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We lost downer cow #4 last night. She had been down for 11 days and we were considering shooting her anyhow. The good news is that we have not had any new downers. A vet, the government tester guy (who is coming early next week to take a brain sample and thus qualify us for the government...

The cows are around 10 years. We don't know precisely. With all the ear tags we have lost (a discussion for another day), my Mom lost track. The downer cow that went into labour (#3), and her dead calf was pulled , died on Sunday. We have a call in for a vet to come and take a sample of the...

I remember this calf when only a day or two old. It was off to the side from the others and hung its head down while standing ....... I always remember it standing, until I found it flat out, half dead. As fate would have it, it went down on my day off and others never patrolled the barn very...

We've got two downer cows in the barn getting room service and there is no such thing as Depends for cows! We are two-thirds through calving in our 150-cow herd and we've had a problem with four downers so far: Downer cows in order: 1. Lost her large calf after we pulled it. We left her...

The calf died two nights ago. Sorry for not getting to this forum sooner. There was some good news at the time, however. Another downer calf I discovered about the same time recovered from some bad scours. I tubed that one with 5 Liters of electrolyte in 30 hours and presto, up and around...

Thank you for the information. The calf had selenium and Vitamin A, D, & E within a day or two of birth and we give our whole herd selenium with their salt and mineral. We (family) learned that one the hard way 30 years ago when we first got into the business. Thank you for reminding me of the...

Hi, I am new to this forum. I have a week old calf flat on its side with a low body temperature, no scours, and she has her head tilted back. She will also flail with her legs a little bit when disturbed. I suspect a lung infection as her breathing sounds a little rough once in awhile...