Q: Age and breed of the animal.
A: Three or four days, jersey bull calf (picked him up at the dairy today)
Q: Temperature--normal is 100-103
A: 102.x
Q: Is it dehydrated (usually in calves)?
A: A little. Skin tents but doesn't remain so for very long.
Q: What and how much have you been feeding? Is it still eating and drinking? How long since it has?
A: I was told he had a "full bottle" this morning. At the dairy he had free choice water and chopped hay that looked like grass hay. I fed this evening and he drank a little over a pint. I have not given them access to solid feeds, but they do have access to water.
Q: How is it acting? Lethargic? Active? Able to stand? Head down? Eyes Bright or dull? Uncoordinated? Hunched up when standing? Distended Abdomen? If so, which side or both? Limps?
A: Was bright and alert was up and around a little bit this afternoon but prefers to just lay still. He is still feisty and not willing to let me drench him or make him take the bottle. But if you're not pressing the issue, he won't do anything on his own. He does hunch up when he poops. Is capable of standing so long as you don't mess with him and cause him to struggle.
Q: Does the calf have scours (diarrhea)?
A: YES! More yellow than brown, consistency of thick yogurt with a little chunkiness, streaked with a fair amount of blood.
Q: How is it breathing? Labored? Rapidly? Normally?
A: Seems normal to me for the age and heat we've been having.
Q: Any discharge from nose, mouth, elsewhere? What's it look like? Does it smell?
A: Nose. Whitish, opaque. Not smelly.
Eyes are teary, but not discharging.
Q: Any other symptoms?
A: No.
I picked him up at the dairy today around noon. He was up and around a bit just after he got home. The navel was dry but I hit it with iodine just to be safe. I gave him 4.5ml of LA 200 and 1oz of Nutri-drench. At that point he was a little scoury, and had a wetter nose than normal. I chalked it up to his age, combined with the heat, and being moved.
Tonight around 7 we went down to do chores and he was up (yay!). My husband got a half pint in him, and noted the blood in his poop. I got another half pint into him and notice the teary eyes and snotty nose.
I'm mostly worried about the bloody scours combined with the snotty nose and increasing lethargy.
He took his first half pint of milk replacer just fine and I pushed the issue to get the other half pint into him.
I'm going to mix up some electrolytes for him tonight.
Should I be thinking about some more colostrum (I've been reading about the thicker milk being beneficial in the gut), probiotics, coccidiosis treatment?
Thanks all!
A: Three or four days, jersey bull calf (picked him up at the dairy today)
Q: Temperature--normal is 100-103
A: 102.x
Q: Is it dehydrated (usually in calves)?
A: A little. Skin tents but doesn't remain so for very long.
Q: What and how much have you been feeding? Is it still eating and drinking? How long since it has?
A: I was told he had a "full bottle" this morning. At the dairy he had free choice water and chopped hay that looked like grass hay. I fed this evening and he drank a little over a pint. I have not given them access to solid feeds, but they do have access to water.
Q: How is it acting? Lethargic? Active? Able to stand? Head down? Eyes Bright or dull? Uncoordinated? Hunched up when standing? Distended Abdomen? If so, which side or both? Limps?
A: Was bright and alert was up and around a little bit this afternoon but prefers to just lay still. He is still feisty and not willing to let me drench him or make him take the bottle. But if you're not pressing the issue, he won't do anything on his own. He does hunch up when he poops. Is capable of standing so long as you don't mess with him and cause him to struggle.
Q: Does the calf have scours (diarrhea)?
A: YES! More yellow than brown, consistency of thick yogurt with a little chunkiness, streaked with a fair amount of blood.
Q: How is it breathing? Labored? Rapidly? Normally?
A: Seems normal to me for the age and heat we've been having.
Q: Any discharge from nose, mouth, elsewhere? What's it look like? Does it smell?
A: Nose. Whitish, opaque. Not smelly.
Eyes are teary, but not discharging.
Q: Any other symptoms?
A: No.
I picked him up at the dairy today around noon. He was up and around a bit just after he got home. The navel was dry but I hit it with iodine just to be safe. I gave him 4.5ml of LA 200 and 1oz of Nutri-drench. At that point he was a little scoury, and had a wetter nose than normal. I chalked it up to his age, combined with the heat, and being moved.
Tonight around 7 we went down to do chores and he was up (yay!). My husband got a half pint in him, and noted the blood in his poop. I got another half pint into him and notice the teary eyes and snotty nose.
I'm mostly worried about the bloody scours combined with the snotty nose and increasing lethargy.
He took his first half pint of milk replacer just fine and I pushed the issue to get the other half pint into him.
I'm going to mix up some electrolytes for him tonight.
Should I be thinking about some more colostrum (I've been reading about the thicker milk being beneficial in the gut), probiotics, coccidiosis treatment?
Thanks all!
