Rotavirus -- New Zealand
What is usually a daily 2-person, 2-hour job on [JMR] farm became a huge task for twice as many people when her calves were hit with rotavirus.
Instead of feeding twice a day, [JMR] was working around the clock tube-feeding electrolytes in a fight against the dehydration which can kill calves infected with the gastrointestinal bug.
"It was heart-wrenching really, you had all these calves so unwell the only option was to tube-feed them," [she] said.
Her Southland property had its 1st
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