Post by donnaclyde47 on May 22, 2024 9:07:25 GMT -5
My eight year-old Guernsey showed up with a baseball size hard spot in her left front quarter about a week after calving. I’ve never had one issue with her. I put Dynamint on it thinking it was just bad edema. A few days of no change and my vet friend gave me Spectramast, two doses to put in. She said text her in a few days to see if it goes down. Three or four days after that, no change. So she came to my house to check her out. She gave her a shot of oxytocin and put a little drain-like thing in the teat and sat there for about an hour, just trying to work the milk out and get it moving through. Older colostrum came out too. Then she gave her another dose of Spectramast, said give it a few days and see if it goes down more. She felt good about it, she said, and thought it would go down.
Well, it never changed one bit. I texted her and told her. She said we may have to lance it! (Gulp!)
Then I decided to see if I could do something on my own to avoid lancing! I decided to put cold laser therapy on it every time I milked. I also looked up in my Homeopathy for the Herd book and got a remedy for abscesses. (And what’s the difference between an abscess and just a hard rock area in the udder? What is an abscess made of?!)
And lastly, I called the Synergy Animal Products guy, and he said he dealt with that once, and instructed me to put Yellow Jacket on that quarter, rubbing it in good, and then on top of that the Superior Cow cream. Do that for four days, then just the cow cream.
So I started all that a few days ago at my evening milking, and I’m telling you, the very next morning I noticed a difference! And every single milking since I’ve noticed it getting smaller and smaller, and it’s almost gone! I’m SO grateful, with all we’ve been going through (two dead calves, foster calves, blah, blah, ketosis now in another cow). So I don’t know if it was the light therapy, homeopathy, or the Yellow Jacket/Superior Cow cream, but I’m just grateful!
I’ve been dumping her milk for a few weeks. Any reason I can’t drink it, now that it’s almost gone? And where is the abscess going? Is her body absorbing it again, or it’s going into the milk?
Well, it never changed one bit. I texted her and told her. She said we may have to lance it! (Gulp!)
Then I decided to see if I could do something on my own to avoid lancing! I decided to put cold laser therapy on it every time I milked. I also looked up in my Homeopathy for the Herd book and got a remedy for abscesses. (And what’s the difference between an abscess and just a hard rock area in the udder? What is an abscess made of?!)
And lastly, I called the Synergy Animal Products guy, and he said he dealt with that once, and instructed me to put Yellow Jacket on that quarter, rubbing it in good, and then on top of that the Superior Cow cream. Do that for four days, then just the cow cream.
So I started all that a few days ago at my evening milking, and I’m telling you, the very next morning I noticed a difference! And every single milking since I’ve noticed it getting smaller and smaller, and it’s almost gone! I’m SO grateful, with all we’ve been going through (two dead calves, foster calves, blah, blah, ketosis now in another cow). So I don’t know if it was the light therapy, homeopathy, or the Yellow Jacket/Superior Cow cream, but I’m just grateful!
I’ve been dumping her milk for a few weeks. Any reason I can’t drink it, now that it’s almost gone? And where is the abscess going? Is her body absorbing it again, or it’s going into the milk?