I had to laugh the other day. The Hired Hand was making some wise comment about how much we were feeding all the critters. I told him that it was so nice to have enough hay to feed everything all they want and not have to worry about running out. Hell, even feeding all they want we will have enough left over to last almost another winter. That's something nice.
Something not so nice, the coccidiosis problem I talked about. Still linger on. Again it's nothing serious but I need to keep doctoring a few. I would really be curious to know what set this off. Doctored another 10 now. I looked into treating the water so they all get some dosage but it is way too expensive. Cheaper to doctor the sick ones.
Cows and two year olds are looking great so no problems there. No more flat tires so I guess I just get to worry about the calves. Damn the bad luck. Would like them all healthy and nothing to worry about. Right, have critters and not worry about them. That's not going to happen, is it.
UPDATE: Spoke too soon. Had another flat tire on a pickup today. This is really getting tiring.
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One of the many sandstone formations scattered around the area. They are always interesting to look at and study. Taken 6/2/2006.
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I thought I would tell you a little bit about our experience with coccidiosis. We have had it several times over the years. We have never seen it in anything but weaned calves either. We used to own a property where it was evidently in the ground, and we needed to feed bovatec or rumensin yearly to prevent coccidiosis. Just to weaned calves of course. We would get by for several years with no trouble, then we would be lax on the bovatec, then bam, we would get a case of it again. I have seen a few times where we gave sulfa pills to the isolated cases, but usually we had to either medicate the water, or up the bovatec way up to end the problem. I would talk to a nutritionist before I fed a high level of bovatec. We had problems with cocc. a few years ago, and it was rank, cold, windy weather (which usually will bring the problem on, and it makes it so fun to treat) and we tried to leave the calves out on a small pasture, but daily we were bringing the calves in to treat. The calves would be so dehydrated from loss of blood, that they might run a ways and tip over and lay down, and a few didn't ever get up. We tried the amprolium(sp) in the feed and water, but to finally end the problem we upped the bovatec, and after fighting things for a month, that ended the trouble. Fortunately the replacement heifers that were troubled with cocc. bred up well that next summer, but it was costly in dead calves for us.
If you are pulling your hair out, I would reccomend talking to a vet, or nutritionist. If you have any more questions fire me an email with your ph.#, and I will give you a call. We have had a lot of experience with it over the years.
What I am doing is at a vets recommendation. He doesn't recommend that we treat the water. If I was bunk feeding them he would have me give them something but only feeding them hay in an open pasture, he just recommends doctoring the sick ones.
It's just frustrating.