Post by grahamnco on Mar 4, 2012 14:33:41 GMT -5
I am going to give a run down of where we have been, before I give current problem.
Wednesday 10 pm. - Still born calf, had been dead quite a while already starting to smell.
Thursday- noticed afterbirth was not expelling
Friday, Saturday, Sunday - had vet tech come out and insert uterine bolus and help work afterbirth...
Saturday starting passing after birth...she was doing great.
She has a some flecks in her back two quarters. No fever, pain and it taste good. No salty taste. Been treating with homeopathy. The only sign of mastitis is the flecks.
Saturday p.m. milked again around 9 p.m. It was dark. She was laying down when we came in to milk. She jumped right up and came in. She was holding her head really high and I had never seen this before.
Got up this morning. She wasn't at the gate like normal, she was standing out in the pasture and she looked like a bag of bones. She was very lethargic, seemed disoriented, and kept her head held very high.
I have been giving her timothy alfalfa pellets, she ate about 5 coffee cans of that this morning. nibbling... We gave gave her an IV of Dextrose(vain) and Calcium (under skin) She perked up pretty quick.
I have dried molasses and fresh hay out there for her to eat and she is not eating. Nibble now and then, she won't lay down and chew her cud. The Vet tech checked her rumen and said it sounded good.
I have a call into a vet, but he isn't always very good at calling back.
It's 2:30 she is still just standing around being lethargic,... not eating.
Just peeked out the window, she is chewing her cud, but she is standing up and pawing at the ground throwing dirt on her belly
Wednesday 10 pm. - Still born calf, had been dead quite a while already starting to smell.
Thursday- noticed afterbirth was not expelling
Friday, Saturday, Sunday - had vet tech come out and insert uterine bolus and help work afterbirth...
Saturday starting passing after birth...she was doing great.
She has a some flecks in her back two quarters. No fever, pain and it taste good. No salty taste. Been treating with homeopathy. The only sign of mastitis is the flecks.
Saturday p.m. milked again around 9 p.m. It was dark. She was laying down when we came in to milk. She jumped right up and came in. She was holding her head really high and I had never seen this before.
Got up this morning. She wasn't at the gate like normal, she was standing out in the pasture and she looked like a bag of bones. She was very lethargic, seemed disoriented, and kept her head held very high.
I have been giving her timothy alfalfa pellets, she ate about 5 coffee cans of that this morning. nibbling... We gave gave her an IV of Dextrose(vain) and Calcium (under skin) She perked up pretty quick.
I have dried molasses and fresh hay out there for her to eat and she is not eating. Nibble now and then, she won't lay down and chew her cud. The Vet tech checked her rumen and said it sounded good.
I have a call into a vet, but he isn't always very good at calling back.
It's 2:30 she is still just standing around being lethargic,... not eating.
Just peeked out the window, she is chewing her cud, but she is standing up and pawing at the ground throwing dirt on her belly