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Well heck...little man out there is nursing and eating grass like nothing was ever wrong with him. Now I KNOW it wasn't my supportive therapy that got him interested in food overnight. Had to have been the Dex. That Cortisone sure is a wonder drug albeit a scary one. He's finished his round of...

He scours when he runs a high fever before I run a round of antibiotics through him. Once the antibiotics are in him and the fever lowers, the scours stop. I always give probiotics when I run a course of antibiotics through them, so that's good, and I've doubled his dose per the Vet's...

So, the snake bite was about 2 months ago...maybe 6 weeks. I'm thinking that his body has processed the toxins, but what is left is a compromised immune system? I never did see him pee blood, but I hadn't seen him pee in forever until tonight, and tonight it looked normal. Not even neon yellow...

Gosh, yeh, I thought I did mention that I thought the abscess was a result of a snake bite mostly because it started as a real rubbery/leathery/fluidy kind of look under his jaw. LIKE bottle jaw, but not. We had another cow get bit, and a couple of dogs around here, and they had that same soft...

Really, just drugs and time. Oh, and one vet call. I can't remember if he charged me for the fecal or not. I had most of the drugs on hand anyway, and they were going out of date, so putting them into him as opposed to tossing them out was a better deal in my mind. I'm at the limit of $$ I'll...

Its been a very long time since I’ve been on these boards, but I’ve now got a problem I could use a 2nd or 3rd opinion on. Long story short, I’ve had a very powerful pneumonia virus out here that hits the calves at a week or so of age. First two calves of the year were fine and are now 9 and...

I have to say, with the TPR fees if you want your EPD's published, one time yearly registration fee of $100 plus each calf's registration fee, now DNA testing on future herd sires in order to even register calves, the business model for a small registered herd just isn't panning out. I know who...

Anyone heard of this? I have to wonder with the new Trich testing and now this, how it will affect bottom line on bull sales for us Herf folks.....Seriously..... From Hereford e-News: The AHA will require all Hereford sires born after Jan. 1, 2011, to be DNA genotyped at the official AHA DNA...

How funny...I haven't been on the boards in ages, and what to I find when I stop in for a bit? THE topic I needed and recent too! 'Fraid the same situation is going on over here, only it was the next door neighbor's bull who came visiting this morning as opposed to Miss Thang going over there...

Thanks for all the replies ya'll. She seems to be doing really well. We upped her to 3 bottles a day, and that seems to fit her better than just two did. She still wants more, but isn't as adament about it for as long after her bottle is finished as she was. Rest assured fresh, clean...

Thanks KNERSIE, I did give her a bottle of water at noon just to make sure she stays hydrated and do have starter out there for her as well. I've been picking up a handfull of feed and putting some of it in her mouth after her bottle hoping she'll get the idea that it goes down just as good as...

We had a heifer calve last Saturday and it just so happens that she hates her baby. We had hopes that mama just needed some isolation time to bond with the calf, but 4 days later, no luck. We had been running her into the chute for the calf to nurse twice daily, but it didn't seem that mama was...

....I'm having flashbacks myself........sure had a lotta fun. Nowadays its just kinda cool to take the dogs and sit with a beer there on the back porch, but without the dirt lot or the Presbyterian church there anymore, its just not the same. :cry2: **sigh** Just have to re-live it through...

They're evil.......caught one trying to nurse a cow that's due next week.....Just gotta call them El Diablo and Lucifer.......of course, figuring out which one is who is a whole 'nother story.....

Thanks Ya'll! I'm waaaay too excited about this one! From all the horror stories I've read about on twins, I was expecting the worst when it finally did happen. I'm just thanking my lucky stars, the angels who were watching over, and chalking it up to a Christmas miracle. I'm sure that when it...