[Dbinn]

Please help a newbie. I have a bottle calf. Turned a week old today. Please clarify how much I should be bottle feeding her. I have a 4 pint bottle. I have been giving 2 full bottles 2x daily. I’m giving medicated milk replacer-it is milk based not soy based. She is having what I call “mucus” stools. I started putting an egg in her bottle today. (I had been using Cider vinegar but when her stools changed I switched to an egg).
thanks.

 

[TX_CalfMama]

the biggest thing I have learned about raising bottle calves is less is more. if they are scouring lower the milk. I get all my calves at a few days old. I start at 1/2 a bottle then increase weekly. the producer gets them from has a saying "better a skinnier healthy calf than a fat dead one. also for scouring they need electrolytes. keep them hydrated as they work through it. check your feed store they should have scour treatments. so I would lower the milk and give electrolytes.

Not saying I know everything but this works for me.

 

[Amy]

Please help a newbie. I have a bottle calf. Turned a week old today. Please clarify how much I should be bottle feeding her. I have a 4 pint bottle. I have been giving 2 full bottles 2x daily. I’m giving medicated milk replacer-it is milk based not soy based. She is having what I call “mucus” stools. I started putting an egg in her bottle today. (I had been using Cider vinegar but when her stools changed I switched to an egg).
thanks.

I too have a bottle fed calf and she had scours. I gave her Specto-Gard ( per our large animal vet) dose as recommended on back and scours went away and she is doing great