Synonyms

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Name of the disease in English

Diarrhea of calves older than 1 month

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 beyond the age of one month: At this age, the calf can change housing, group, feeding method and find itself faced with:

-New parasites settling in the nursery

-Problems of unsuitable housing, hygiene and comfort in the nursery: A problem that increases from Christmas to the first days of spring

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

Clinic & diagnosis

This is therefore a herd problem which is faced with calf morbidity-mortality during the period D30-D60.

Typical sign of the disease

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Diagnostic formulas

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Differential diagnosis

-Coccidiosis PA20.4

-Strongyloidosis PA14.1

-Trichuriosis PA14

-Giardiasis VX22.2

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

-White Diarrhea of Suckling Calves VX18

-Acute viral bronchopneumonia -RS26 onset

-Acute BVD of the calf VX15

-Calf diarrhea due to salmonella -VX13

 

Confirm a suspicion?

Do not forget that this is a multifactorial problem; microbes and parasites are not everything. One or better several diarrhea samples from patients allow us to 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

-Avoid the ingestion of feed soiled with faeces, for example straw from the litter which is preferentially consumed when the hay is too sharp for the calves' mouths.

-Avoid excessive licking of hair soiled by fecal matter, due to the presence of external parasites (lice, scabies).

 

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