Post by Nonesuch Melissa on Jan 7, 2014 19:44:02 GMT -5
I was all hopeful that this was NOT going to be a repeat of Poppy's udder edema that we experienced last year. Unfortunately I am wrong. When I left for work this morning Pops had a LARGE udder but a clearly visible medial suspensory ligament. On my arrival home her udder is blown up to twice what it was this morning and she is pushing a calf out the business end of her tiny little body. All my high hopes for an uneventful freshening are going right down the drain, as here we go again with severe udder edema, ugh.
I am so glad I had the foresight, while Don had calves at the vet yesterday, to get my Dexamethasone, Lasix and Oxytocin. Still, I am SO not looking forward to the battle that is coming with teats too fat to fit in the milker's inflations, pink cream for a week or more from all the broken vessels, barely being able to get the milk out after hours of trying, worries about her slipping ligaments and her udder being ruined forever. Gack! Somebody get me a tranquilizer!
This may not be the worst thing about milking cows but it certainly is the part that does NOT make me happy about milking cows.
So follow along with me if you would... and let's see if we can shorten the process of getting Poppy back to a normal udder, using a formula I found that is used by a small commercial dairy, this time with an early start. I used this treatment last year in desperation as Poppy failed every 'natural' remedy I had ever read/heard about and we struggled along for almost a month with her edema. I am NOT ready for a repeat of that so I plan to start treatment as soon as we get this calf on the ground...
Here we go.
I am so glad I had the foresight, while Don had calves at the vet yesterday, to get my Dexamethasone, Lasix and Oxytocin. Still, I am SO not looking forward to the battle that is coming with teats too fat to fit in the milker's inflations, pink cream for a week or more from all the broken vessels, barely being able to get the milk out after hours of trying, worries about her slipping ligaments and her udder being ruined forever. Gack! Somebody get me a tranquilizer!
This may not be the worst thing about milking cows but it certainly is the part that does NOT make me happy about milking cows.
So follow along with me if you would... and let's see if we can shorten the process of getting Poppy back to a normal udder, using a formula I found that is used by a small commercial dairy, this time with an early start. I used this treatment last year in desperation as Poppy failed every 'natural' remedy I had ever read/heard about and we struggled along for almost a month with her edema. I am NOT ready for a repeat of that so I plan to start treatment as soon as we get this calf on the ground...
Here we go.