* "Cure all" remedies do not work in metabolic disease.
* The pitfalls of starter drenches.
* Natural, antibiotic free calf scour treatment.
* Why the thickness of Calol is an advantage.
* Why pain relief is important.
* Calsafe - a safe, powerful, concentrated calcium injection.
| Shotgun Therapy Does Not Work | 1 |
| Ouch! Diarrhoea hurts. | 2 |
| Calol Sticks to The Bottle! | 3 |
| Pain Relief In Dairy Cattle | 3 |
| Calsafe and Calol Work Together | 4 |
Every season we seem to have another magic product on the market, launched with a lot of hype and very little science.
The most common approach is to try and market a product that will treat the metabolic disease whatever the cause. This means trying to combat milk fever, grass staggers and ketosis all at once. This attempt at trying to kill all the birds with one stone is commonly known as shotgun therapy, and it just does not work. You would not expect your dentist to remove all your teeth just to locate the decayed one.
Simple science tells us that it just cannot work because of what we know of the causes of these vastly different metabolic diseases.
Merely chucking in a handful of calcium with an energy supplement is an invitation to disaster. While supplementary calcium and increased energy supplies help stave of the onset of problems, once an animal has a metabolic disease much more thought is required. Safe sex may limit the chances of picking up an STD but, once afflicted,
other means are required to ensure recovery.
Always remember that a cow’s body has ample stocks of calcium, in the form of bones, and the key to overcoming the rapid drop in blood calcium levels seen in milk fever is not supplementary calcium but mobilising the cows own vast body stores of this single element. Altering the acidity of the cow’s bloodstream, making it more acidotic, encourages this calcium store release.
most effective form of treatment.
A plethora of products came on the market, claiming to supply calcium and energy together, but they did not mobilise body calcium, only calcium chloride can do that, and they did not contain enough energy in a 500 ml bottle to be of much use in ketosis either.
Calcium chloride itself is a tricky chemical as all calcium salts are highly irritant to the gut and is only safe if emulsified in the special oil base of Calol, which has not ever been successfully copied.
A cow is far too valuable a commodity to risk with witchcraft. When we are speaking of science-based treatment, only Calol has articles in independently peer reviewed scientific journals attesting to both safety and efficacy in milk fever treatment. The rest is witchcraft.
Ever wonder why the rifle became the main weapon of war rather than the shotgun, or even why the early shotgun was called a blunderbuss?
It is now well accepted that the chloride ion in calcium chloride is as important as the calcium, the latter being there as a supplementary source of calcium for additional input. Remembering that the old fashioned name for ketosis was acidosis, it is quite clear that such acidifying of the cow’s bloodstream is exactly the wrong thing to do for this condition where supplying readily available forms of energy is the
