Post by moserfam6 on Dec 30, 2018 14:00:59 GMT -5
We bought "Vortex" 15 days ago. She is a Guernsey, 5 years old. She was very thin in my opinion. I normally wouldn't have bought a cow that seemed that thin but we need to dry up some other cows soon.
She calved the next morning with twins (2 weeks ago, Sunday December 16). (We knew she was having twins and due right away.)
Boy and girl were small, but both came out nose first and healthy. Birth didn't seem too bad. But Vortex did not stand and kept going down on her side and starting to bloat. We sat her up and gave her calcium paste and a Calcium+ glucose and other minerals drench and she got up about an hour later. Passed the placenta fine. She is a very docile/timid cow and I've fed her separately quite a bit to make sure she was getting enough food, but it never really seemed like she was really eating aggressively and like her rumen was ever truly full. But her milk production was good. We gave her a shot of Vitamin B Complex a few days ago.
We'd bought cows from the same farm a few months ago and they were wormy, so we also wormed her with paste a couple days after she calved.
The last couple of days she seemed to be less and less aggressive with eating and more stand-offish. She didn't eat much of her alfalfa baleage at milking time this morning. I usually don't feed any grain but I gave her a bit of corn to see if she would eat it. She did, but not aggressively. I took her temp and it was 103.2 and she coughed a light phlegmy cough a couple of times this morning when she came into the parlor and started eating But no obvious nasal discharge.
I just took her temperature again (about 3 hours later) and it was up to 104.9. She had a small puddle of rusty colored bloody discharge below her. I'm assuming she is still just cleaning out a bit, or it is possible she has an infection in her uterus/vagina. It didn't smell particularly off and no signs of pus. She did slowly eat some of the alfalfa I put in front if her before the other cows came and stole it. I need to pull her into the barn after I get some fresh bedding layed.
I will hopefully be able to get her into the vet tomorrow, but trying to decide what I should give her today or if I need to find a vet to make a farm visit today or at least give me some meds today.
I'm worried about possibly pneumonia and/or some other infection causing the fever but also possibly that she still has low levels of blood calcium and/or a partial twist in her gut. Most likely just an infection that has gradually gotten worse and worse??
Only one of the vets in our area will deal with a displaced abomasum. I could try to roll her. But my first concern is getting the right antibiotic in her.
I have Duramycin 72-200, Bio-Mycin 200, baytril-100 (says not to give to lactating cows) and one 9 ml syringe of banamine (50mg/ml). Or I can see if a friend has some other prescription meds if I can't get in to a vet today. I can also give her more calcium paste or drench. We also have IV calcium.
Suggestions?
She calved the next morning with twins (2 weeks ago, Sunday December 16). (We knew she was having twins and due right away.)
Boy and girl were small, but both came out nose first and healthy. Birth didn't seem too bad. But Vortex did not stand and kept going down on her side and starting to bloat. We sat her up and gave her calcium paste and a Calcium+ glucose and other minerals drench and she got up about an hour later. Passed the placenta fine. She is a very docile/timid cow and I've fed her separately quite a bit to make sure she was getting enough food, but it never really seemed like she was really eating aggressively and like her rumen was ever truly full. But her milk production was good. We gave her a shot of Vitamin B Complex a few days ago.
We'd bought cows from the same farm a few months ago and they were wormy, so we also wormed her with paste a couple days after she calved.
The last couple of days she seemed to be less and less aggressive with eating and more stand-offish. She didn't eat much of her alfalfa baleage at milking time this morning. I usually don't feed any grain but I gave her a bit of corn to see if she would eat it. She did, but not aggressively. I took her temp and it was 103.2 and she coughed a light phlegmy cough a couple of times this morning when she came into the parlor and started eating But no obvious nasal discharge.
I just took her temperature again (about 3 hours later) and it was up to 104.9. She had a small puddle of rusty colored bloody discharge below her. I'm assuming she is still just cleaning out a bit, or it is possible she has an infection in her uterus/vagina. It didn't smell particularly off and no signs of pus. She did slowly eat some of the alfalfa I put in front if her before the other cows came and stole it. I need to pull her into the barn after I get some fresh bedding layed.
I will hopefully be able to get her into the vet tomorrow, but trying to decide what I should give her today or if I need to find a vet to make a farm visit today or at least give me some meds today.
I'm worried about possibly pneumonia and/or some other infection causing the fever but also possibly that she still has low levels of blood calcium and/or a partial twist in her gut. Most likely just an infection that has gradually gotten worse and worse??
Only one of the vets in our area will deal with a displaced abomasum. I could try to roll her. But my first concern is getting the right antibiotic in her.
I have Duramycin 72-200, Bio-Mycin 200, baytril-100 (says not to give to lactating cows) and one 9 ml syringe of banamine (50mg/ml). Or I can see if a friend has some other prescription meds if I can't get in to a vet today. I can also give her more calcium paste or drench. We also have IV calcium.
Suggestions?