farmerjan
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Is the Dumor all milk ? I have never used it. I only feed an all milk milk replacer. Soy can cause terrible stomach upset for the newer calves. They will be able to tolerate it more after they get bigger.
My milk replacer is a local brand for this area as it is sold at our local feed mill with a "generic" label. Can't tell you the name, as I really can't remember it. I won't deviate from it... regardless of how cheap or on sale another brand is.... unless it is Land-O-Lakes. That is my second favorite brand of milk replacer. It is not cheap but I have not had any problems with either. Some of the all milk ones don't smell as good as other brands either....
My suggestion is to take him off all replacer for 2 days, electrolytes only, several 1/2 bottles instead of 2 whole bottles if possible.... and get it all cleaned out of his system. Use a gel tube type of probiotics and go back to the milk replacer at half the amount, ie. 1/2 bottle, for one feeding, then see... go to a 3/4 bottle next feeding, and then a full bottle if the scours slow down/stop.
Another old trick is add 1-2 raw eggs to the bottle.... helps to stop them up a bit and adds protein that is easily digested. And I have often used people immodium for slowing the scours and getting them firmed up... Anything with an antibiotic is going to cause more upset to the gut tract.
Sometimes calves get the squirts and it is really hard to get them stopped. The problem is , wherever they came from has "bugs" that are different than what you have on your farm... and then they went through the stockyards which exposed then to 9 million different "bugs" and their systems get overwhelmed even if they got colostrum.
I do not buy calves at the stockyards anymore.....been there done that for too many years. They have 2 strikes against them just by going through the sale.
My milk replacer is a local brand for this area as it is sold at our local feed mill with a "generic" label. Can't tell you the name, as I really can't remember it. I won't deviate from it... regardless of how cheap or on sale another brand is.... unless it is Land-O-Lakes. That is my second favorite brand of milk replacer. It is not cheap but I have not had any problems with either. Some of the all milk ones don't smell as good as other brands either....
My suggestion is to take him off all replacer for 2 days, electrolytes only, several 1/2 bottles instead of 2 whole bottles if possible.... and get it all cleaned out of his system. Use a gel tube type of probiotics and go back to the milk replacer at half the amount, ie. 1/2 bottle, for one feeding, then see... go to a 3/4 bottle next feeding, and then a full bottle if the scours slow down/stop.
Another old trick is add 1-2 raw eggs to the bottle.... helps to stop them up a bit and adds protein that is easily digested. And I have often used people immodium for slowing the scours and getting them firmed up... Anything with an antibiotic is going to cause more upset to the gut tract.
Sometimes calves get the squirts and it is really hard to get them stopped. The problem is , wherever they came from has "bugs" that are different than what you have on your farm... and then they went through the stockyards which exposed then to 9 million different "bugs" and their systems get overwhelmed even if they got colostrum.
I do not buy calves at the stockyards anymore.....been there done that for too many years. They have 2 strikes against them just by going through the sale.
