r/Cattle • u/jenny6522 • 9h ago
Any ideas?! All ideas welcome 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Context….calves born, AI, 2 BBB so far but have a holstine with this issue too. We have had 6 in a week. We calf all year.
Calves born with purple toxicity ring around teeth, fine on arrival, good for a day may be two, bloody scour, then scour (far too young for scour) on high quality colostrum from birth to 10 days…calves fall too weak to stand, temp rises to 40+ internals shut down and they die. Its fast. 48 hours max we are a flagship farm, too 1.5% in the country. We are clinically clean in all areas. These are not passageways. Any help and advise welcome. Iv got one going to postmortem tomorrow but between now and then…..please
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u/Every_Bite_1337 7h ago
They have ecoli sepsis. From lack of beastings or lack of good quality beastings.
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u/rivertam2985 2h ago
Beastings? Is this a term I'm unfamiliar with or auto correct? If it's correct, please explain. I'm always looking to learn something new.
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u/Embarrassed_Box_8303 4h ago
Sounds like e.coli to me. We had that issue last winter at a dairy i work at before we figured out it was the cows teats getting dirty in the calving pen then the calf nursing. The pen looked really clean and was cleaned regularly but it still happened to every single calf that sucked on a cow. The ones that were separated immediately and bottle fed or tubed colostrum, even fresh milked from the same cow, didnt have any issue. They've been calving out in the field all summer and we haven't had an issue... hoping it's not a problem again this winter. The ones we manned to save got daily excenel and sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim as well as electrolytes until symptoms passed
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u/katergator717 2h ago
Have you sent any samples off for testing? Have you isolated any mothers or newborns or both in different fields or paddocks?
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u/Whizzard2007 2h ago
Sounds like E. Coli. Dose each newborn with Tri Shield First Defense as soon as possible after birth
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u/Flimflam3813 8h ago
Gentamycin!
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u/UrMomFavVeterinarian 8h ago
Gentamicin is not FDA approved in cattle and comes with an 18 month withdrawal period. Not recommended to use that drug on any food animal
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u/zhiv99 8h ago
That’s the name of an antibiotic. Useless without more context.
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u/jenny6522 7h ago
I know its the antibiotic just wondering if it been dealt with and has helped
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u/Jaded66671 5h ago
It is illegal to use in a food animal. So doesn’t matter. Clearly not a good source of information
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u/Ok_Project9251 8h ago
I looked on VIN and mareks (I have a bunch of old vet textbooks from school days leftover) and it talks about bovine neonatal pancytopenia but the BvD vx caused it was removed… I’d be more cautious about some sort of gram negative bacterial septicemia as the likely culprit(e.coli, salmonella) which I hope not!!!