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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 251681" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>Cows with the abcesses...may not be a darned thing one can do for them. Had one cow last fall end up with a football sized hematoma below her hip due to having had to be lifted with the hip lifters after calving. Fluke thing. Ya'll might have drained it, but the vet happened to be out and we asked about her - he felt it, said leave it. If it's hard, leave it, soft, then lance it. When it finally did burst and drain on its own "nasty" doesn't even begin to describe it.</p><p></p><p>Six teats...some folks leave them on, some take them off. I like them OFF as calves, but to each his own. On a big dairy it's not exactly practical. I was shadowing my vet at a 1200-cow dairy recently and they don't remove (extra) teats. Never seen so many heifers in one place before, BTW. Whew. LOL.</p><p></p><p>I've seen a lot of things happen to cows and these pictures really aren't that bad. Have one cow here that actually WAS treated heavily for mastitis, but she had absolutely no response and I don't know what caused it. Haven't been able to get anything to show up on culture except a couple molds, which makes me wonder if she has a systemic fungal infection going on? gets more interesting every day. Saw boss tonight and he said she's still alive. To use the p.c. words, the teat on that quarter had to be amputated due to the fact the infection went from local (in the udder) to systemic and the cow was sicker than sick, not eating, bloody diahreaa, and dropping weight overnight. You want to discuss nasty, those pictures don't even come close. Last I saw her she was looking better since the quarter had been allowed to drain, but she's still at high risk for her next shot to be a bullet rather than a needle.</p><p></p><p>Dairies deal with a lot worse things than beef folks typically deal with. I wouldn't fault the management that much, really -- how many of you beef folks have even had to deal with quarters that abcess and cows that are so systemically sick from mastitis that you resort to even <em>thinking </em>about the knife? those beef cows don't even get to that point -- and from some of the posts here with folks asking about how to treat mastitis and cows with multiple "utters", trust me, it's not because you all manage things that much better, no offense intended.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 251681, member: 852"] Cows with the abcesses...may not be a darned thing one can do for them. Had one cow last fall end up with a football sized hematoma below her hip due to having had to be lifted with the hip lifters after calving. Fluke thing. Ya'll might have drained it, but the vet happened to be out and we asked about her - he felt it, said leave it. If it's hard, leave it, soft, then lance it. When it finally did burst and drain on its own "nasty" doesn't even begin to describe it. Six teats...some folks leave them on, some take them off. I like them OFF as calves, but to each his own. On a big dairy it's not exactly practical. I was shadowing my vet at a 1200-cow dairy recently and they don't remove (extra) teats. Never seen so many heifers in one place before, BTW. Whew. LOL. I've seen a lot of things happen to cows and these pictures really aren't that bad. Have one cow here that actually WAS treated heavily for mastitis, but she had absolutely no response and I don't know what caused it. Haven't been able to get anything to show up on culture except a couple molds, which makes me wonder if she has a systemic fungal infection going on? gets more interesting every day. Saw boss tonight and he said she's still alive. To use the p.c. words, the teat on that quarter had to be amputated due to the fact the infection went from local (in the udder) to systemic and the cow was sicker than sick, not eating, bloody diahreaa, and dropping weight overnight. You want to discuss nasty, those pictures don't even come close. Last I saw her she was looking better since the quarter had been allowed to drain, but she's still at high risk for her next shot to be a bullet rather than a needle. Dairies deal with a lot worse things than beef folks typically deal with. I wouldn't fault the management that much, really -- how many of you beef folks have even had to deal with quarters that abcess and cows that are so systemically sick from mastitis that you resort to even [i]thinking [/i]about the knife? those beef cows don't even get to that point -- and from some of the posts here with folks asking about how to treat mastitis and cows with multiple "utters", trust me, it's not because you all manage things that much better, no offense intended. [/QUOTE]
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