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We have a 4-year-old Jersey cow who is not well..... she had a temperature of 105.3 this afternoon (now it has dropped to 102), she has mastitis and we are wondering if she is going to calve/abort. We bought her last fall and have been milking her since. She calved May 30 last year. About 5...

Last night I was about ready to shoot the calf just to get him out of his misery. I didn't have much hopes of him living through the night. However, he is still alive, his breathing has eased somewhat, his temperature is now 102.2, and he has been spending half his time sitting up with his...

He has been going downhill in the past few hours, getting weaker, refusing his bottle, and temperature up to 103.1. The vet just gave him some penicillin, Re-Covr, and Dexamethasone. The steroids seem to have perked him up a little, but the vet says that the calf has a good chance of not...

He's still alive, and doesn't seem better or worse. Yesterday his temperature was 102.2, and today it is 102.6. The vet said that he could give him Re-Covr and Dexamethasone, but I am not sure if these drugs would actually help the root cause or would just alleviate some of the symptoms and...

The vet told me to give him some oxytetracycline, which I did. We'll see if he's still alive in the morning.

This morning a neighbor gave us a week-old Devon bull calf. The neighbor said that the mother cow had rejected it at birth and he had been putting her in the headgate twice a day to let the calf nurse. As the calf is going blind (he said its eyes were fine at birth) and he doesn't have the...