I should get at least a couple done tonight... My older heifer calf went and caught Phneumonia so I am going to be up all night checking on her. Hoping the antibiotics kick in fast and she gets breathing normal in a couple hours
I made one yesterday inspired by KreativeKat's 50/50 square in Gold & Cornmeal(love thosecolors!!)... hope someone likes it!
I hope you don't mind me trying to help. I hope I'm not seen as a "know it all" because I'm not I just care about people as well as animals and I don't trust doctors. I have a great book that has been 100% correct in all of its diagnosis of my problems and cures.
This is a quote:
"Vitamin A given to groups of patients h as shortened the duration of such infections as measles, scarlet fever, pneumonia, and infections of the eyes, middle ear, sinuses, kidneys, intestines, ovaries, uterus, and vagina. The vitamin has proved valuable too, in clearing up impetigo, boils, carbuncles and open ulcers, particularly when applied locally.
Thou vitamin A is usually well absorbed during infections, a water-dispersed preparation is preferable to that dissolved in oil when an illness is acute or diarrhea occurs. Physicians have given 200,000 units daily for six months with no signs of toxicity being recognized, though rarely are more than 50,000 units needed daily. Unless Vitamin E is amply supplied, however, the vitamin A obtained from foods or supplements, the vitamin A already in the blood, and that stored in the liver and other body tissues is quickly destroyed by oxygen; therefore, what appears to be a lack of vitamin A may in fact be a deficiency of vitamin E."
Now, how to go about getting large enough doses of both of those for a calf. High vitamin A foods: persimmons, papaya, cantaloupe, watercress leaves and stems, turnip greens are extremely high, as are sweet potatoes, winter squash (cooked pumpkin), spinach, dandelion greens (if available this time of year), kale, lamb's quarters (a green plant), mustard greens, chard, carrots and beet greens.
Wheat germ oil is very high in vitamin E.
Hope I'm not being a pest.
. The younger one my niece named Butterscotch. Bella was up and about this morning! finished her feeding without problem too. I bought somereal ProBios and a new eye medicine yesterday. Bellas eyes are looking better(less ulcered) and both girls are looking shiny and getting a little "padding" all over... still a ways to go though!
