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This morning I went out to find my calf with swollen joint and he cant walk, he has bloody poop and he is bloated any ideas?
I got him in a barn. Yea pneumonia, i can hear it in his lungs. Arrgg..I think it was Nuflor that our vet gave us for our calves with pneumonia. Keeping them warm was crucial too. I had a calf in the garage covered with an electric blanket for 24 hours.
I will definitly look into this. But i just lost him. :-(We had a calf with navel I'll last year, we ended up giving it micotil, it is like a cure all for calves but is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to administer, if the tiniest amount gets in the human blood stream people die within hours. If it needs this, it's best to take it to the vet and have them do it.
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No one ever told me this.It is important to spray their umbilical cord with iodine (7%) right after they're born to prevent this.
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No one ever told me this.
Yea ive been readin . Very very useful. Thank uWe don't usually Iodine dip, but we don't calve in barns. Our herd calves on open, clean fall pastures which lessens the likelihood of navel ill. We've never had a case.
I wrote a couple articles for the site about it because of this thread.
http://www.cattleforum.com/
My local agricultural store only sells iodine dip for lambs, is it the same stuff and how essential is it to dip calf navels in iodine?Yea ive been readin . Very very useful. Thank u