Diarrhea in calves, part 2

Prevention and control of communicable diseases

1. to prevent enterotoxemia is recommended:
- Ensure that the calf is born, take the colostrum or first milk Redeemer of the first hours after birth, to acquire resistance to disease.
- Ensure that the offspring take clean water and power, and avoid stagnant water ingestion.
- Select in advance the tennis pair calving, so that mothers eat well, to produce enough milk for ences
- Ensure that the roosts are dry and slightly inclined to the formation of muddy evirar.
- Practice roosts rotation whenever they are dirty or puddles.
- Perform rotation grazing fields



2. For diarrhea atypical recommended:
- Ensure that the hatchlings make their colostrum within the first few hours after birth and breastfeeding ensure iaria.
- Use clean, dry pens
- Select fields with good pasture calving, for mothers to eat well and to produce enough milk for the young.

3. Coccidiosis is recommended for:
- Ensure the suction of colostrum by calves during the first hours after birth
- Ensure that the offspring take clean water supply.
- Ensure use of roosts clean and dry.

Treatment
- In the case of enterotoxemia, effective treatment can be achieved if the time to detect onset of the disease and can be used for this antibiotic. As treatment can be used sulfaro paleativo magnesium dissolved in warm water if laenfermedad have time to his administration, which will cause the expulsion of toxins together with intenstinal content.

- In the case of atypical diarrhea, immediate treatment is changing roosts and use of oral antibiotics

- In the case of coccidiosis, once the disease has diagnosicado, relaiconado symptoms with the observation of gross lesions of the intestines and colo of diarrhea in calves, immediately treat all Rias preferably with sulfa.

Prevention and control of the disease

- Practice rotation grazing fields.

- Ensuring good alimentaion of animals, keeping the flock only necessary, according to the quality and catidad grassland that has, thus avoiding overcrowding.

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