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Cow won't gain weight
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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 913490" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>I hate to add salt to the wound - but - her calves "most likely" also have it. Johnes is a nasty disease - very hard to detect. Impossible to detect early in life. Can't test them til after they are 2 years of age. Generally, it shows itself after their fist calf (stress).</p><p>It is easily passed thru the colostrum & of course any manure she has passed and might have been exposed to her teats. All cattle in your herd are being exposed. It lives in the soil for quite a long time. Mature cattle virtually never can get it, but all newborns in the herd are easily affected.</p><p>Johnes cow passes manure, another cow lays in it (even out on grass) and she gets it on her teats exposing her own calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 913490, member: 968"] I hate to add salt to the wound - but - her calves "most likely" also have it. Johnes is a nasty disease - very hard to detect. Impossible to detect early in life. Can't test them til after they are 2 years of age. Generally, it shows itself after their fist calf (stress). It is easily passed thru the colostrum & of course any manure she has passed and might have been exposed to her teats. All cattle in your herd are being exposed. It lives in the soil for quite a long time. Mature cattle virtually never can get it, but all newborns in the herd are easily affected. Johnes cow passes manure, another cow lays in it (even out on grass) and she gets it on her teats exposing her own calf. [/QUOTE]
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