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A cow with a broken leg is never good. But, contingent on the placement & severity, calves can heal amazingly well with nothing but a good mama and benign neglect. I have one this year that presumably got stepped on and was broken at/around the knee. She wasn't even a week old, and I wondered...

Only other down cow I had from a breeding injury was probably 12 years ago and it didn't turn out well. We did lift her, and I regret that. I did have first calf heifer down for about 3 days but all I did was supportive therapy. Even with shade from the tarps and another dose of Banamine...

8 day withdrawal for Banamine Transdermal, 7 days for Dex. We had one slaughtered years ago before the Banamine withdrawal for our own consumption. Big, fat cow, tasted great and dang, that kink in my back went away after every burger.;)

Thanks, Ken. Can you tell if she has an underbite? Cuz maybe that's part of the problem.;)😁

Not good. Found this girl all splayed out Thursday morning. Looking at my notes, I'm pretty sure it was a breeding injury because last I saw, the bulls were following her, but she wasn't in standing heat. Started with Banamine Transdermal and did eventually give her Dex but my vet said stick...

Talk to your vet to find out what is recommended specifically for your area. A lot of producers don't vaccinate for pinkeye because it's not really a problem. And they'll help you figure out if a mod live or killed vaccine would be better for your operation. Also, a lot of the vaccines I...

Geography is everything. Clipping most of the pastures here is not possible. Hilly, uneven, rocky terrain and attempting to clip is a sure way to destroy the blades on a brush hog, spark a fire, or both. That said, we do brush hog the flat areas in the barn pasture and where we keep the bale...

I believe Newport Labs is who my vet goes through to get an autogenous pinkeye vaccine. The one I currently use protects against Moxarella Bovis, Moxarella Bovoculi and Mycoplasma Bovis. This area of KS was hit hard with pinkeye a few years ago, before they added Mycoplasma Bovis. Most...

My vet does the annual "farm visit" when she's out to BANGS/pelvic measure my heifers, which basically consists of clarifying how many head/pairs. But we have a long-standing relationship with our vet, so she doesn't need to literally go through the herd. I get the original VFD and my vet...

Not intended for foot rot but mineral with CTC helps. If you live in an area that has a lot of ticks, your vet can write you a RX to help guard against anaplasmosis.

Asked about Lute on a steer a while back and Buck said no. https://www.cattletoday.com/threads/lutalyse-adverse-effect.124763/

Mycoplasma? I had it in a steer last year but only one leg was a little swollen and arthritic.

Wow. I once had a cow with lymphosarcoma that had bulging eyes but didn't look like that.

Well color me lucky! The large animal vet hospital we use is all of 20 minutes away. Went through a rough couple of years when one of the vets was killed by his own bull, then the owner wasn't doing as many farm calls (due to polio when he was a child). They hired a fabulous young vet and I...

You may also want to consider mineral with CTC as a preventative against anaplasmosis. Requires a VFD. I start using it a few weeks to a month prior to heavy tick season and continue until generally Oct/Nov.

I've mixed Permethrin with Prentox/PB0-8 at 7.4%, which is the equivalent of Fly Ban or Ultra Boss at 5%. Includes a gallon of corn oil and a little diesel. Ultra Sabre is 3 oz Lambda-cyhalothrin, 6oz PB0-8 and 1 gallon of corn oil and a little diesel.

I agree with hardware as a strong possibility. Coronary artery disease: think of little old ladies with their feet bulging out of their shoes. I've had my share of hardware and now every cow, retained heifer & bull gets a magnet as a prevention. That said, hardware can also be caused by a...

Had a bull go down yesterday after his BSE. Not sure if he was traumatized or spent. Grabbed one of the vets OB sleeves and after the 2nd puff, he popped right up. That said, he just turned 3 and already 2000 lbs so I had to hold it over his nostrils (probably not OSHA approved but whatever).

Probably was me. I love it so much; I gave one of one of my vets that also has cattle and he said he'll never go back. It's worth every penny!

Good luck with it! Generally, contracted tendons straighten out on their own, especially if you work with the calf. You can apply splints (even getting creative with pool noodles), but that's for an extreme case. I've only had a few and gave them a shot of Vitamin B Complex for energy.