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her calf was weaned last fall, and until a few months ago, we did not have any problems. Breanna is definitely making bag, but being an older cow, she does not show much. I think last year, she made bag, and calved a few days later. No discharge, just suppose I will wait it out...

Opinions. Breanna the cow has not really bagged up or ran snot this spring. My calving window closes in two weeks. I have assumed Breanna did not settle. A while back, her last year's calf was trying to suck so we put a nose ring on the calf, problem solved. Now it is looking like Breanna is...

Do you think bitter orange could keep an older calf from trying to suck? Mom is doing a pretty good job keeping her off, but I was thinking of something to help... Mom won't calve until April, and I really don't want to separate them again unless I have too. I will probably separate them when...

I have a cow that has what looks like an abscess on the bottom of her brisket, almost between her front legs. It is about the size of a cantaloupe. Will it eventually go away on its own or will the vet need to lance it?

I have a cow that should be bred, she has not cycled in months and none of the cows have been bulling her. Except two 6 mo old steer calves are hovering around her and trying to ride her. The only other thing is the neighbors turned out their herd to the adjoining pasture, it is possible some of...

On a side note, I talked to the owner of the place that makes them, and found that while they definitely benefit from the protein and stuff in the tubs, in theory, you could add a bunch of powered garlic to their feed and it will help.

They are 14% all natural protein tubs with minerals too. I keep protein tubs out all year around, and this is the first year we used the ones with garlic. But the flies have been worse than I can remember and I needed to do something to ease them on the cows. We poured them, fly tags, and also...

I rarely if ever say WOW!, this is a great product, but I will now. The flies have almost disappeared since we started using this. They say the garlic on the lips repels flies, and in their system makes them not appealing to flies. Can't use with milking dairy because it will make the milk taste...

The flies are the worse I can remember. We put in fly tags, sponged them with permectrin, and a fly kover cover mineral feeder. We also put out some rabon blocks. This is a new pasture, and the last person has a creep feeder that leaked, and the spot left old grain that basically fermented. Is...

I have a fly killer kover that I have used several years and the pad under the cover is about worn out. I really like it and it works well. Do you think I could glue a new pad on it or just need to buy a new one?

We have had an extraordinarily wet spring and the pasture we were going to move the cows to has a lot of fescue grass that has gone to seed. When it dries out, we will mow the seed heads off before we turn them out. My first question is there a mineral can we feed them to help fight the fescue...

she still gets a bottle at night, is that ok? she is on diluted milk replacer, only about half a cup of powder in the bottle.

I have a 4 month old bottle calf, doing great until I brought home an almost empty lick tub. She got terrible diarrhea, but is still up and active, eating hay. Should I do anything for her or just let it pass? And we took the tub away, hindsight and all...

How is she doing now?

I am wondering if she was pulled. I got her when she was a week old, so I don't know if she had a hard delivery. The owner said mom had mastitis and he was bottle feeding her. She is a good looking thing, growing well. She is about 7 weeks now. She still has a stiff gait but I have lifted and...