Post by ladyliberty on Dec 23, 2011 14:14:00 GMT -5
I've got some questions about keeping a cow with Staph A.
Sally dried off with Staph A last December (we tried all homepathic remedies to no avail, ended up giving her LA-200, then followed up with 2 rounds of Lysigin vaccine). She calved 4 weeks ago with a humongous udder -- we milked a lot, massaged a lot with ointment, raspberry tea, and molasses water to relieve the edema and it did work. Her udder is "normal" now. We keep her calf with her at all times.
Her milk flows great through the filter, no clumps, no saltiness, no flakes -- just lots of cream!!! -- but we cultured her milk two weeks post-calving because we just wanted to make sure she didn't have Staph post-calving.
Well, results came back positive for Staph A. Two of her quarters had a low SCC and one had a medium SCC. She still had quite a bit of edema at the time we took the samples.
From all my research, and from what the vet told me, she will always be "prone" to getting Staph. So now my questions.
1. Is she going to pass this "tendency" or the infection to any heifer calves she has?
2. Even if we milk her after our other cow, what is the possibilty of her/us transmitting it to our other milk cow?
3. Does she always "have" it, or does it come and go? Is there any way, if we tested her milk every day for mastitis, we could sell her milk (only when it tested good)?
Sally is our best cow. She was our first cow, she's full of personality, she's an easy calfer, and she's the boss cow -- everyone, including our other cows, calves, and steers, would be very sad if we had to get rid of her.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Sally dried off with Staph A last December (we tried all homepathic remedies to no avail, ended up giving her LA-200, then followed up with 2 rounds of Lysigin vaccine). She calved 4 weeks ago with a humongous udder -- we milked a lot, massaged a lot with ointment, raspberry tea, and molasses water to relieve the edema and it did work. Her udder is "normal" now. We keep her calf with her at all times.
Her milk flows great through the filter, no clumps, no saltiness, no flakes -- just lots of cream!!! -- but we cultured her milk two weeks post-calving because we just wanted to make sure she didn't have Staph post-calving.
Well, results came back positive for Staph A. Two of her quarters had a low SCC and one had a medium SCC. She still had quite a bit of edema at the time we took the samples.
From all my research, and from what the vet told me, she will always be "prone" to getting Staph. So now my questions.
1. Is she going to pass this "tendency" or the infection to any heifer calves she has?
2. Even if we milk her after our other cow, what is the possibilty of her/us transmitting it to our other milk cow?
3. Does she always "have" it, or does it come and go? Is there any way, if we tested her milk every day for mastitis, we could sell her milk (only when it tested good)?
Sally is our best cow. She was our first cow, she's full of personality, she's an easy calfer, and she's the boss cow -- everyone, including our other cows, calves, and steers, would be very sad if we had to get rid of her.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.