Here I go again asking for help

[Roy and Vicky]

I'm not sure if Duh has the scours again or not, but he has diarrhea today. A few times looked like butterscotch pudding, one looked like very watery stools. I stopped milk replacer and gave him a quart of pedialyte, go figure this town only has flavored pedialyte so he had strawberry for supper LOL I gave him one quart and I just checked on him and the stool looks light brown and puddingy again, so for breakfast I'll give him 1.5 quarts of pedialyte and see what it all looks like when I get home from work tomorrow. I haven't done anything different. He has been out in the pen for 10+ hours a day, twice a day feeding of milk replacer 2 quarts and grain with some molasses in it for a week now. nothing has changed UGH why is he showing signs of scours or is he okay?

Between life stressers and now him he's really stressing me out big time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cricket]

I'd really cut back on the milk if he's getting grain, too. Also try giving him hay instead of grass. It sounds like he has an overloaded system. Watery stools could be worms or cocci., but if they improve when you cut back on his feed, it's probably overfeeding. (Try to think of overfeeding a calf as giving chocolate cake to a child who has been vomiting--might help you harden your heart!)

 

[Roy and Vicky]

I'm never sure how much milk replacer to give him to go with his grain. Cut back to 1 quart twice a day on the replacer and slowly wean him off it? He enjoys the grass and munches good so i know he's eating and what the birds don't eat of his calf starter grain he eats about 2 cups or so a day.

I wish I had more experience with calves. I'm so glad I found this forum to keep us straight!

 

[redtailgal]

Do what your doing to get him over his runs. I'd take him off the grass for now. I'd work to start cutting back on the molasses as well.

Then once you reintroduce the milk, I'd cut back to two quarts once a day, and see how he does. If he is eating grass and grain good, it's time to cut back on the milk. When I cut back to one bottle a day, I like to do it in the evening because I think that filling them up with milk in the morning caused them to not graze as well. But, that's just me, others keep the morning bottle and do just fine.

There is no real reason to panic over puddin' poop, it happens to us at times. Maybe he got a bite of something that disagree'd with him

If it continues or worsens, I'd consider a fecal, he is at a good age for a coccidia problem and also worms. Of course, I do agree, he may just have an overloaded belly and his body is telling you it's time to ease up on the milk. It's about this time that his mother would start walking away some when he tried to nurse.

 

[Roy and Vicky]

the Puddin poop didn't bother me much, but when he lifted his tail and it shot out like water I was like ut oh, no milk for you tonight and we went and got pedialyte. Wanted to at least be preventative. There was a pudding poop in his yard last night, nothing this mornin so i'm hoping that when i get home it will be the same . I'm figuring tonight on pedialyte and if all seems good in the mornin then pedialyte in the mornin then 1 quart of milk tomorrow night, sound about right?

I'm using less and less molasses, only use about a teaspoon stirred into the grain then a drizzle on top to get his attention otherwise he just ignores it.

 

[redtailgal]

SOunds to me like your doing just fine.

Your plan works for me!