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*Update* We have massaged it and tried to strip it and we have gotten a few squirts each time yesterday, but today it was blood tinged and less again - so it doesn't seem blind to me. I went ahead and put a little more Spectramast LC in that teat - pigs are still getting any extra milk. Got...

I have stopped all treatment other than massage and letting calf nurse, so now it's just wait and see. How much chance is there that her heifers would be the same?

Forgot to add... she had expelled the afterbirth before we ever put here in, and we do plan to leave the calf with her during the day and lock him up at night for morning milk - Just didn't work that way right off.

Sorry - I didn't really think all of those details were relevant... He was a big calf and the tendons on his back legs were a little contracted. He chilled very quickly because he hadn't yet nursed by 11:00 - even with help he wasn't strong enough. So we put her in the stanchion, got some...

Yes it does! Now I wish I had waited to treat her - it sounds like I caused myself more work and now I have the withdrawal time. I can see how the needle would have worked if it was mastitis. Thanks again.

Thanks for the reply. This took so long to post that I did get a few responses on another board and I think you are right that the quarter is blind, but I was going try it the next few milkings to be sure. I know the calf didn't suck - he is on my front porch ;-)

Hi, We brought our 3 heifers home Monday afternoon, and knew that the Guernsey/Angus was ready to pop any minute. She delivered a 95 lb bull calf at 6:00 this morning. We got the stanchion set how we needed it and got her in for her first milking. Front left quarter had very little Back left...