I have dealt with this EXACT situation, I took in a cow that had cancer eye and was pregnant. (o.k. guys, so we are in the cattle business but yes I am a women and I do try and rescue cows when I can!)
Dun is right, it can be a negative situation, I don't think she would live until she calved . I took the cow that I had to the state vet school and we kept her there trying to get her to the point of when we could deliver the calf by C-section and then put the cow down. I ended up loosing both, the calf was born alive but was premature and dispite their best efforts she died.
Anyway, this is what I would do, bring her to someone that can do surgery on the eye!!! A State vet school etc. Like I said it is not expensive and she might do well and at least you can get her to when you can deliver the baby. I would not ship her off or put her down now when surgery is a viable option. Please consider this, I have been through this.....
kat
kat
> Two choices, neither of which is
> very good. Let the eye go, when
> she calves remove the calf and hip
> the cow. By then you won;t get
> squat for her because of the eye.
> I would also be leery of keeping
> offspring from an animals that got
> eye cancer that young. The other
> choice is to suck it up and ship
> her now. Ugly choices, but what
> else is there to do?
> dun
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