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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 1195949" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>had one years ago - a baby calf - develop cystitis, she was on and off antibiotics for about a month between navel ill and cystitis and we never fixed it. Because of the symptoms I'd caught a urine sample for analysis, and later (as a yearling, I think) the vet examined her and decided her kidneys were damaged.</p><p>She always looked in great health but the pain would come and go and she had a distinctive way of walking at those times - legs wide and tail out. Shortly before she died she was examined by a vet when I wasn't present and, not knowing her history, the vet diagnosed pinched nerve due to heavy in-calf.</p><p>"Abcesses in the abdomen" is how it was described to me over the phone when she was again examined by a vet, actually dying at the time, around 22 months old. I believed the navel ill was the root cause, but who knows? It can be pretty hard to really identify what's going on, and I'm not surprised that a vet called to a lame heifer not knowing her history failed to identify it as pain from recurrent cystitis.</p><p>How she left my hands and thus encountered vets who didn't know her is another story, that involves a stock truck driver who was an incompetent stock handler.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 1195949, member: 9267"] had one years ago - a baby calf - develop cystitis, she was on and off antibiotics for about a month between navel ill and cystitis and we never fixed it. Because of the symptoms I'd caught a urine sample for analysis, and later (as a yearling, I think) the vet examined her and decided her kidneys were damaged. She always looked in great health but the pain would come and go and she had a distinctive way of walking at those times - legs wide and tail out. Shortly before she died she was examined by a vet when I wasn't present and, not knowing her history, the vet diagnosed pinched nerve due to heavy in-calf. "Abcesses in the abdomen" is how it was described to me over the phone when she was again examined by a vet, actually dying at the time, around 22 months old. I believed the navel ill was the root cause, but who knows? It can be pretty hard to really identify what's going on, and I'm not surprised that a vet called to a lame heifer not knowing her history failed to identify it as pain from recurrent cystitis. How she left my hands and thus encountered vets who didn't know her is another story, that involves a stock truck driver who was an incompetent stock handler. [/QUOTE]
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