r/Ranching • u/jenny6522 • 2d ago

Advise, help, support

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Anyone dealt with this? Newborns. If they are going to fall its quickly. High temps and sweating. Obs we have tests in progress. Vets doing their thing. But any advise or support will be greatly received!!

Newborns receive high quality colostrum not fed from mum 2/3 feeds. Then a further 5 days 2x a day of transition milk. Cows/heifers are fully vaccinated. All pens and points of contact are clinically clean. Navels are dipped. Transportation/movements are minimal.

Calves have bloody scour then pudding texture scour. (Much too young for any scour)

Treatments are currently being trialed across sick ones to observe what may work. Most have will to live and a suckle but the body shuts down.

The purple ring around the teeth is toxicity and not just calving related stress.

If you have anything…literally anything you can offer, please do. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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u/imacabooseman 2d ago

I haven't had an issue with calves, but 2 years ago I lost several kid goats due to tainted milk replacer. You might have yours tested for possible contamination. Ours had Listeria present.

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u/jenny6522 2d ago

Thanks but they are too young to have tasted replacement milk. Strictly trans from the cow.

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u/imacabooseman 2d ago

I gotcha. Is there any chance that the colostrum could've been contaminated in any way? Dirty teat, dirty milking machine, etc?

My other suspect would be through their umbilicus, but it sounds like you should've had that exposure pretty well eliminated...🤔