• Administer 3-5 litres of colostrum within the first 24 hours of life.
• Poor nutrition and disease limits the animal’s ability to resist coccidiosis.
• Only transfer calves from the calving pen to calf shed after cleaning/disinfecting the calf shed.
• Severe weather, a change in feed, transportation, overcrowding and unhygienic conditions put additional stress on the animals and can trigger coccidiosis or aggravate it.
• Establish a pest control programme.
• Correct cleaning procedures using high-pressure hot water.
• Keeping environment dry during first week of life to reduce the number of oocysts present.
• Once calves scour, anti-coccidia therapy has limited effect on preventing the consequences of the disease. Setbacks suffered are impossible to compensate for later in life.
• Use Osmonds Ridacox to prevent clinical signs of Coccidiosis. Use 14 days after exposure to coccidian for optimum results.
