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<blockquote data-quote="Rustler9" data-source="post: 175744" data-attributes="member: 440"><p>It definitely sounds like lumpy jaw-this happened to a good, five year old cow that I have. From what I've read-lumpy jaw (this is what it's really called-it also has a scientific name but I don't recall what it is) usually occurs in young stock, usually starts before they are two years old but takes time to start forming. It's usually caused by the animal eating roughage that has thorns, sticks etc. that puncture the gum. An abcess begins to form and it can grow into the jaw bone. It can be cured-iodine is the beginning of treatment. We administered this in the feed for two weeks, all of this was after the vet cut into the lump and sent a sample of tissue off for diagnosis. </p><p></p><p>He told me at first that I had a 50/50 chance of saving the cow-of course I wanted to if possible as she is a registered animal with some stong genetics that I want in my herd, so far she's given me three heifers out of three calves. We then started three weeks of shots-I don't remember the name of the medication-I have a bottle of this at home and will try to remmeber to look at the name of it and let you know. I gave 30 cc's each day and by the time the meds were over the knot was almost completely gone. If you saw the cow today you would never know that she had ever had a knot the size of a baseball on her jaw. When this first started I thought she had been snake bitten. This all began back in September when it was still warm here and snakes were still crawling. We have alot of rattlers and copperheads here in our area. The cow had a fairly young calf on her and had lost some weight, I gave her an extra worming thinking that this would help and that the jaw would go down as other snake bites do. After the jaw didn't go down but increased in size in a month's time I had the vet come out. By the time the vet checked her it had gotten to where she could hardly chew. I pulled the calf off early as it was dragging her down more.</p><p></p><p>This cow has a good set of triple twist horns and has never been a pet so I had a hell of a time getting the shots in her every day but I was determined to to. I started out roping her each day to get the shots in her but finally started getting her corned in the barn with a corral panel and getting it done taht way. From what I've read this can reoccur over time but if it does I guess I'll try the treatment again. If your bull is worth it to you, you may want to do this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rustler9, post: 175744, member: 440"] It definitely sounds like lumpy jaw-this happened to a good, five year old cow that I have. From what I've read-lumpy jaw (this is what it's really called-it also has a scientific name but I don't recall what it is) usually occurs in young stock, usually starts before they are two years old but takes time to start forming. It's usually caused by the animal eating roughage that has thorns, sticks etc. that puncture the gum. An abcess begins to form and it can grow into the jaw bone. It can be cured-iodine is the beginning of treatment. We administered this in the feed for two weeks, all of this was after the vet cut into the lump and sent a sample of tissue off for diagnosis. He told me at first that I had a 50/50 chance of saving the cow-of course I wanted to if possible as she is a registered animal with some stong genetics that I want in my herd, so far she's given me three heifers out of three calves. We then started three weeks of shots-I don't remember the name of the medication-I have a bottle of this at home and will try to remmeber to look at the name of it and let you know. I gave 30 cc's each day and by the time the meds were over the knot was almost completely gone. If you saw the cow today you would never know that she had ever had a knot the size of a baseball on her jaw. When this first started I thought she had been snake bitten. This all began back in September when it was still warm here and snakes were still crawling. We have alot of rattlers and copperheads here in our area. The cow had a fairly young calf on her and had lost some weight, I gave her an extra worming thinking that this would help and that the jaw would go down as other snake bites do. After the jaw didn't go down but increased in size in a month's time I had the vet come out. By the time the vet checked her it had gotten to where she could hardly chew. I pulled the calf off early as it was dragging her down more. This cow has a good set of triple twist horns and has never been a pet so I had a hell of a time getting the shots in her every day but I was determined to to. I started out roping her each day to get the shots in her but finally started getting her corned in the barn with a corral panel and getting it done taht way. From what I've read this can reoccur over time but if it does I guess I'll try the treatment again. If your bull is worth it to you, you may want to do this. [/QUOTE]
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