A really Crappy Post! Literally. Yes with pics!

[chicks & ducks]

As I'm unsure what a coccidiosis poo looks like I thought, heck-technology is a great tool-use it! So I'm able to share my cow's poo with you! Aren't you lucky.

Believe it or not this actually looks better than yesterday-yesterday was just runny runny runny-sank right into the hay.

The color isn't entirely accurate-you can see how the straw/hay looks a little pale-so does the poo. Best I could do with a cell phone camera I'm afraid

This is from the calf that is separated from the others as I brought him home with pneumonia. It's the best his has ever looked! Hoping he's coming out of this finally.

There you have it! I was thinking it might be handy to have an 'idiot's guide to calf poo' on here somewhere for folks like me You know, good poo, bad poo, newborn calf poo, 3 month old poo(because there are definitely changes as the calf ages, I've noticed that already. Just a thought.

 

[Azriel]

I am not an expert by any means, but I would say you have nutritional scoures. I have a little twin that i was fighting that with for almost a week. I fed her an electrolyte product called RE-SORB. because this calf was small I did not want to take away the milk totally, so I mixed the electrolyte with the milk replacer half and half for 2 days, (4 feedings) then started very slowly adding more of the replacer. By the 2nd day of the half and half feedings she was having normal poops, but I had to be extra careful to not over feed and to make sure I did not mix the replacer too strong, and at any sign of loose poops I would back off on the replacer a bit and add extra electrolyte. I really like this RE-SORB as its the only electrolyte product that I've found that can be mixed with the milk.
It also really helps if you can get them eating some grass, and get them out into the sunshine.
Good Luck with the calves

 

[jhm47]

If your cattle had coccidiosis, they would have bloody diarrhia. This is NOT coccidiosis.