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IF you intend to keep this cow to the bitter end, maybe you should treat her like a geriatric zoo animal rather than a working mama cow. Put her in a ~2 acre pen behind the house, keep a roll bale out there all the time, and feed her 3 to 5 lbs of mixed ration daily like a horse. She will last...

Good point. Maybe I am overreacting; but I have heard enough horror stories about contaminated vaccines or inert vaccines that I buy only what I need and any left over gets tossed in the garbage can.

We have used both the purple spray AND the yellow spray with excellent results....though we jumped on it immediately at the first case of pinkeye. Pouring bleach into any animal's eyes is boarderline cruelty to animals. A vet would have to recommend that to me before I ever did it.

Snake bite???

Rolled corn is better than whole corn; but is it 100% better? THAT I really doubt. Rolling is going to increase the digestibility; but I would be shocked if it improves it more than 30%.

Maybe I am too countrified; but we always just loaded up five gallon buckets and threw the whole cottonseed in the troughs unmixed and unmilled and let the cattle mix it with the rest of their diet in their stomach. They will eat whole cottonseed like candy.

This is just wild speculation; but it sounds like something viral...like BVD or as has already been suggested Clostridial (blackleg). No the calves are NOT too young for a 7-way clostridia vaccination..... http://www.jefferslivestock.com/ssc/pro ... G1NDP50GQ7 I think that there are SOME BVD...

In the hog business, we used to use 50:50 clorox:water and a scrub brush on pigs with staph infections. It is about 90% effective if you jumped on them early though we always shot with Penn G too and put the staph pigs together if there were more than one. You get 10 or 20 of them to treat and...

I agree, but he needs to know what to shoot (so he can have a bottle of it onhand) before he runs her up in the chute. If I had to make a completely blind guess, I would say Naxcel. Though if it is not hoof rot related, PennG or LA 200 might be better.

I think most of them are less than 40 pounds. We had one last year that a poacher killed and threw over the fence that was so big I really had doubts as to whether I was looking at a coyote or a wolf (and we are not supposed to have wolves) or some kind of dog/wolf or dog/coyote hybrid. I must...

A small animal clinic can be a cash cow when it has the clientele. Some pretty young girl takes the appoinments, starts the computer file, and sends the clients into room 1, room 2, or room 3. A vet tech comes in, asks the standard questions, inputs that into the computer, takes the pet in for...

Yes, and they look awfully fineboned too. Both probably have some effect on those feet. I can't imagine them lasting five years.

In any group of cattle there will eventually be born "mean" cattle that want to hurt people and "Spooky" cattle that get scared out of their wits at any amount of streess. It probably pays dividends to identify those calves early and get them outta there. All that said, cattle do LEARN how...

I think you need a new vet. IF you are going to hit EVERY steer on your farm with penicillin; be sure to have epinephrine on hand just in case one goes into shock from the Penn. You will probably never lose one; but it is an inexpensive insurance policy. You do not want to mix anything with...

Bale it and get it tested. IF it tests fine, somebody's cows or horses will need it this winter. IF it comes back at excessive levels of nitrates; builders, developers, strip miners, gardeners, and homeowners are still going to need mulch hay (and they will pay top $$$) and it is a lot better...

We baled it for years and only had it tested once. I don't know how it has been in Georgia or Tennessee; BUT I would get it tested THIS year. IF you were every going to have a bad batch, as sparce as rain as been this year; this would be the one. Brokefarmer: If you can bale it grab it. IF...

I attended a seminar on this at the Alabama Deer and Turkey Hunter's Expoe this summer. According to the expert guy..... they run over several thousand acres, which means some days they will NOT be in your part of their vast range. His recommendation was to ride the roads and use coyote calls...

Exactly, when I worked for the hog company we used 1 cc of PennG on a ~five lb pig, 2 ccs in the nursery, 6 ccs on a 100 lb grower hog, 12 ccs on a 180 lb top hog or first party ~350 lb sow, and 20 ccs on a mature sow or boar. 10 injected intramuscularly in the neck and 10 on the other side.

I hate too quit on one; BUT if she is in poorer condition than the rest of the herd in JANUARY and has been lame for month"S"!!, you have talked too vets, you have injected her with selenium, and don't really have another course of action that may be worthwhile to try....this sounds like a text...

He is a nicer person than me if all they had was a "discussion". I never had any children, but I am afraid if they killed a few cows (and cost me the milk income) out of stupidity the "discussion" would come closer to actual "assault and battery".