Toby L.
Well-known member
I just spent the last 45 minutes writing this up and when I reviewed it, something wasn't right, so I hit the back button and it said the webpage has expired and I lost everything. I'm not going to do it all over again, so here are the details.
9 month old bull calf rubbing hair off of his eyes.
I'm feeding him 5 pounds of ground corn and free choice hay daily, no minerals for about 3 weeks, but that will change tomorrow when I get more feed mixed up.
No vaccines, no wormer. I used pour on with the calf that's in the same pen and she's fine.
The other cow's are itching and scratching more, I contributed that to warmer weather.
My wife's friend gave us a horse that has rain rot, and it's been running with the cows for a couple months now, but I don't think that's what's wrong with this one because it hasn't had contact with the bull calf, and I'm not sure if rain rot is transferable to cows.
I included a picture of the hanging feed container that I use, I think his head is getting to big and is rubbing his eye's on it.
I don't want to spend a $100 to have a vet come out to tell me to use a different feed container and rub bag balm on his eye's. I was thinking today that if it wasn't for this website, I would have to go ask my neighbors that have had cows for many years. Then I would have to call a vet, I just think that it's something so simple that I'm overlooking it.
I just get so mad because I spent so much time with that post that I wrote up earlier, getting all the fact's strait, and spell checking everything, and making sure my grammar was correct, and bringing up some good thoughts about some thread's of the past, and blaa, blaa, blaa, blaa.
9 month old bull calf rubbing hair off of his eyes.
I'm feeding him 5 pounds of ground corn and free choice hay daily, no minerals for about 3 weeks, but that will change tomorrow when I get more feed mixed up.
No vaccines, no wormer. I used pour on with the calf that's in the same pen and she's fine.
The other cow's are itching and scratching more, I contributed that to warmer weather.
My wife's friend gave us a horse that has rain rot, and it's been running with the cows for a couple months now, but I don't think that's what's wrong with this one because it hasn't had contact with the bull calf, and I'm not sure if rain rot is transferable to cows.
I included a picture of the hanging feed container that I use, I think his head is getting to big and is rubbing his eye's on it.
I don't want to spend a $100 to have a vet come out to tell me to use a different feed container and rub bag balm on his eye's. I was thinking today that if it wasn't for this website, I would have to go ask my neighbors that have had cows for many years. Then I would have to call a vet, I just think that it's something so simple that I'm overlooking it.
I just get so mad because I spent so much time with that post that I wrote up earlier, getting all the fact's strait, and spell checking everything, and making sure my grammar was correct, and bringing up some good thoughts about some thread's of the past, and blaa, blaa, blaa, blaa.