Post by mazurzoo on Jan 4, 2008 18:56:03 GMT -5
I hope you all dont feel like I am beating a dead horse. I'm about ready to beat a cow dead! Just kidding.
Anyway. We have really had our struggles with mastitis here. Most recently with our new cow Bella, who freshened with it. We have not healed it yet, we are still trying new things. Its wearying for sure.
My question today is regarding Lily. We have had her since May. Ever since we have had her, she has been having these flare ups. We only cultured her once, and it was a common staph mastitis ( not aureus). That time it was like really mastitis.
But for months on end now her udder feels great, her milk tastes fine. BUT when subjected to stress, especially vet visits, the very next day her filter is very very coated with clumps, stringy clumps, they feel like cheese curds, not slimey but rubbery. Lots of them, then the next milking will only have a few and the next day its gone. Well you all know she got into the grain the other day, and the vet came out and pumped her full of junk to prevent bloat and help pass all the grain. The next day, lots of clumps on filter...we drank the milk anyway, it tasted fine.
The CMT is a tiny thick on 2-3 qtrs, and pretty thick on one. But nothing on the strip cup, nothing more on the filter, after the one day of clots.
Am I to assume that she has a chronic case of mastitis, that she is just "living with" and that in times of stress she sheds this?
Could there be another explanation for this?
She does not have a hard udder, or hot when this happens.
My son said the vet just scares the snots out of her! 13 y/o boys are just so creative arent they?
I am SOOO discouraged when I think of all this mastitis stuff. What can this common staph do it u drink it? We are still alive! When this shedding thing happens, I do not give that to share holders.
I am having thoughts of turning both my cows into nurse cows, raising heifers on them and starting over in a couple years with heifers. I am really worried about eventually someone getting sick off of milk w/ staph in it. Like I said its not staph aureaus, just common but I am still worried.
Anyway. We have really had our struggles with mastitis here. Most recently with our new cow Bella, who freshened with it. We have not healed it yet, we are still trying new things. Its wearying for sure.
My question today is regarding Lily. We have had her since May. Ever since we have had her, she has been having these flare ups. We only cultured her once, and it was a common staph mastitis ( not aureus). That time it was like really mastitis.
But for months on end now her udder feels great, her milk tastes fine. BUT when subjected to stress, especially vet visits, the very next day her filter is very very coated with clumps, stringy clumps, they feel like cheese curds, not slimey but rubbery. Lots of them, then the next milking will only have a few and the next day its gone. Well you all know she got into the grain the other day, and the vet came out and pumped her full of junk to prevent bloat and help pass all the grain. The next day, lots of clumps on filter...we drank the milk anyway, it tasted fine.
The CMT is a tiny thick on 2-3 qtrs, and pretty thick on one. But nothing on the strip cup, nothing more on the filter, after the one day of clots.
Am I to assume that she has a chronic case of mastitis, that she is just "living with" and that in times of stress she sheds this?
Could there be another explanation for this?
She does not have a hard udder, or hot when this happens.
My son said the vet just scares the snots out of her! 13 y/o boys are just so creative arent they?
I am SOOO discouraged when I think of all this mastitis stuff. What can this common staph do it u drink it? We are still alive! When this shedding thing happens, I do not give that to share holders.
I am having thoughts of turning both my cows into nurse cows, raising heifers on them and starting over in a couple years with heifers. I am really worried about eventually someone getting sick off of milk w/ staph in it. Like I said its not staph aureaus, just common but I am still worried.