Post by sweetjoy on Dec 6, 2010 15:28:49 GMT -5
We bought a new cow a couple weeks ago from a nice little dairy with 50 cows (she was his daughter's 4H cow), and she had 2 lumps on her head, one under her head and one on the side of her jaw. Both about the size of a lemon. The dairyman said she had gotten into sheet grass as a heifer and those were lumps of scar tissue. The vet who came out to do the Tb test agreed with this. Well then today, she tried to pull her head out of the stantion, it rubbed against the spot on the side of her jaw and the lump "popped" and started draining pus and a little blood, including some small clots. It has that nasty infected smell, and its all swollen now. We tried putting some warm water on to soften it up and finish squeezing it out, but it was pretty inflamed and we didn't get much (only is sounds like it has air inside it) and she went down because she was resisting and we had her in the stantion not in a chute. (We don't have a chute). We plan to take her into the vet and put her in a chute and have it lanced and cleaned out (probably with an iodine solution?) today if possible or tomorrow if we can't get in today. Here are my questions:
1) What is the normal treatment for this? Will they recommend antibiotics or not? Are they needed - and if so under what circumstances?
2) Should we worry about the other lump on the bottom of her jaw? If so what do we do?
3) What do we need to do for her today if we can't get in to a vet?
I am posting a pic I took of her when we brought her home and again today after is ruptured.
Thanks all.
1) What is the normal treatment for this? Will they recommend antibiotics or not? Are they needed - and if so under what circumstances?
2) Should we worry about the other lump on the bottom of her jaw? If so what do we do?
3) What do we need to do for her today if we can't get in to a vet?
I am posting a pic I took of her when we brought her home and again today after is ruptured.
Thanks all.