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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 608842" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>one year we were hit pretty bad with scours, we had about 12 calves, 6 with scours, boy were we ever busy bottle feeding.</p><p></p><p>one of the heifers who was nearly dead made a full recovery, and we kept her, gave us many calves, the othersteers all made good recoveries and weaned in the 600's.</p><p></p><p>another experience which wasn't all good was a cow that had fallen on ice and broken her pelvis, we sledded her up by the house and took good care of her, on my dad's birthday she calved about a 4-6 weeks premature, and she was in rough shape and had to be put down, but the calf was bottle raised and was quite a pet.</p><p></p><p>the last case was a dehorning job done in feb, and the vet told us we didn't need to bandage the wound, well, summer time came along and flies got into it... most disgusting job I've had to do yet.. I rode my motorcycle to the farm (3 1/2 hours each way) every weekend from april to august for that cow, as i was the only person who could get within 100 feet of her, let alone work on her, finally, after shaving the entire area, dousing it in alcohol, iodine, and any other antiseptic i could get my hands on, and covering everything with a beeswax/pine sap/turpentine mix and gauze, I succeeded in getting rid of the flies and the infection, once that was done she healed up a 3" round wound on each side of her head in about a month, and by winter time you could never have told she had horns at one time.. That was Lizzy</p><p></p><p>Before the dehorning</p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/Rx7man/Moo/xmastime2005006-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>All patched up</p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/Rx7man/Moo/Lillooetjn22006028.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The calf she raised that year</p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/Rx7man/Moo/Lillooetjn22006013.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 608842, member: 9096"] one year we were hit pretty bad with scours, we had about 12 calves, 6 with scours, boy were we ever busy bottle feeding. one of the heifers who was nearly dead made a full recovery, and we kept her, gave us many calves, the othersteers all made good recoveries and weaned in the 600's. another experience which wasn't all good was a cow that had fallen on ice and broken her pelvis, we sledded her up by the house and took good care of her, on my dad's birthday she calved about a 4-6 weeks premature, and she was in rough shape and had to be put down, but the calf was bottle raised and was quite a pet. the last case was a dehorning job done in feb, and the vet told us we didn't need to bandage the wound, well, summer time came along and flies got into it... most disgusting job I've had to do yet.. I rode my motorcycle to the farm (3 1/2 hours each way) every weekend from april to august for that cow, as i was the only person who could get within 100 feet of her, let alone work on her, finally, after shaving the entire area, dousing it in alcohol, iodine, and any other antiseptic i could get my hands on, and covering everything with a beeswax/pine sap/turpentine mix and gauze, I succeeded in getting rid of the flies and the infection, once that was done she healed up a 3" round wound on each side of her head in about a month, and by winter time you could never have told she had horns at one time.. That was Lizzy Before the dehorning [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/Rx7man/Moo/xmastime2005006-1.jpg[/img] All patched up [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/Rx7man/Moo/Lillooetjn22006028.jpg[/img] The calf she raised that year [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/Rx7man/Moo/Lillooetjn22006013.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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