Post by erink on Jul 10, 2019 7:46:02 GMT -5
Hello all! Have been meaning to pop in here and show some pictures of our adorable new calf! We have a Highlander/Jersey calf on the ground, her dam is now our new milker. [And my GAD what a darling she is to milk! I was quite worried how it would go as she was not particularly friendly, food-motivated, but she has just turned into a mostly angelic little cow to milk. WITH NO LETDOWN ISSUES. She gives it all to me, even though she's with the calf 24/7. Very little kicking, etc., too.]
I will post some pictures later but for now a problem:
The calf, Sunny, is 13 days old, and yesterday/today she has liquid greyish whitish scours. Watery in consistency, no obvious blood or mucous in the scours. She is drinking significantly less milk as of this morning, usually I take 1.5 gallons (OAD) and today there was 2.25 gallons there. She is a little lethargic but still following her mother and curious. She's not hunching or kicking at her tummy at all.
She is on pasture with her mother, 24/7. Weather is clear and dry. They are on rotationally grazed pasture which is always clean and fresh, with laneways to a drylot area where they have water and the milking area is accessed. The laneways/drylot are not clean per se, but it's mostly dry.
My plan is to give fluid therapy, as well as some bentonite clay, which I put a bit in to the electrolytes, i've given this to scouring lambs and to a calf with nutritional scours with good success. I find it firms up their poop at least so they don't get rid of all of their water so quickly, and I hope that it's detoxifying effect helps to suck up the causative agent.
I'm surprised, she is healthy, everything seems like it was going well! Now I'm worried! Looking forward to hearing any advice.
I will post some pictures later but for now a problem:
The calf, Sunny, is 13 days old, and yesterday/today she has liquid greyish whitish scours. Watery in consistency, no obvious blood or mucous in the scours. She is drinking significantly less milk as of this morning, usually I take 1.5 gallons (OAD) and today there was 2.25 gallons there. She is a little lethargic but still following her mother and curious. She's not hunching or kicking at her tummy at all.
She is on pasture with her mother, 24/7. Weather is clear and dry. They are on rotationally grazed pasture which is always clean and fresh, with laneways to a drylot area where they have water and the milking area is accessed. The laneways/drylot are not clean per se, but it's mostly dry.
My plan is to give fluid therapy, as well as some bentonite clay, which I put a bit in to the electrolytes, i've given this to scouring lambs and to a calf with nutritional scours with good success. I find it firms up their poop at least so they don't get rid of all of their water so quickly, and I hope that it's detoxifying effect helps to suck up the causative agent.
I'm surprised, she is healthy, everything seems like it was going well! Now I'm worried! Looking forward to hearing any advice.