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Voicebox problem with calf

  • 23-04-2016 8:21pm
    #1
    50HX
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    have a 6 week old calf that has a fierce bad sounding croak/hoose

    he had at 2 weeks old and vet gave him a heavy enough antibiotic for 4 days

    it cleared up and now its back again

    he is on betamox at the moment for teh 2nd round of it

    vet said it was an infection of the voicebox

    he's still drinking the cow fine but still not 100% - ears slightly down and just not as perky as what he should be

    anyone come across this before and how did ye treat it


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  • #2
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,834 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    We had this in a suck a few years ago.. Kept treating but problem was it spread to ears and calf went deaf !!

    Was all the torture in the world, stupid calf would always end up facing away from you and you'd have to walk round into its line of sight, then it would get startled and run off !!

    My advice is keep tight eye on temperature and as long as its high there is an infection there that needs treating..


  • #3
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,489 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    have a calf on its 3rd go of injections, can hear it across the yard, eating and drinking as normal though


  • #4
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,573 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Had a yearling bull with laryngitis a couple of years ago. Vet said that it was simular to dypteria but more difficult to treat. Vet injected him directly into the throat and gave us Dexameth and from memory Betamox to give to him daily. He made a full recovery after a week but the vet had to inject 3 days after the first injection.


  • #5
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    Base price wrote: »
    Had a yearling bull with laryngitis a couple of years ago. Vet said that it was simular to dypteria but more difficult to treat. Vet injected him directly into the throat and gave us Dexameth and from memory Betamox to give to him daily. He made a full recovery after a week but the vet had to inject 3 days after the first injection.

    Had a suckler calf that eventually couldn't breathe because of an abcess in his throat and had to have a tracheotomy, had atube in that we had to take out and clear the mucus out of every 2 or 3 days, the abcess never reduced and we had to keep cleaning the tube until his throat got bigger before we got rid of the tube. the hole healed over and he never looked back


  • #6
    50HX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,529 ✭✭✭50HX


    thanks for the feedback and own stories on it

    he's on the second round of treatment and today is day 2 of it

    will give him 4 days and see


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