Another dead cow question

[TheBullLady]

What is this.. an epidemic? :roll:

I have 28 head at a lease place just up the road from the house. Thursday evening the woman that lives in the house called to say one of the cows had been down by the tank "laying around" all day. We went up there, and found her upright, but with a bloody discharge. She got up, went to the tank and had some water, walked around a little, came back and laid down. She acted like she was trying to calf.. and after seeing the bloody discharge, I suspected she was aborting a calf. The next morning she was dead.

I feel horrible that I didn't check her closer.. after looking at her after she died, it seems she was bleeding from the rectum. My vet is out of town until after the holidays, so couldn't post her. Besides the mis-diagnosis, does anyone have any idea what could have happened? She was a 5 year old cow, probably 3 months bred.

 

[Caustic Burno]

What is this.. an epidemic? :roll:

I have 28 head at a lease place just up the road from the house. Thursday evening the woman that lives in the house called to say one of the cows had been down by the tank "laying around" all day. We went up there, and found her upright, but with a bloody discharge. She got up, went to the tank and had some water, walked around a little, came back and laid down. She acted like she was trying to calf.. and after seeing the bloody discharge, I suspected she was aborting a calf. The next morning she was dead.

I feel horrible that I didn't check her closer.. after looking at her after she died, it seems she was bleeding from the rectum. My vet is out of town until after the holidays, so couldn't post her. Besides the mis-diagnosis, does anyone have any idea what could have happened? She was a 5 year old cow, probably 3 months bred.

I have had the bull mount before and miss puncturing an intestine leading to infection and death.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

I believe at 3 months, she would obsorb the pregnancy - not abort it. She may have had internal bleeding for unknown number of reasons.

 

[TXBobcat]

Thursday evening the woman that lives in the house called to say one of the cows had been down by the tank "laying around" all day.

Might be a chance that the cow got stuck in the mud around the tank and was injured somehow. With the tanks around here really low, seems this is more of a problem than normal.

Being a young cow, I would think there is less of a chance of this happening, but you never know.

 

[SPRINGER FARMS MURRAY GRE]

Maybe hardware disease? Peice of wire or something :?:

 

[D.R. Cattle]

Had the exact same thing happen twice on hard calvers. One of them never had the calf, but she hemmorhaged and died. The other had the calf stillborn and hemorrhaged the next day and keeled. Beleive they were breach in both cases. Both had buckets of blood coming out the back side. Well there's one way to cull calving problems. Danged expensive though.

 

[Texan]

I feel horrible that I didn't check her closer..

We just can't live with them all of the time. And we can't always make the right decisions every time. And there's not always a way to save every one. Even when we do everything just perfect.

TBL, you're a really good cattleman, so you already know everything I just told you. It's time to quit beating yourself up over this one. ;-)