asking. Don't say if you prefer not too.

Dickie10

Arts -! geography and history doing pme next year..all going well sat and monday!

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Dickie10 wrote: »

Arts -! geography and history doing pme next year..all going well sat and monday!

I loved Geography in secondary school but dropped it after the Inter Cert for Chemistry as in those days the choices were limited.
History was sometimes interesting but I got bored due to the fact that 2 of my older siblings were History buffs and went on and on ad nauseam to the point that they turned me off it.
As I have matured (with time) I find that I now actively research historical events with particular relevance to Irish History.
One is never too old to learn

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Kovu wrote: »

I wouldn't worry about him if he's flying around the field. A man actually rang me asking about a similar thing earlier- wasn't you by any chance?

Unless you're bringing them in for something else I'd just keep an eye on him, not easy catching them in the field for a shot down the throat!

have had a few of them with a similar storey to yourself and they all seem ok now.I think it's a combination of fresh grass and the cold changeable weather we had for the last month

Jb1989

Put a batch of sucks out a month ago
Took back in couple days later with disaster rain
Dung started to get runny
3 weeks later still runny
Calves always in good form tho
Give them 5 ml noridine into the muscle for two days and dried up instantly

Reggie.

Jb1989 wrote: »

Put a batch of sucks out a month ago
Took back in couple days later with disaster rain
Dung started to get runny
3 weeks later still runny
Calves always in good form tho
Give them 5 ml noridine into the muscle for two days and dried up instantly

Noridine or noradine?

Jb1989

Reggie. wrote: »

Noridine or noradine?

We're both wrong
N o r o d i n e

Reggie.

Jb1989 wrote: »

We're both wrong
N o r o d i n e

We use that to treat foul. Didn't know it would work for scour

High bike

Reggie. wrote: »

We use that to treat foul. Didn't know it would work for scour

only if there's a fowl smell off it:D

Reggie.

High bike wrote: »

only if there's a fowl smell off it:D

If ya have that it's crypo. Bigger issues then

agriman27

Sounds like coccidiosis to me, can turn into a blood scour if it gets a grip on them, took me a long time to find out what it was here. The best thing to treat it is baycox, a same oral dose. Baycox is also a kind of a vaccine, you can do all your calves at around 3 weeks old to prevent it

Timmaay

Just got the lab test from the 3 month old heifers here who got hit with a bad dose of scour, coccidiosis also.

Reggie.

agriman27 wrote: »

Sounds like coccidiosis to me, can turn into a blood scour if it gets a grip on them, took me a long time to find out what it was here. The best thing to treat it is baycox, a same oral dose. Baycox is also a kind of a vaccine, you can do all your calves at around 3 weeks old to prevent it

Got that stuff 2 days ago and used it. Seen improvement on them already. Dear stuff but worth it