Post by janine/Ga on Apr 11, 2010 22:30:18 GMT -5
Oh no I can't believe I'm on the 911 page. Help please. Ebony is sick. She did not want her feed tonight and acted very slow. She finally ate some of it and drank a gallon or so of water. her plop on the way to the barn looked a little looser than normal. By the time I had milked, carried the milk in and gone back out she had diarrhea in several places in the stall quite a lot. Her ears are cold and she is acting very slow and sick like a sick child that wants their mom. I gave her more grain with honey and charcoal on it (what I give humans with diarrhea)but now she wont touch it. I have only had her for 2 months and don't have a vet for her yet. There is one in town that I could call. Her D smells typical for that sort of thing like human diarrhea. There have been no changes in her diet. I give her 10 lbs dry of alfalfa cubes soaked a day, 2 lbs rolled barley, 2 lbs rolled oats, 2 ls of bl sunflower seed,and about 3 or 4 lbs of calf feed from tractor supply (there brand) also I have been giving her a handful of cow minerals each feeding.It all equals to a full 5 gal bucket of feed twice a day. Then she has hay that she won't eat much of (it is Bermuda I think and pretty green not moldy ect...) She also has about 2 acres of mixed grass and a little woods where honeysuckle and blackberries grow. I just reseeded the pasture with orchard grass seed this last week. There is not any long grass out there she and our mini horse eat it all down pretty short. Which is why we supply the hay. We have tried 2 different kinds of hay but they prefer to nibble the short greens. The one thing that I have done different today,....is that I dusted her with diatomacous earth today to help with the flies ect. I did it when we first got her but only on her neck and a little on her back. I have also put it in her food before so why the problem now??? I use it on all my animals with no problems. I did put it on pretty heavy but its not a poison that is why we use it. Help.....I spent yesterday at the Er with my Mom (who is ok now) and today DH shot a nail through his hand we really did not have th$ so I did the surgery to remove it myself., and now my cow is sick... Sorry this so long but I wanted to give you as much as I know. I'm rereading Joanns book trying to figure whats going on. Can anyone tell me what to do? Thanks.