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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 94374" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>jeanne, i dont in any way doubt that what you are saying is true about the good bugs inside. however, here in sw missouri, from april 1 until nov 1 we have flies. if that afterbirth is hanging there over a week, it rots and the flies attack it and lay their eggs and pretty quickly the maggots have eaten themselves inside the cow through the afterbirth and you then have a cow that is full of infection and full of maggots and suffers terribly and probably dies. by taking all your advice and doing it that way, i would still cut or trim the afterbirth that is hanging outside to prevent this from happening. also, there are different stages of the afterbirth. i believe there is a big difference in how you treat a cow that has a strand of afterbirth hanging out or a cow that has the entire glob of it hanging. when the entire glob is hanging and it is several inches thick and dragging the ground, for several days, the blood and the filth is terrrible and there has to be something done. also, no dairyman could milk that cow in that condition due to sanitary milk conditiions. when it is that bad, there is something that is not going to turn loose, but will tear something else loose. most every time the afterbirth will come out on its own, but there is a rare occurance when that cow needs help</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 94374, member: 1150"] jeanne, i dont in any way doubt that what you are saying is true about the good bugs inside. however, here in sw missouri, from april 1 until nov 1 we have flies. if that afterbirth is hanging there over a week, it rots and the flies attack it and lay their eggs and pretty quickly the maggots have eaten themselves inside the cow through the afterbirth and you then have a cow that is full of infection and full of maggots and suffers terribly and probably dies. by taking all your advice and doing it that way, i would still cut or trim the afterbirth that is hanging outside to prevent this from happening. also, there are different stages of the afterbirth. i believe there is a big difference in how you treat a cow that has a strand of afterbirth hanging out or a cow that has the entire glob of it hanging. when the entire glob is hanging and it is several inches thick and dragging the ground, for several days, the blood and the filth is terrrible and there has to be something done. also, no dairyman could milk that cow in that condition due to sanitary milk conditiions. when it is that bad, there is something that is not going to turn loose, but will tear something else loose. most every time the afterbirth will come out on its own, but there is a rare occurance when that cow needs help [/QUOTE]
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