Calf Scour - comes and goes.

patsy_mccabe · 27-03-2016 9:44am #1

I have a lim bull calf here, just short of 2 months. I normally do the calves here with Vecoxan for Coccidiosis at 10 days old, but left them this year till they were a month. This is what the instructions for Vecoxan say to do.
Well this calf started to pass some blood & mucous at 5 weeks just as I was about to give them the vecoxan. Following day the calf was fine and dung very solid. Now yesterday morning, same calf completely watery and yellow. No blood or mucous. This morning dung is perfect and solid again.
What do you think?

Count Mondego · 27-03-2016 9:51am

Just to be safe I'd give him a dart of Vecoxan.

patsy_mccabe · 27-03-2016 9:56am

Ya, he was done at the 5 weeks. No harm give it again.

Count Mondego · 27-03-2016 10:03am

I've been using this for the last few years and always clears up any nutritional scour. Into a stomach tube bag with a life-aid.

http://www.agrilloyd.com/products/beef/sustain.php

Base price · 27-03-2016 9:30pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I have a lim bull calf here, just short of 2 months. I normally do the calves here with Vecoxan for Coccidiosis at 10 days old, but left them this year till they were a month. This is what the instructions for Vecoxan say to do.
Well this calf started to pass some blood & mucous at 5 weeks just as I was about to give them the vecoxan. Following day the calf was fine and dung very solid. Now yesterday morning, same calf completely watery and yellow. No blood or mucous. This morning dung is perfect and solid again.
What do you think?

Is he on a cow and is she bulling. Often noticed a slight scour in calves when their mothers were bulling.

Calf Scour - comes and goes.

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