Post by mazurzoo on Dec 25, 2007 23:21:16 GMT -5
Bella Calved Dec 2nd. It has been 23 days of very hard work.
Long story short. She calved, lots of edema, hard to milk, probs w/ machine, didnt get milked out real good the first week.
But had her calf w/ her 24/7.
At 2 weeks we took calf away. She prob had mastitis from the get go, or shortly after. She has it in both right qtrs.
We put her on 5 days of spectrmast, per vets suggestion.
Her last dose was last Wed, so almost a week ago she had her 5th dose.
We see some improvement, but the mastitis is not gone in either qtr, on the filter we do not see a lot of clumps, but some small specks. The milk is filtering a little slow. She has major let down issues in one of her affect qtrs, during the beginning of milking it gushes nice, but she remains hard and full then it will not let down until we remove all the other teat cups, or if we massage hard and squeeze the qtr she'll let some out.
We are also doing some naturals, special balms like "udder mint". Lots of massage.
We top dress her feed w/ ACV, Conlic Garlic, Acerola Powder ( a natural source of Vit C), and pro bios. The garlic we have been faithful with the other top dressings we have added in the last week, so they are newer. I am also going to start her on some CLO tomorrow.
I do have some injectable vit C, I have not used it yet, should I? How about injectable vit e/selenium?
This is not a light case of mastitis, we need to pull out some big guns, but do not want to do another round of meds.
She has been in milk for 23 days, and we have only been getting milk to consume since saturday (out of her good qtrs). We are getting very weary!
Oh, the milk was cultured as a common staph, not staph aureus.
What about teat infusing hydrogen peroxide? Any done this? Pat Colebys book suggests this.
Please help and encourage!
Long story short. She calved, lots of edema, hard to milk, probs w/ machine, didnt get milked out real good the first week.
But had her calf w/ her 24/7.
At 2 weeks we took calf away. She prob had mastitis from the get go, or shortly after. She has it in both right qtrs.
We put her on 5 days of spectrmast, per vets suggestion.
Her last dose was last Wed, so almost a week ago she had her 5th dose.
We see some improvement, but the mastitis is not gone in either qtr, on the filter we do not see a lot of clumps, but some small specks. The milk is filtering a little slow. She has major let down issues in one of her affect qtrs, during the beginning of milking it gushes nice, but she remains hard and full then it will not let down until we remove all the other teat cups, or if we massage hard and squeeze the qtr she'll let some out.
We are also doing some naturals, special balms like "udder mint". Lots of massage.
We top dress her feed w/ ACV, Conlic Garlic, Acerola Powder ( a natural source of Vit C), and pro bios. The garlic we have been faithful with the other top dressings we have added in the last week, so they are newer. I am also going to start her on some CLO tomorrow.
I do have some injectable vit C, I have not used it yet, should I? How about injectable vit e/selenium?
This is not a light case of mastitis, we need to pull out some big guns, but do not want to do another round of meds.
She has been in milk for 23 days, and we have only been getting milk to consume since saturday (out of her good qtrs). We are getting very weary!
Oh, the milk was cultured as a common staph, not staph aureus.
What about teat infusing hydrogen peroxide? Any done this? Pat Colebys book suggests this.
Please help and encourage!