Cattle

Scours at grass could be Crypto


28 May 2009

Together with rotavirus, cryptosporidia is one of the most common causes of calf scour in UK dairy and suckler herds. But scours caused by cryptosporidia are not always confined to housed calves.  Calves calving outside in the late spring are also susceptible to infection between one and two weeks of age, particularly if conditions underfoot are muddy around ring feeders.

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