Post by japperwoman on Mar 6, 2015 9:33:47 GMT -5
I sit here and hesitate to type this but here goes, please don't judge me. Cora is having a relapse of the mastitis from two weeks ago. It is in a different quarter. She is still eating and drinking but her quarter is as hard as rock and she has the shakes. Through the turmoil of the last episode she had I was forced to face the truth about the dear girl. Firstly, she is a turd, plain and simple. She is not well behaved and after the "almost trying to kill me" episode I knew I would never trust her again. She is a crappy milker. At best, I would get 1/2 gallon of milk a day from her when sharing with the calf (that is crap when she eats so much) (please don't try to make an argument that if she had grain she would make more). It is hard to justify feeding a cow so much and getting so little. Now, the mastitis. I had decided two weeks ago that there was going to have to come a time in Cora's future when I looked at her through more practical spectacles. That time is now. I justified not making the decision two weeks ago since she got well so quickly and she is bred back (she may have slipped the calf then, I still don't know). Now though, we are talking about another round of treatment or keep her well enough to get her to the end of the withdrawal time. The vet has recommended dexamethasone (sp?) which will most likely slip the calf if she hasn't already and spectramast intramammary. Again, please do not judge me harshly, this decision was not come to lightly. Even now, it is causing me a great deal of pain. Thanks for the shoulder to cry on.