4luvofcattle
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6 year old beef Cow calved Sunday morning. Everything fine. She cleaned off the calf, but we could tell it hadn't nursed. So we got the cow in the chute and she had no milk in front two quarter. When I milked back two quarters, they were pure blood.
Never had issues with the cow before. So have her oxy to get milk to come in and stripped out all quarters and bottle feed calf with man made milk replacer. Front two quarters were good, but didn't want to give to calf, just in case.
Mastitis couldn't set in that fast and it is not like any mastitis I have seen before. Bag was not hot and felt soft, not hard.
Gave cow antibiotics and continued to strip quarters for 3 days. Milk is fine, but quarters are showing discoloration. Like it is bruising. Calf is now nursing on the bag and the cow seems fine, but the bruising concerns me.
I had a cow that had a bruised udder last year and ended up losing one of her quarters. Strangest thing how the bag bruised, cracked and festered.
Read something about gangrenous mastitis, but didn't know if that was only in dairy cows and if it would come on so fast.
Any ideas of treatment would be greatly appreciated!!
Never had issues with the cow before. So have her oxy to get milk to come in and stripped out all quarters and bottle feed calf with man made milk replacer. Front two quarters were good, but didn't want to give to calf, just in case.
Mastitis couldn't set in that fast and it is not like any mastitis I have seen before. Bag was not hot and felt soft, not hard.
Gave cow antibiotics and continued to strip quarters for 3 days. Milk is fine, but quarters are showing discoloration. Like it is bruising. Calf is now nursing on the bag and the cow seems fine, but the bruising concerns me.
I had a cow that had a bruised udder last year and ended up losing one of her quarters. Strangest thing how the bag bruised, cracked and festered.
Read something about gangrenous mastitis, but didn't know if that was only in dairy cows and if it would come on so fast.
Any ideas of treatment would be greatly appreciated!!