Pneumonia Treatment

[ourflockof4]

I noticed a calf off feed last night when I did the evening chores. Standing in the corner by himself, raspy breathing, a little lathargic but still walking around. All I had on hand was Pen G, so I gave him a shot of that. I had the wife pick up some LA200 on her way home. I was planning on giving him a shot of LA200 tonight along with vit b and see how he does.

My question, How often can I give the LA200? I though the bottle said once daily, but I heard someone say use a 2 or 3 day cycle.

My though is to see how he does with this. I would use Draxxin but I don't have any on hand.

The steer is around 450 lbs. I weaned them 4 weeks ago. Free choice grass hay & corn stalks with a couple pounds of ground ear corn each day.



Edit, I placed this here instead of the emergency section because there are some extremely knowledgable cattle producers that frequent this area.

 

[jhm47]

Give the LA200 SQ. The dosage is 4.5 ml/100 lbs. Give him 10 CC in each of two injection sites. Use a 1/2 inch needle and give the injections on each side of the top of his neck. Be sure that the needle gets through the skin, you should feel it when it punches through. Good luck! These shots should last up to 3 days. Discontinue the pennicillin.

 

[ourflockof4]

Give the LA200 SQ. The dosage is 4.5 ml/100 lbs. Give him 10 CC in each of two injection sites. Use a 1/2 inch needle and give the injections on each side of the top of his neck. Be sure that the needle gets through the skin, you should feel it when it punches through. Good luck! These shots should last up to 3 days. Discontinue the pennicillin.

Thank you for the guidence. That was exactly my plan.

Would I be better off to isolate him also? Sick pen is in the corner of the barn, not much light or air flow, keeping water thawed would be a pain.

BTW, thank you for contributing to this site. I appricaite all your post. You have a vast amount of livestock knowledge & are always unbiased and to the point. Very good source for us "almost" or "wanna be" commercial cattle farmers/ranchers.

 

[jhm47]

Do you know how to acquire a "vast amount of livestock knowledge"? You do it by making almost every possible mistake, and then learning from them. There's a huge number of animals who would happily corroborate the theory that I'm the stupidest person to ever own an animal. Thankfully for me, they are unable to talk, and even if they could talk, they are now mostly deceased----- due to my stupidity!