Color Test for Scours
(Contributed by Jean Baugh)

In kids:
Brown milkshake colored scours: Bacterial Enteritis
Green colored scours "Ahh, I found the grass and started going at it today!"
Yellow scours: COCCIDOSIS!!!!
White scours: "Too much milk momma!"
Red streaks in any scours: GET TO VET IMMEDIATELY! The kid is shedding it's gut wall and is in critical condition.

This isn't going to be 100% accurate but is pretty darned close to what you see in kids. Smell is important too, (face it guys, very few things stink worse than coccidiosis!) but the above is what we've used for years and always seems to be right on the mark.

Remember that bacterial scours in a kid, if not stopped within 12 hours will almost certainly cause those pesky little coccidia to take advantage and multiply over-night thus going into coccidiosis.I know I preach this every year to every one, but it has been so successful for us that I have to repeat it!

Watch the little tail hairs on all kids. At the very first sign of a wet
tail hair, give the 12 pound or heavier kid a 30 pound dose (pill) of SMZTP. Usually that is all you will have to do. Coccidiosis prevention at work here with the SMZTP as a healthy gut will be able to keep those coccidia from multiplying. Probiotics in the milk please and start those kids out on a creep feed and fresh free choice hay from the day they are born. Don't wait till weaning to introduce feed and hay.