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Did yours get the polio type disease I've read about?

Barry we were slow on the draw so to speak. One of the calves would struggle to get on it's feet. Usually it would in time. Some of the down animals we would get a vet on. The vet's did not know any more than we did. They would treat with vitamin B , with little if any success.


When our son called the state beef specialist, he said to cut the DDS by I think 20, or 30% That is when the cattle stopped dying.


I'm still sore, that is putting it mildly, at the feed salesman he was using. The salesman knew all along what was going on, and did not do anything.

"I'll carry in some numbers, with hat in hand, and hope to farm another year"

I've never been able to understand how and why it is that the folks who make our food live in a state of constant financial desperation.
Good Luck. And God bless you, God bless you all.

There is a huge ethanol plant here, and many famers feed that byproduct. I wonder if it has any sulphur in it? I've never heard of any problems.

https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/publication...s-of-the-ethanol-industry-to-beef-cattle

Unto itself, probably not. But the article at the link has a warning about additional sulpher, like in water..

When DDGs were a new deal, the high sulfur killed a lot of cattle. Experience has taught the suppliers to have it assayed and they blend it down if needed so that acceptable levels are the norm now.

Seldom do we see problems from high levels anymore, I think there can be "hot spots" in the feed that contain an elevated level. And some animals are just individually more susceptible to problems. Remember a case where a guy was allowing free access to a tank of the syrup product and got in trouble.