I know weekends aren't normally all that great (28 hours in 2 days is very tiresome) but this weekend was terrible for sick cows anyway.
We had a cow start to bloat on Saturday and today she died. Plus, we had 2 that needed to be treated for mastitis. One of those got her foot stuck between some bars and may have broken it. (She's eating but maybe she also had nerve damage and can't feel it.) Another cow - one of my favourites of course :roll: - calved Friday and hasn't gotten up since Saturday. She's breathing short, hard breaths, is shifting often and has little circulation. We don't think she's going to pull through. Oh, also, we have 3 or 4 that probably have DA's. The vet should be coming out tomorrow.
I can't say I've had a worse weekend in a while.
We had a cow start to bloat on Saturday and today she died. Plus, we had 2 that needed to be treated for mastitis. One of those got her foot stuck between some bars and may have broken it. (She's eating but maybe she also had nerve damage and can't feel it.) Another cow - one of my favourites of course :roll: - calved Friday and hasn't gotten up since Saturday. She's breathing short, hard breaths, is shifting often and has little circulation. We don't think she's going to pull through. Oh, also, we have 3 or 4 that probably have DA's. The vet should be coming out tomorrow.
I can't say I've had a worse weekend in a while.