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B L V - Our worst nightmare!
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<blockquote data-quote="Chi-man" data-source="post: 1113469" data-attributes="member: 8491"><p>I wanted everyone to be aware of BLV. If you don't know much about, do a little research. Over the past 20 + years, we would lose a cow here and there. We always thought, "If you have them, you will lose one sometimes." Well, how wrong we were. We should have tested for various diseases I guess. This winter, we lost three cows. Two of those had weird symptoms. The most obvious was that they would be unable to stand on their back legs. But, they would still be strong enough to get up on their front legs and crawl all over. They would also have lots of air under the skin especially along the spine. It would feel like bubble wrap when you rubbed their back. Vet was stumped at first, but then decided to test for BLV. It was positive. He suggested we test the herd. We tested 62 to start. Out of those 62, only 13 came back negative. We are not going to test anymore. We are going to liquidate the entire herd. BLV can be spread by blood. If you don't change needles each time, and you have cattle with it, you can contaminate the others. Vet says that there may be a genetic component as well. I think that the genetic aspect is how we got it to begin with. Again, if you don't know about it, educate yourself. I don't want this to happen to anyone else. If you catch it early, you can eliminate the ones that test positive and prevent the spread of the virus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chi-man, post: 1113469, member: 8491"] I wanted everyone to be aware of BLV. If you don't know much about, do a little research. Over the past 20 + years, we would lose a cow here and there. We always thought, "If you have them, you will lose one sometimes." Well, how wrong we were. We should have tested for various diseases I guess. This winter, we lost three cows. Two of those had weird symptoms. The most obvious was that they would be unable to stand on their back legs. But, they would still be strong enough to get up on their front legs and crawl all over. They would also have lots of air under the skin especially along the spine. It would feel like bubble wrap when you rubbed their back. Vet was stumped at first, but then decided to test for BLV. It was positive. He suggested we test the herd. We tested 62 to start. Out of those 62, only 13 came back negative. We are not going to test anymore. We are going to liquidate the entire herd. BLV can be spread by blood. If you don't change needles each time, and you have cattle with it, you can contaminate the others. Vet says that there may be a genetic component as well. I think that the genetic aspect is how we got it to begin with. Again, if you don't know about it, educate yourself. I don't want this to happen to anyone else. If you catch it early, you can eliminate the ones that test positive and prevent the spread of the virus. [/QUOTE]
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