AndersenClubCalves
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Has anyone ever had a calf with white muscle disease? ???
FarmerWanna-Be said:I havent had a calf with it but I know some about it. Do you have questions?
hamburgman said:They recover quite quickly if you treat them before they are down. This is also caused by lack of Vitamin E, both these compounds are free radical scavengers and without them muscles that are extremely active (heart) become damaged and necrotic.
AndersenClubCalves said:hamburgman said:They recover quite quickly if you treat them before they are down. This is also caused by lack of Vitamin E, both these compounds are free radical scavengers and without them muscles that are extremely active (heart) become damaged and necrotic.
She was born with it and we have gave her the max dose of vitamin E we can. So we will see how she reacts.
justintime said:The only time I have ever experienced this was during a drought year when I purchased almost all my hay from a hay supplier about 300 miles away. We are in an area that has good selenium levels in our soils, but I never even considered that the hay we purchased was from a Se deficient area. As others have said, we injected every calf at birth with Selenium/ Vit E , once we figured out why we were having weak unthrifty calves. It is a very cheap insurance to treat every calf if you are in a marginal Se area.