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Faunsdale, AL | MgO (magnesium oxide) boluses or drench is better than baking soda when they are sick already. Baking soda seems to help dairy cattle maintain butterfat production when fed with a high concentrate ration but it isn't the best once the calf is acidotic. Usually sold as a pretty pink powder or boluses.
If there is a slaughter house nearby you can get fresh rumen fluid and pump into them. I used to have a dairy cow that had a small rumen fistula that I could get some from. Just don't be beside her when she coughed!
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So if were feeding cattle in a custom feedyard and you kill...
