Rotavirus, coronavirus or Cryptosporidium cause 95% of infectious calf scours cases in calves under three weeks of age, according to Armstrong. These three agents can also be present in combination.

Preventing scours (diarrhea or dysentery) in calves is a challenge for cow-calf producers. Adequate colostrum intake is the best protection for the newborn calf. The mother cow’s colostrum is… ...

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Calves affected with scours are twice as likely to develop pneumonia. Growth rates are also affected. According to a Luke O’Grady paper in 2004, calves with neonatal scour lost 26.5kg ...

CALF diarrhoea is caused by many viruses, but some of the commonest causes of calf scour are either rotavirus or coronavirus, according to the latest *NADIS health bulletin for Scotland. The economic ...

If you find calves that show signs of pneumonia such as rapid breathing, laying down and being reluctant to rise, and having ...

Scours & Pneumonia Treatment is a complete, medicated calf milk replacer. Scours & Pneumonia Treatment Concentrate is a medicated feed to be mixed with dry, non-medicated milk replacer powder to ...

A big increase in the shelf-life of a widely used calf scour vaccine could save medicine wastage and money on beef and dairy farms. Previously, Bovilis Rotavec Corona, used to immunise pregnant ...

IN THE first three weeks of life calf scours are the biggest threat to the health and survival of suckled calves. Calving is a high risk period for beef calves, especially those of heavier ...

Calf scours results in sickness, poor performance, medical expenses and death. Scours is a complex disease with many inter-related causes. Agent, ...

Calves gain protection by drinking the fortified colostrum from their vaccinated mothers. “On the old license, this vaccine needed to be used within eight hours of opening, so this will be a ...