Post by donnaclyde47 on Apr 19, 2016 8:34:18 GMT -5
Backstory: I purchased our cow Sasha last August. She had a 15-hour tight trailer ride and it was hot out!
The first milking she had a ton of clumps in the filter. I wasn't worried, as I thought it was just stress-related. I was able to get rid of it within a week with Mastoblast, ProBios, and frequent milkings.
I'm not sure how often, but since then, every few months, the front right quarter has had some clumps, so I treat and it goes away. For a while I thought it was because I wasn't getting her milked out, because I might have a few clumps, but when I would come back to milk her on Monday (huge calf nursed her Thursday through Sunday) there would be no clumps.
I decided to have her tested by the LSU vets since they were out last week, and the quarter came back positive for Staph Aureus.
He said it's very difficult to get rid of, mostly since it's been going on a while. She's my favorite cow, super hardy (looks pregnant with triplets at all times) and although I want to work at getting rid of it, I also know my limits and will cull her if I need to. We just got our three month-old foster daughter last month (number nine) and I just have too much on my plate right now to worry about staph all year long.
He said my two options were: treat with antibiotics in... I think all quarters, at dry-off, and also do a systemic antibiotic, which I wasn't too excited about but am definitely willing. The other is to kill of that quarter chemically. That's the LSU vet's opinion.
My friend/vet said to treat with an antibiotic now, in all four quarters, before dry-off (a 60-day dry-off before calving would be around May 20) and then treat her again at dry off. She said she doesn't like drying off when there's clumps.
Yesterday there were a lot of clumps in the in-line filter, today just one. It's a crazy bacteria and it's bumming me out.
I know some of you have gotten completely rid of it, but I think you caught it at the beginning, and not eight months into it. Everything I read online says to get rid of it, cull. I cannot believe, with calves nursing between cows, that it hasn't spread to my other cows. The LSU vet said maybe it has and it hasn't shown itself yet.
I'm tempted to cull, but who would buy a Staph A cow? Nobody.... And she's not a nurse cow. We have another calf nurse off of her, but she has to be locked in the stanchion
Also, I never do the iodine teat dips. On her I need to do pre and post? LSU vet just mentioned post for some reason. After milking I tie them at the fence to wait to go to another part of our property, and they never lay down. So I always thought that gave the teat time to plug up again and nothing to go back up inside it. Guess i need to change the routine with her. I do milk her second out of two cows now, but a few months ago she had a cow milking after her.
Heeeeeelp!!
The first milking she had a ton of clumps in the filter. I wasn't worried, as I thought it was just stress-related. I was able to get rid of it within a week with Mastoblast, ProBios, and frequent milkings.
I'm not sure how often, but since then, every few months, the front right quarter has had some clumps, so I treat and it goes away. For a while I thought it was because I wasn't getting her milked out, because I might have a few clumps, but when I would come back to milk her on Monday (huge calf nursed her Thursday through Sunday) there would be no clumps.
I decided to have her tested by the LSU vets since they were out last week, and the quarter came back positive for Staph Aureus.
He said it's very difficult to get rid of, mostly since it's been going on a while. She's my favorite cow, super hardy (looks pregnant with triplets at all times) and although I want to work at getting rid of it, I also know my limits and will cull her if I need to. We just got our three month-old foster daughter last month (number nine) and I just have too much on my plate right now to worry about staph all year long.
He said my two options were: treat with antibiotics in... I think all quarters, at dry-off, and also do a systemic antibiotic, which I wasn't too excited about but am definitely willing. The other is to kill of that quarter chemically. That's the LSU vet's opinion.
My friend/vet said to treat with an antibiotic now, in all four quarters, before dry-off (a 60-day dry-off before calving would be around May 20) and then treat her again at dry off. She said she doesn't like drying off when there's clumps.
Yesterday there were a lot of clumps in the in-line filter, today just one. It's a crazy bacteria and it's bumming me out.
I know some of you have gotten completely rid of it, but I think you caught it at the beginning, and not eight months into it. Everything I read online says to get rid of it, cull. I cannot believe, with calves nursing between cows, that it hasn't spread to my other cows. The LSU vet said maybe it has and it hasn't shown itself yet.
I'm tempted to cull, but who would buy a Staph A cow? Nobody.... And she's not a nurse cow. We have another calf nurse off of her, but she has to be locked in the stanchion
Also, I never do the iodine teat dips. On her I need to do pre and post? LSU vet just mentioned post for some reason. After milking I tie them at the fence to wait to go to another part of our property, and they never lay down. So I always thought that gave the teat time to plug up again and nothing to go back up inside it. Guess i need to change the routine with her. I do milk her second out of two cows now, but a few months ago she had a cow milking after her.
Heeeeeelp!!