Hey Cowman

[cswilson]

Was it you who had the recipe for the superdooper homemade electrolytes-I found a calf today lookin' a bit punky.

[grassfarmer]

It was Cowman but I noted down his instructions and have used it with great success.

1.5 litres water
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon table salt
1 raw egg
1 tablespoon Javex bleach.

Sounds crazy, and I must confess I missed out the bleach the first time but it works great and is cheap.

[cswilson]

Thanks alot

[cowman]

An old cattleman told me that recipe for scours and it works for me. The concept is pretty simple? Salt and sugar are basically what is in a commercial electrolyte? The egg coats the stomach and attracts the bugs to it? The bleach kills off the scour bugs?
This old fellow started using it when he had a BVD scour outbreak several years ago. Some other old boy told him about it.

[bnyoung]

Hey, would anyone happen to have a recipe for "butter of anthony", it's suppose to be great for footrot. Unfortunately no one seems to know what the ingredients are

[farmers_son]

cswilson: How did your calf turn out?