SMR
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About 2 weeks started having issues. The jersey my dad bought back in September which was down hill at the time any way because the guy that had her thought he could starve her into drying up even though she was already pregnant and not have to milk her, he instead caused massive weight loss and no loss of milk production. I did get her to stop milk about 2 months ago with use of a bit of peppermint for a just a couple days then in her food stuffs. She's been on a very heavily monitored diet so she'd get enough to gain a little bit of weight but not enough to make the calf huge hopefully. 2 weeks ago she went on an eating strike and refused to eat hay, started letting her out into the yard to munch on grass on short periods and she did OK with no poo troubles.
On the 1st she had a touch of scours, have had calfs with it before that we bottle raised so knew what it was right away and how serious it was. So I made it a point to put her in her lot and make sure she had lots of hay/water/little less grain since it was going right thru her and treated her with some meds and prioboitics on what the vet recommended for scours 2x(sulmet and priobios). No improvement at all. Continued to have scours and she had 1 large bull calf on the 3rd. Body condition has remained the same, but she's still got scours. She's not dehydrated yet, but I've been making sure she's drinking heavily and given probiotics along with. Vet suggested using corrid/kaolin/poo geller with electrolytes in it in addition to the probiotics I was giving seeing how she is and with her nursing too, saw a little improvement as its not like water any more but not much better and pretty well attributed that to the geller as that's what its suppose to do. He's at a loss as to what else to do for her rather then repeat treatment after this 5 day course is up and the break time is given, even though he's not sure that'll do any good considering she showed very little improvement. Does any one have any ideas?
She's eating grass hay (unlimited), very little greens (what she scratches from between the fence wire), and 2x a day 2litter pop bottle n half of dairy mix with beet shreds and sunflowers (per advice of vet to try to boost fat/fiber intake with out addition of lots of sugars, etc which might make it worse). She gets unlimited water. Vet said to wait until the scours was under control to raise her grain as it wouldn't do any good and would in all likely hood make it worse if we did increase even with her current condition. There is no chance of some thing being in the hay or grain; she's the only thing sick.
On the 1st she had a touch of scours, have had calfs with it before that we bottle raised so knew what it was right away and how serious it was. So I made it a point to put her in her lot and make sure she had lots of hay/water/little less grain since it was going right thru her and treated her with some meds and prioboitics on what the vet recommended for scours 2x(sulmet and priobios). No improvement at all. Continued to have scours and she had 1 large bull calf on the 3rd. Body condition has remained the same, but she's still got scours. She's not dehydrated yet, but I've been making sure she's drinking heavily and given probiotics along with. Vet suggested using corrid/kaolin/poo geller with electrolytes in it in addition to the probiotics I was giving seeing how she is and with her nursing too, saw a little improvement as its not like water any more but not much better and pretty well attributed that to the geller as that's what its suppose to do. He's at a loss as to what else to do for her rather then repeat treatment after this 5 day course is up and the break time is given, even though he's not sure that'll do any good considering she showed very little improvement. Does any one have any ideas?
She's eating grass hay (unlimited), very little greens (what she scratches from between the fence wire), and 2x a day 2litter pop bottle n half of dairy mix with beet shreds and sunflowers (per advice of vet to try to boost fat/fiber intake with out addition of lots of sugars, etc which might make it worse). She gets unlimited water. Vet said to wait until the scours was under control to raise her grain as it wouldn't do any good and would in all likely hood make it worse if we did increase even with her current condition. There is no chance of some thing being in the hay or grain; she's the only thing sick.
