G75-269 Calf Scours: Causes, Prevention and Treatment

Authors

Don Hudson, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
R. Gene White, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

1975

Document Type

Article

Comments

© 1975, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska on behalf of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension. All rights reserved.

Abstract

Calf scours or calf diarrhea: understand how to recognize and treat this costly condition. Calf scours or calf diarrhea causes more financial loss to cow-calf producers than any other disease-related problem they encounter. Calf scours is not a disease--it is a clinical sign of a disease which can have many causes. In diarrheas, the intestine fails to absorb fluids and/or secretion into the intestine is increased.