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Bremen, KS. | It is my understanding that probiotics are the opposite of antibiotics. (pro vs anti)
With antibiotics, we are killing all the "bugs," good and bad. So if we happen to skimp on dosage and allow some bugs to live and therefore reproduce super bad "bugs" that don't die with normal dosage of the usually used antibiotics, this would cause the resistance issue.
Whereas with probiotics, one is adding more good "bugs"(live culture like silage inoculant or yogurt in humans) to their immune system to fight against the bad "bugs." So I don't think there'd be a resistance issue here, and the calf doesn't have to regenerate good "bugs" after treatment.
At any rate, the probiotic use has been successful for me so far. But I've got LA200 on hand just in case.
I'm still looking to see if anybody else has used or is using probiotics and with what results.
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What are you guys using for Pnomnia in calves?
