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Calf Scours---Treatement--- Help

I've been there for many a poop these last few days, and its pretty much just a plain brown, not a bloody type thing. its workin its way to mud, my husband says theyre pretty firm in the am, and then all day its kind of mud.

He's still that way, so today it was 3 anti-scour pills and back to a different kind of medicated milk replacer, fed a quart at a time plus a half bottle of water, he's nibbling his coastal hay (and sleepin on it) and looks for the calf starter. Its hard to keep him out with the goats and burro and horse, cause they eat all his food. I have to lock him up and feed him separately. I give him his milk in the am, then let him out, he'd had a couple of bites of the starter by then, and i give an electrolyte at noon, feed him again at 3, then again at 9. He is drinking water. He has the calf manna all night, along with water and hay.

The poop has made his hair fall off the backs of his legs!!!!!!!!!! GOood thing he doesn't mind the hose! I need to get some cream for that. What cream? zinc oxide?
 
My suggestion would be to try some milk replacer with Bio-Moss in it.
The bacteria cling to the protein in the gut and are shed out the back end.
Works great in mineral in areas where scours are a real problem and Vigortone makes a milk replacer with Bio-Moss, called 20WB. I don't know of any other company that has something like this, but you might ask.
 
good idea! I forgot, cause there are so many details, that I put pro-bios in it as well, and these ph-balancing capsules in the electrolytes. I have no idea whether they work, but seems as tho his acid/alkaline balance is out of whack. Im also switching from the dumont brand to purina on the milk replacer. slowly this time.
 
He's all right as rain! He still needs to gain more weight, cause that little go at it was hard on him, but he's happy, very active, and pushin me around. I thought that didn't happen til later, but hopefully he learns the word NO. I took him to a cow bingo event about a half mile from here, somebody had a horse trailer and took him over for me, he was exhausted when he came home, it was hot, too. A little overstimulated, but he behaved. He pooped 15 minutes after his bottle, so everyone was relieved, including him. I should have bought a square! Thanks again, y'all.
 
Audreyvgs said:
He's all right as rain! He still needs to gain more weight, cause that little go at it was hard on him, but he's happy, very active, and pushin me around. I thought that didn't happen til later, but hopefully he learns the word NO. I took him to a cow bingo event about a half mile from here, somebody had a horse trailer and took him over for me, he was exhausted when he came home, it was hot, too. A little overstimulated, but he behaved. He pooped 15 minutes after his bottle, so everyone was relieved, including him. I should have bought a square! Thanks again, y'all.
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PLEASE BE AWARE.... A STEER IS NOT A BABY NOR A DOG!!!

Better stop that pushing around on you NOW...cause when it gets to be a few hundred pounds....playing like that has killed many people. The critters don't know the difference between play and hurt.
 
I have been as tough on him about it as I can, he has that pushy last thrust on the bottle thing that so T's me off, he bout broke my finger yesterday. Then i have to go in and feed him his regular food after the bottle, and he's still pushy for more milk. thats when he gets the nose under my ash to throw me.. I have pushed back, yelled no, whacked him (like he'd notice) he is relentless for about the 4 minutes it takes to get him his food. Then he's fine. and after is fine too.

I have forbidden the running of the bulls at Pamplona with my husband and son who love playing with the darn thing, but I have no idea what the capacity of a cow is to learn. I know he has the goats scared of him, i must have missed what transpired, he has them trained.

He doesn't seem to take any crap from anybody, which is odd, in the horse-burro-8 goat hierarchy. Babies rarely demand top billing, and the horse is 32 yrs old, so he says "do whatever you want, i'm over here sleeping" the burro doesnt mess with him, which is odd.

My dog even went to snap at him, imagining she was protecting my son, and before the growl could come out of her mouth, the calf had whacked her into a summersault over my son with her 2 hind feet. No harm done, cept ego, but the threat is real, that one ugly mood swing from this steer, and somebodys goanna have a hurtin on. I do understand that. Now, what do we do?
 

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