Buffalo willnt get up but with help will walk around fine?

Anonymous-0 · Nov 24, 2013

have a odd case here with a little bison yearling. its a year old. I have been fighting coccidiosis with her but she just willnt stand on her own the past few days. We can lift her up and but her back legs under her and she will walk around eat and drink for a hour or so. Any ideas? never damage? hip damage from splits or something? We have shot her up with oxytetracyline twice and have been using corrid but have no idea. Something neurological?

notjustair · Nov 24, 2013

I've had really bad luck lately with cattle that had trouble like that. Vet never could give me an answer, but I am sure it wasn't the same. I sold three that were going lame, had two die, and shot one that couldn't stand. She was kind of the same but got worse quick and quit getting up. She was such a good old cow I hated for that to happen.

You don't say how big it is but it must be small if you can help it up. If you don't mind the trouble I say give it time. You've got nothing to lose. If it isn't suffering then wait it out. If it can stay up for an hour there's a chance things will play out. Is it stiff legged when it walks or show other lameness? May just be the muscle necessary to get up. Those may right with time enough to get by. Sounds like a "kill cow" at the sale barn (if it will walk lame).

Anonymous-0 · Nov 24, 2013

She is a bottle fed baby that was born last October. have had nothing but problems after letting her out to pasture this spring with the runs. So we brought her back in a few months ago and thought we got her over the hump. She has some meat on her bones and id say weighs 300 some lbs eats and drinks fine. Its not a hassle to get her legs under her. we get her up twice a day Just mind boggling to whats going on. I just watched her walk around fine and put weight on both legs etc etc... in the morning though she is laying on her side and kicking. once she is up she bucks the gate etc etc and acts normal. has to have something to with coccidiosis. We are doing a 5 day corrid drench again

notjustair · Nov 24, 2013

Almost sounds like a balance deal. I would be more inclined to say something is affecting her sinus or inner ear. Can they eat the same miacin crumbles I give cattle? Give her some in her grain. Sounds like she's one that survival of the fittest would have weeded out. I think I would butcher her or sell her when she's big enough. That's got problem delivery written all over it.

donjr · Nov 24, 2013

Try a good dose of pepto bismol- it may have a stomach ache from a deteriorated stomach lining from the coccidosis or a touch of crypto. That may explain the dizzy attitude and not wanting to eat much. Just a guess...

bison · Nov 25, 2013

One rare form off Coccidioses causes nerve damage, its called "Acute Coccidioses"
Beef usually die from it but Bison might behave differently...Call your Vet.
Seeing your calf is only 300 lb at a year old tells me it is stunted and will prob never amount to anything anyway.
I don't know how it ended up being bottle fed but if it was abandoned by its mother she prob had a sound reason to do so.
Only sheep or goat milk should be fed to orphaned bison calves, there's just not enough nutrition for them in cow milk.

my 2c

GregCO · Nov 25, 2013

I now nothing about Buffalo, but in my goat herd (ruminate) cocci can be a problem if not treated to the point that you get a good kill. Cocci has a hatch period of 15 days. Many of the treatments kill off the adult cocci but not the eggs. If you don't treat long enough to get the next hatch you will chase it. Treating for the 15 days ensures you get any hatch coming up. I have found that if I don't treat for 15 days the problem just comes back time after time and they grow slow. Cocci lives in the intestinal tract and robs nutrients from the animal. Scours are one of the many symptoms. I use 40% sulfadimethoxine and it works great. A call to the vet is worth the money as is a fecal test to determine just what you are dealing with. If it is a parasite at least you can identify it and go from there. As you probably already know wormers do not get cocci. You need a sulfa drug to kill them off.

Greg

Anonymous-0 · Nov 26, 2013

We have had two bottle babies over the years and have always just used regular cow milk replacer, calf starter and 2nd crop hay and they grew just fine. I know the expert call for goat or sheeps milk or whatever that is bs. The big bison farm that has 150 head can't believe we have that good of luck with them. I think this one picked up a parasite. Today she did get up on her own so we are making progress. her mother just dropped dead about 5 days after birth. Had to be a infection

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