Post by Lannie on Oct 13, 2009 15:02:45 GMT -5
I don't know whether it's a "bug," or what, and I haven't had to deal with any sicknesses yet, so I don't know what to do. I separated him a few hours ago so I could milk tonight and put him in a dry stall with hay and water, and just a little while ago when I went out to check on everyone, he had a big gob of snot in one nostril. It was thick and opaque, almost white, and he was burbling through it. Then he licked it off. Eeeuuuww.... I went in and felt him over and he seems OK other than he didn't immediately jump up and try to get away from me. He actually let me pet him and scritch him a bit. He's chewing his cud, though.
This is not an insufficient colostrum issue, because he got plenty when he was born, and with me milking only in the afternoons lately, he's getting about 4 gallons of milk every day. The little chunk topped 200 pounds already and he's only a month old. So he SHOULD be perfectly healthy.
Rich is gone until this evening, and bad weather is coming in (I hope he makes it home without incident), so I can't get anything from the vet. We don't have a heat lamp out in the cow barn, but it's 31 outside and a few degrees above that in the cow barn. All the steaming crap in there is keeping the temperature up.
I'm afraid I might be bringing this on myself because I currently have no one that "needs" my care, other than maintenance (food, water, shelter). Maybe I'm just being a basket case and you guys will tell me to quit being a Silly Ninny. But just in case I'm NOT being a Silly Ninny, is there anything I can do, other than keeping him out of the weather?
~Lannie
This is not an insufficient colostrum issue, because he got plenty when he was born, and with me milking only in the afternoons lately, he's getting about 4 gallons of milk every day. The little chunk topped 200 pounds already and he's only a month old. So he SHOULD be perfectly healthy.
Rich is gone until this evening, and bad weather is coming in (I hope he makes it home without incident), so I can't get anything from the vet. We don't have a heat lamp out in the cow barn, but it's 31 outside and a few degrees above that in the cow barn. All the steaming crap in there is keeping the temperature up.
I'm afraid I might be bringing this on myself because I currently have no one that "needs" my care, other than maintenance (food, water, shelter). Maybe I'm just being a basket case and you guys will tell me to quit being a Silly Ninny. But just in case I'm NOT being a Silly Ninny, is there anything I can do, other than keeping him out of the weather?
~Lannie