Calves from the auction keep getting scourers,home remedy?

Question

Calves from the auction keep getting scourers,home remedy?

Answer 1

Treatment for scours is very similar regardless of the cause. It should be directed toward correcting the dehydration, acidosis, and electrolyte loss. Antibiotic treatment can be given simultaneously with the treatment for dehydration. Dehydration can be overcome with simple fluids given by mouth early in the course of the disease. If dehydration is allowed to continue, intravenous fluid treatment becomes necessary.  The age of the calf when scours begins is an important consideration in its survival. The younger the calf, the greater the chance of death.

If you just a home remedy and don't want to give an antibiotic,

just be sure to treat the dehydration and lessen the stress on the calves and get them on a regular diet as soon as possible.

Answer 2

depending on how bad the scours are, you can force a few sulfa pills into it's system and that will help clear up the scours. if that will not work use about 5 cc of BioMyecin once a day with the sulfa pills and that should clear the calf right up.

Answer 3

boil the milk your giving them.

Answer 4

It is entirely possible your caves do not have scours, but have coccidia.  If they have coccidia, and not scours, you will kill them, or at the very least serriously stunt them if you keep treating them for scours.

Take a sample of the manure to your Vetrinarian.  They can tell you if it's coccidia or not.  If it is, you will need to get the medication from the Vet.

Either way, keep pumping those electrolites into them.  It's the only thing that will keep them hydrated, and save their life.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 5

I found these 2 recipes on a post....I haven't used them.

1.5 Litres (just over a Quart) Warm Water

2 TBSP Brown Sugar

1 TBSP Salt

1 Raw Egg

1 TBSP Javex Bleach

Mix well and administer by tubing.

Here's how it apparently works:

The sugar, salt, water mixture is the equivalent of electrolytes (keeps the calf from dehydrating and provides energy).

The egg coats the stomach wall (and possibly provides some protein).

The bleach kills the scours bacteria.

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1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1/4 cup corn white corn syrup

10cc spectram

I usually mix with a quart of water. The recipe is an old friends and he says he uses a half gallon.

It works every time for me. Sometimes if they get real weak I may treat them twice.

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Found this one in a brochure---------

8oz Karo syrup

1 TBSP Salt

1/4 tsp Potassium Chloride

1 Gal Water

Makes 2 feedings for an average Holstein Calf