OCR Text |
Show TREATING SCOURS IN CALVES Common Disease, Caused by Indigestion, Indiges-tion, May Be Traced to Faulty ir Irregular Feeding. Two kinds of scours affect young calves, common scours, which are caused by indigestion, and white scours, or calf cholera. Calf cholera is contagious, but If a calf gets the disease, it will occur a few days after birth. If the pens are kept clean there is not much danger from this disease, usually. Stalls used for calving purposes should be carefully care-fully disinfected after a calf is born. - Common scours, which are caused by indigestion, are much more common. com-mon. The indigestion may be traced to faulty methods of feeding, the most common of which are: Overfeeding, cold milk, sour milk, irregular feeding, dirty palls and dirty 6tables. When a calf shows signs of the scours, the milk supply should be reduced one-half, one-half, and the amount gradually increased in-creased as the calf Bhows signs of improvement. This usually will Gure them, but if it does not, feed about a tablespoonful of soluble dried blood, and stir in well with the milk. Dried blood not only acts as a tonic, but it has some food value, and Is often fed even when the calves do not have the scours. If the calves have the scours very bad, the formalin treatment is good. Add one-half ounce of formalin to 15 ounces of distilled water to make the solution. Then add one teaspoon-ful teaspoon-ful of this mixture to each pint of milk that is fed. This method Is very effective. |