Synonyms

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Name of the disease in English

Diarrhea of the D14-D30 period: information

The disease in brief

This is not a disease, but a group of problems that often combine to make a situation worse. This is therefore a herd situation, faced with losses in the 2nd age: At this age, the calf can change housing, group, feeding method and find itself faced with:

Neonatal infections subside, new parasites arrive

-Problems of unsuitable housing, with a problem that increases from Christmas to the first days of spring

-Poorly controlled breastfeeding with diarrhea at any age, all year round

-Hygiene and comfort problems in the 2nd age nursery

Clinic & diagnosis

This is therefore a herd problem which is faced with calf morbidity-mortality during the period D14-D30.

Typical sign of the disease

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Pictures

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Diagnostic formulas

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Differential diagnosis

-Coccidiosis PA20.4: normally in calves over one month old

-Diarrhea milky indigestion of calves fed with bucket VX17.1

-White Diarrhea of Suckling Calves VX18

- calf diarrhea due to cryptosporidia - VX12

-calf diarrhea due to salmonella -VX13

Confirm a suspicion?

Remember that this is a multifactorial problem; microbes and parasites are not everything. One, or better, several diarrhea samples from patients can list the pathogens involved:

Prognosis and treatment

Find an epidemiological-clinical lead and implement the appropriate treatment method.

Prevention

Prevention must begin with a risk analysis to be done with the breeder and, together, you must make the choices of action; you must first:

-Talk about long-term prevention strategy: HYVX-5

-Controlling diarrhea in dairy calves using the HYVX-9 breastfeeding technique

–Also assess the sanitary quality of calf housing: HYVX-4

-Check colostrum quality and freeze colostrum; HYVX-2

-Giving the right dose of colostrum at the right time: HYVX-3

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