Post by donnaclyde47 on Dec 29, 2016 12:48:03 GMT -5
I had the LSU vets come to do Brucellosis vaccinations, a dehorning, and to take a milk sample to check for Staph A in Sasha.
I bought Sasha from a closed herd that was tested yearly in Missouri. She had a looming trailer ride to Louisiana, and when she arrived the filter was FULL of strings. The cow she rode with didn't have any (but she later tested positive for BLV
I eventually got it to go away through nutritional support and Mastoblast. I can't remember the time table, but maybe a few months later I got a few strings again, then they'd disappear, and this continued until this past June when it finally clicked that I needed to have her tested for Staph A in her right front quarter. Sure enough, it came back positive. I injected Pirsue, I believe twice a day for eight days? into the infected teat and dried her off.
When she calved in August she had no strings, and hasn't since.
The vet did a CMT on all four quarters, and the one that used to have Staph A was slightly gel-like. He said that doesn't mean it's Staph A, but I'm still discouraged and thinking it is. I will know by next Tuesday and let y'all know.
I asked him about killing the quarter. He said if he were me, he would just continue milking and drinking from the quarter unless I see strings, and then don't drink again until they're gone!! I was shocked! Twenty minutes earlier he told me he grew up on raw milk but would never drink it now. We discussed drinking it from a herd of 70 cows versus a herd of 4, blah, blah, blah, and he said even if his grandpa was still alive and gave him some milk now, he wouldn't drink it! I was shocked. But yet, IF he did drink raw milk, he'd drink Staph A milk. (rolling eyes here....)
He said if I wanted him to kill the quarter, he could do it, injecting... can't remember the name. He said there's a slight risk that she could get bad mastitis from it - he's seen it happen - but he wouldn't be super worried about it. He said they used to use formaldehyde, then something else, and now they use beta-something, which cauterizes the tissues. He said it's not painful for the cow?
I'd rather kill the quarter than mess with having the calf clean up every time. He said there's very little risk of her spreading it to the other quarters, though.
Has anybody on here ever killed a quarter? It sounds so mean, but she's a very expensive cow and I'd like to keep her around!!
We'll see on Tuesday. I'll update then.
I bought Sasha from a closed herd that was tested yearly in Missouri. She had a looming trailer ride to Louisiana, and when she arrived the filter was FULL of strings. The cow she rode with didn't have any (but she later tested positive for BLV
I eventually got it to go away through nutritional support and Mastoblast. I can't remember the time table, but maybe a few months later I got a few strings again, then they'd disappear, and this continued until this past June when it finally clicked that I needed to have her tested for Staph A in her right front quarter. Sure enough, it came back positive. I injected Pirsue, I believe twice a day for eight days? into the infected teat and dried her off.
When she calved in August she had no strings, and hasn't since.
The vet did a CMT on all four quarters, and the one that used to have Staph A was slightly gel-like. He said that doesn't mean it's Staph A, but I'm still discouraged and thinking it is. I will know by next Tuesday and let y'all know.
I asked him about killing the quarter. He said if he were me, he would just continue milking and drinking from the quarter unless I see strings, and then don't drink again until they're gone!! I was shocked! Twenty minutes earlier he told me he grew up on raw milk but would never drink it now. We discussed drinking it from a herd of 70 cows versus a herd of 4, blah, blah, blah, and he said even if his grandpa was still alive and gave him some milk now, he wouldn't drink it! I was shocked. But yet, IF he did drink raw milk, he'd drink Staph A milk. (rolling eyes here....)
He said if I wanted him to kill the quarter, he could do it, injecting... can't remember the name. He said there's a slight risk that she could get bad mastitis from it - he's seen it happen - but he wouldn't be super worried about it. He said they used to use formaldehyde, then something else, and now they use beta-something, which cauterizes the tissues. He said it's not painful for the cow?
I'd rather kill the quarter than mess with having the calf clean up every time. He said there's very little risk of her spreading it to the other quarters, though.
Has anybody on here ever killed a quarter? It sounds so mean, but she's a very expensive cow and I'd like to keep her around!!
We'll see on Tuesday. I'll update then.