Post by Tricia on Dec 2, 2011 9:46:08 GMT -5
Molly developed some sores on her front quarters in the spring. Then between the quarters. Hard to get to. I tried ACV treatment that an organic dairy recommended, then neem oil (not so easy to get on in that area), blue venetian violet (expensive). finally I had some luck with a horse fungal spray. It got 75% better then stalled. I kept the hair trimmed, washed it 2x a day. tried some herbal ointments, even athlete foot ointment.
A customer is doing herbal and essential oil balms, ointments, lip balms, all sorts of stuff. I asked her to do an ointment with neem oil and comfrey.
About that time Molly did her thing of running down the road in a snow storm, sticking her tongue out at me, belle ring in my face, then running down the road.......
Crapped all over during milking a few days later and was having flair ups of mastitis. I even ordered new rubbers for the milker to rule that out. Did LOTS of udder massage, hand milking...... well she was allowing calves to snack and chew on her and ...... the last straw was her crapping all over during milking (hasn't done this in a few years!!!) and mastitis in the front quarters. I dried her off with Tomorrow- but the bugger steers still snacked. So she is in the barn- got more tomorrow and a few days of the ointment on the sore. She has 1 sore up between the front quarters and one in front of the right front quarter.
So I think 3 applications of the ointment- I looked this week (so it's been a 1 1/2 weeks) - frankly had forgotten about it. It is completely gone. No scab, no pinkness, no sign whatsoever of the sores. If I hadn't been treating it since spring I'd wonder if it ever was there!
So would tomorrow treatments done this? That usually is just in the quarters, could it go system wide? or Did the ointment work?
Did drying her off allow her body to heal so fast?
Would an outside infection on her udder be linked to her mastitis?
yeah I should have had her milk cultured for Staph A but..... I didn't.
Anybody else with udder rot want to try this stuff? I'll send it to you.
The creator would be really excited if it worked.
I'm as is the usual lately- stumped with this cow. She is hopefully dried off until calving in May. Kept way apart from the steers- well until we get snow then we have a problem. Need chain mail udder guard. Or we'll be putting can't sucks on 2 year old steers (oh yeah fun with no squeeze shute).
We are working on getting more fence up so we have 2 and maybe 3 separate pastures in high tensile fence- so Molly doesn't go visiting again. Unless somebody would like to buy her....... She looks good with a red bow!
A customer is doing herbal and essential oil balms, ointments, lip balms, all sorts of stuff. I asked her to do an ointment with neem oil and comfrey.
About that time Molly did her thing of running down the road in a snow storm, sticking her tongue out at me, belle ring in my face, then running down the road.......
Crapped all over during milking a few days later and was having flair ups of mastitis. I even ordered new rubbers for the milker to rule that out. Did LOTS of udder massage, hand milking...... well she was allowing calves to snack and chew on her and ...... the last straw was her crapping all over during milking (hasn't done this in a few years!!!) and mastitis in the front quarters. I dried her off with Tomorrow- but the bugger steers still snacked. So she is in the barn- got more tomorrow and a few days of the ointment on the sore. She has 1 sore up between the front quarters and one in front of the right front quarter.
So I think 3 applications of the ointment- I looked this week (so it's been a 1 1/2 weeks) - frankly had forgotten about it. It is completely gone. No scab, no pinkness, no sign whatsoever of the sores. If I hadn't been treating it since spring I'd wonder if it ever was there!
So would tomorrow treatments done this? That usually is just in the quarters, could it go system wide? or Did the ointment work?
Did drying her off allow her body to heal so fast?
Would an outside infection on her udder be linked to her mastitis?
yeah I should have had her milk cultured for Staph A but..... I didn't.
Anybody else with udder rot want to try this stuff? I'll send it to you.
The creator would be really excited if it worked.
I'm as is the usual lately- stumped with this cow. She is hopefully dried off until calving in May. Kept way apart from the steers- well until we get snow then we have a problem. Need chain mail udder guard. Or we'll be putting can't sucks on 2 year old steers (oh yeah fun with no squeeze shute).
We are working on getting more fence up so we have 2 and maybe 3 separate pastures in high tensile fence- so Molly doesn't go visiting again. Unless somebody would like to buy her....... She looks good with a red bow!