When it comes to your cattle, calf care is vital. Healthy calves grow into productive cattle, ensuring a profitable herd in the long run and strong genetics, which contribute to the sustainability of your farm.

Proper calf care boosts immunity, reduces disease risk and directly improves the quality of your milk and meat production. With Four Lakes’ uniquely designed formulas, you can rest assured that your calves and cattle have everything they need to grow healthy and strong.

Scours in cattle and calves is not just diarrhoea, it is a potentially fatal condition that can quickly lead to dehydration, weakness, poor growth and even death, especially in younger animals.

This serious condition can be caused by infection or incorrect nutrition. Poor feeding practices, sudden diet changes and stress can lead to nutritional scours, which often progress into infectious scours.

Symptoms to watch out for include:

  • Loose, watery, yellow or white faeces
  • Calves reluctant to feed, showing depressed behavior
  • Sunken eyes and ‘tenting’ skin, which are signs of dehydration
  • Fever or abnormal body temperature

Four Lakes offers a wide range of calf and cattle products to help prevent scours and boost your animals’ immune health. These include Calf Grow, Electrocalf and CalciVita Recharge Super RTU.

Keep your calves healthy and disease-free with Calf Grow.

Effective prevention with Calf Grow

Four Lakes’ Calf Grow contains added selenium, vitamins and minerals, including MSM, making it one of their most effective calf care products for the prevention of scours. It is a natural coccidiostat that contains lasalocid that helps to protect your calves from various forms of scours such as coccidiosis and crypto.

This liquid vitamin supplement is given to milk-fed calves to stimulate growth and strengthen their immune system. It contains vitamins A, D3, E, K3, C, B1, B2, B6 and B12, as well as biotin, pantothenic acid, folic acid, niacin, calcium pantothenate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride and selenium.

Electrocalf can save your calves’ lives.

Quick action with Electrocalf

For the past 15 years, Electrocalf has been one of Four Lakes’ best-selling products. This three-in-one calf scour solution combines electrolytes, stomach binders such as pectin and kaolin, along with a range of vitamins and probiotics.

When your calf is dehydrated and sick, quick action is the best action – it can mean the difference between life and death.

Electrocalf slows the scouring process while replenishing lost electrolytes and vitamins and reintroduces probiotics to promote gut health. This oral rehydration formula can be fed with your normal milk diet to reverse dehydration.

It contains vitamins A, D3, E, K3, C, B1, B2, B6 and B12, as well as biotin, pantothenic acid, folic acid, niacin, calcium pantothenate, sodium chloride and potassium chloride.

CalciVita Recharge Super RTU gives your cows the immune boost they need after calving.

Keep your cows strong with CalciVita Recharge Super RTU

Once your cows have calved, it is important to look after their health as well. Four Lakes’ CalciVita Recharge Super RTU is an oral calcium supplement designed to support cows after calving or illness.

CalciVita Recharge Super RTU helps maintain blood calcium levels for maximum milk production. It contains calcium chloride for fast release, propionate for medium release, and carbonate for slow release. With added propylene glycol, your animals also gain the increased energy levels required after calving.

With trace elements such as manganese, zinc, cobalt and selenium, CalciVita Recharge Super RTU also supports reproduction.

It contains calcium, magnesium, propylene glycol, potassium, sodium, vitamins A, D3, E, B1, B2, B12, K3, B5 and C, as well as biotin, pantothenic acid, folic acid, niacin, copper, manganese, zinc, cobalt and selenium.

With Four Lakes, you have all the tools you need to keep your cattle and calves healthy, ensuring a productive and successful yield. Visit the Four Lakes website at www.fourlakes.co.za