Post by jacquelynn on Jun 1, 2007 12:33:07 GMT -5
Hello!
One of our Jersey cows (Cammi) freshened five days ago. The was calf born late morning. We milked her out that evening. We could not get any milk out of her front right quarter, and her back right quarter is really hard to get anything out of. The next day we called our vet and he said to bring her in. He diagnosed her as having scar tissue that covered the teat canal. He used what looked like a large needle, being careful to be sterile and clean, and went up the teat and broke through the tissue. The back teat he said to just keep working with and maybe the tissue would loosen up and milk would flow better. We worked with her for two more days and barely could get a couple squirts out of the front teat. After working for five minutes on the back we probably only got equivalent to 2-3 squirts.
So, yesterday we took her to a different vet, one who works more with dairy cattle, and he took a blade up her front teat and cut apart the tissue and forced it out of the teat. He then milked her out in that quarter. However, after milking her this morning we still could only get next to nothing out. This vet also said to try working with the back teat. But we just can't get more than about 1/2 a cup out. He is going to order some teat dilators that we can try on the back teat.
She is on antibiotics and acts great, except that her udder is soooo full. She is milking about 4 gallons a day from the left side at 5 days fresh!
We have just about given up on the front quarter and figure we will probably lose it. Any ideas will be helpful. We don't want to lose any quarters but are running out of options!
Jacquelynn
One of our Jersey cows (Cammi) freshened five days ago. The was calf born late morning. We milked her out that evening. We could not get any milk out of her front right quarter, and her back right quarter is really hard to get anything out of. The next day we called our vet and he said to bring her in. He diagnosed her as having scar tissue that covered the teat canal. He used what looked like a large needle, being careful to be sterile and clean, and went up the teat and broke through the tissue. The back teat he said to just keep working with and maybe the tissue would loosen up and milk would flow better. We worked with her for two more days and barely could get a couple squirts out of the front teat. After working for five minutes on the back we probably only got equivalent to 2-3 squirts.
So, yesterday we took her to a different vet, one who works more with dairy cattle, and he took a blade up her front teat and cut apart the tissue and forced it out of the teat. He then milked her out in that quarter. However, after milking her this morning we still could only get next to nothing out. This vet also said to try working with the back teat. But we just can't get more than about 1/2 a cup out. He is going to order some teat dilators that we can try on the back teat.
She is on antibiotics and acts great, except that her udder is soooo full. She is milking about 4 gallons a day from the left side at 5 days fresh!
We have just about given up on the front quarter and figure we will probably lose it. Any ideas will be helpful. We don't want to lose any quarters but are running out of options!
Jacquelynn