Post by Jessika on Feb 26, 2010 7:33:44 GMT -5
I'm really bummed and could use a refresher on ketosis.
She has had it rough since calving starting with a mal positioned calf. Her baby came out upside down. All I could see were upside down hooves, then the underside of her chin and then her throat if that makes sense. Instead of being in the classic " dive " position, she was belly up, and then got locked at the hips. I helped pull but was very careful to pull down, and gently with contractions.
She escaped milk fever, but had a fall the day after calving, and was found half in/half out of a stall and it took about an hour for her to limp around again. Her foreleg was injured, but she soon began walking--albeit slowly-- around on it and doesn't limp.
Then exactly a week after calving, I notice she just looks kinda dull and droopy, but still alert. I could smell the ketones in her milk
and double checked with Ayla's ketone strips.
THEN she comes in that night with a messy udder, one teat that has been stepped on, and you guessed it--mastitis. I'm treating that fairly aggressively.
I'm not sure if she has ketosis as a post calving metabolic issue or if its a result of being injured and just not getting to the round bale enough. She does eat all her grain, and I've been pouring molasses all over it.
Of course it is rainy, muddy slop out there right now. I can put her in the tie stall, but I'm not sure if that's okay with her injury.
What makes me nervous is she has to step up to get in the milk parlor. Before she almost ran in, now she completely stops and s-l-o-w-l-y climbs in.
When she stands she isn't hunched up at all, and walks on flat ground fine, maybe a bit slow. She passed her afterbirth just fine.
What do you think?
Jessika
She has had it rough since calving starting with a mal positioned calf. Her baby came out upside down. All I could see were upside down hooves, then the underside of her chin and then her throat if that makes sense. Instead of being in the classic " dive " position, she was belly up, and then got locked at the hips. I helped pull but was very careful to pull down, and gently with contractions.
She escaped milk fever, but had a fall the day after calving, and was found half in/half out of a stall and it took about an hour for her to limp around again. Her foreleg was injured, but she soon began walking--albeit slowly-- around on it and doesn't limp.
Then exactly a week after calving, I notice she just looks kinda dull and droopy, but still alert. I could smell the ketones in her milk
and double checked with Ayla's ketone strips.
THEN she comes in that night with a messy udder, one teat that has been stepped on, and you guessed it--mastitis. I'm treating that fairly aggressively.
I'm not sure if she has ketosis as a post calving metabolic issue or if its a result of being injured and just not getting to the round bale enough. She does eat all her grain, and I've been pouring molasses all over it.
Of course it is rainy, muddy slop out there right now. I can put her in the tie stall, but I'm not sure if that's okay with her injury.
What makes me nervous is she has to step up to get in the milk parlor. Before she almost ran in, now she completely stops and s-l-o-w-l-y climbs in.
When she stands she isn't hunched up at all, and walks on flat ground fine, maybe a bit slow. She passed her afterbirth just fine.
What do you think?
Jessika