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Sidney is right! Hot water ( a little hotter than you think you can stand ) will make it stop for a good while. I've even used a hair dryer for some out of the way spots thats hard to get under a faucet. :roll: My wife has to go to the doctor to get a shot and some meds to dry it up...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I found this from a year ago. ;-) Here are 2 home remedies for scours posted here a while back. I think Cattle Annie posted the first one, and Ollie the 2nd. Just throwing them out there for additional...

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.22 Mag. is the best in my view, it's always worked for me. Between the eyes or on a really large animal in the bur of the ear. ;-)

Your calf's foot sure did inprove quickly, glad for you. I had a really good heifer a few years ago who's foot looked something like yours. Ended up taking her to the vet, he thought it was caused by a puncture wound that had gotten infected. Like Dun was talking about, when he lanced it the...

I think that a few people are getting confused about the different meanings of "stray dogs" & "neighbor". A neighbor to me is someone I know, can talk to, reason with and I know their animals whether they're dogs, horses or cattle. Someone who I help out at times and that helps me at other...

When I sell a cow or pair at the barn it could be for any reason. A note to meet, pay for hay, or just the normal yearly culling. The only thing I'll make a comment about is how is one to tell every possible buyer about what's wrong with their cattle? Come on, some are good cows but most are...

I've got to go with Stocky on this one. It could be the losing teeth thing, I have seen that, but whatever it is she won't gain much weight with a 5 month old calf on her. Sell the calf, wait for the little cow to fatten up and then hopefully sell her as being bred. ;-)

Ship her & the calf unless you're enjoying the current status quo. By the time a calf is a week old he should be strong/persistent enough to wear the cow down into allowing it to nurse. I don't fool with something like this for more than 3-4 days, I take them to the first sale barn that's...

Bags most likely tender. Put her in a chute and let the calf nurse or milk her down to get the pressure off. Sometimes the teats have a little pluggage and it's hard for the calf get the milk to come. Once the calf gets a little stronger and the heifer's bag isn't so strutted up it should...

One of my heifers had her first calf a week ago sometime during the night. Found it the next morning, it had been licked dry and she was right there with it but it didn't appear that it had sucked. I got the calf up but the heifer didn't want any part of the corral ( yes, she is a tiger...

Loose mineral & loose salt, free choice. ;-)

Sorry to hear of your problems. Some years it seems so easy, some years it so tough. But as my brother says," If you don't want to lose any livestock the best way is not to have any because if you've got some you're going to lose some". I hope the rest of your year is better. ;-)

How many cows in the pen? Could have been bad luck, stepped on or the Mother could have lain on it. Sorry about your bad luck, ;-)

Yes I've snuck them few the car wash a few times. Once the owner walked over, said he didn't mind as long as the "material" stayed in the sloped area around the drain. He just didn't want it where it would be hard for him to wash down. Most of the time through the owners don't want you to...

I've had one set of twins in the last 7 years or so. My brother has had one set in the same time frame. Last year he had a old cow take a heifer's first calf away from her. They had both calved at the same time right next to each other. The older cow took both calves, refused to let the...

How old do you think she is? Sometimes a heifer will calve about the same time they're losing their baby teeth ( ~ 2 yrs? ). The combined stress of the calf growing/using more of her resources and her not being able to process the food she's eating properly makes it hard for her to put any...

Like a lot of the others we haul them off to "dead cow park", the back 40 of a pine plantion where we join some paper company land. The yotes & buzzards get most of it, the fire ants get the rest. It doesn't take long! ;-)

About 4 months, ended up a little smaller than the 6 - 7 month old calves that were penned with it. ;-)