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Calf Diarrhea: References & Resources

Online:

The University of Naebraska-Lincoln has a website regarding calf diarrhea, www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/animaldisease/g269.htm . It provides producer with an overview of causes, prevention, and treatment of diarrhea in calves.

Books:

Large Animal Internal Medicine, 2 nd Edition

Editor: Bradford P. Smith

Mosby 1996

This encyclopedic book devotes 20 pages to a chapter called “Neonatal Ruminant Diarrhea”. The chapter summarizes pathogens involved, diagnostic approach, treatment and prevention of diarrhea in calves. The discussion of therapy for affected calves is specific and detailed. The second edition was reviewed, a 3 rd edition is due in July 2001.

Veterinary Medicine: A Textbook of the Diseases of Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats and Horses , 9 th Edition

By Otto Radostits, Clive C. Gay, Douglas C. Blood, and Kennth W. Hinchcliff

W.B. Saunders, 2000

Information about diarrhea in calves is provided in the format of individual articles about the pathogens that may cause the disease. The section on colibacillosis (diarrhea due to infection with E.coli) provides useful and detailed information about the treatment of acidotic, dehydrated calves with diarrhea of any etiology.

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