Young Calf loosing hair after sickness

Sugarbowl · 07-05-2019 07:29PM #1

This is the first time I've noticed this happening to me. A young calf gets a scour - I treat it for it immediately and they recover pretty fast again. No temperature. 2 calves in particular took longer to get over it and have lost patches of hair in random parts of the body - back, front legs, back of their head, neck etc. Does anyone know what causes this? All calves have recovered. The first calf hair is regrowing where he lost it, while it has just appeared in the 2nd calf the last few days. Any suggestions appreciated.

patsy_mccabe · 07-05-2019 08:26PM

I had a few calves with scour this year. I too noticed that they lost the hair around the back legs. I was thinking that it was the acidity of the scour itself that caused it. It all grew back in time too.

_Brian · 07-05-2019 11:07PM

Loosing hair round backside wouldn’t be too unusual.

We had one years ago lost wads of hair all over, vet was in testing and I asked her about it.

She said it was unusual and didn’t like the look of it, she could literally pull it out in lumps.

He did survive though.

Sugarbowl · 08-05-2019 02:08PM

Yeah I will ask the vet too. Due to come around shortly. The calf is better now and drinking and acting fine but all the bald batches on him makes him look a lot sicker. It's a symptom of salmonella so maybe there's a touch of that in it. I will find out from the vet and update here if I get an answer.

Young Calf loosing hair after sickness

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