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Eastern Iowa | I have one feeder right now who has been here since she was born but has been through the treatment chute probably 8 times. She's maybe 900 lb, and generally looks like garbage. She perks up with treatment, eats better, but never shapes up. She's never going to make grade, and I know that by the time the withdrawal period expires from her last shot she'll be looking really rough again.
As cattle feeders, what do you do with your chronic BRD calves? I definitely have a "good money after bad" feeling after about the third treatment and little improvement. I hate to let something die, so even if there's a remote chance at saving them I will generally throw the book at them just to see if it works. But what if it doesn't? Should they be isolated from the feed yard? Taken to the sale barn for whatever little they would bring?
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What do you do with chronics?
