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Is a lung abscess fatal? This cow is a butterball she's so fat. Yesterday, I moved them across the road to another pasture and when they saw me opening the gate, they came running from about 100 yards away, and she was the lead cow. I looked at her about an hour ago and her nose looked fine, but...

What can cause a bloody nose/bloody mucus? Four days ago, I noticed one of my cows had fresh blood visible in both of her nostrils. I assumed she had been fighting and thought nothing of it. Yesterday her nose was clean as a whistle. Today, she has bloody mucus in both nostrils, but her...

I didn't phrase my question as well as I should. Is it OK to deworm while a calf is still nursing or best to wait until weaning?

I have about 30 calves born in December and January that have not slicked up (still looks like they have their winter coats), so I'm assuming they're wormy. However, a couple of old timers that hang around the sale barn told me I shouldn't deworm a nursing calf. These calves are 5 months or so...

I have a three-year-old Charolais cow that's developed some sort of ever-changing cyst in her eye, right where the tear duct would be on a person. It will start out about the size of a BB, grow larger, erupt and expel green pus, shrink and start the cycle all over again. I've given her...

Quick Update: Was finally able to get the calf up late yesterday. Tolled the cows again and cut the mother cow out and sent her up the catch lane into the pens. LIke before, the calf had not come up, but when mama started calling, it came up to the barn. Through opening and closing different...

When making my rounds this morning, I noticed a sick calf lying on its side with foam coming out of its nostrils. It's about five weeks old. By the time I went to the barn and got my medicine ready, the calf was up and nursing when I got back. I'm assuming it's pneumonia. However, this morning I...