Treatment of newborn calves with diarrhea

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            PREVENTION:  1)  Make sure cows calves in a clean dry will maintained stall or paddock.

            2)  Give four quarts of colostrum as soon as possible after birth  (within 4 hours).  Best to milk out cow, harvest colostrum without any fecal debris, and feed promptly to calf using an esophageal feeder.

            3)  Dip navel immediately after birth with a strong iodine tincture.

 

ABOVE 3 STEPS ARE MANDATORY.  No amount of treatment can make up for diseases acquired in a colostral deprived calf born into a dirty environment.

            4)  3cc BoSe

 

TREATMENT

            At first sign of diarrhea or decrease appetite give antibiotics and oral electrolytes.

            ANTIBIOTICS.           a)  give 2cc Exencel/Naxel im once a day.        

                                            or b)  give 1 dose (marked 110# on syringe) of Tribrissen paste.  Repeat this in 12 hours, and at 24 hours, then give once a day  (give 3 doses in a row, on then once a day)

            ORAL ELECTROLYTES

 Day 1   a) give 2 quarts Resorb  at 1st sign of dairrhea,  Use oral  esophogeal feeder if necessary.

            b)  give one quart milk 2 - 4 hour later (noon)

            c)  Feed Resorb at next feeding

Day 2    d)  If no improvement repeat as above,  if better feed milk at normal time, give one feeding

                 of resorb at mid day.

  

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