cows are prolapsing

[mike calf raiser]

We have had several of our cows prolapse and we don't know what to do. We have them on a very good mineral program, and they have been having good grass throughout the year, and durning winter we feed fescue with a lot of orchard grass and clover that has been wrapped to make silage. We feed dry hay also. Our bull are 2 Black Angus, 3 Limo , 3 Gelv's, all are young execpt for the limo's they are 8 or 9 years old. We are waiting to sell them because we aren't sure the new gelv's that we bought could keep up in one pasture, we have somewhere around 65 to 70 cows in one bunch. what do you all think

 

[Wewild]

What kinda cows? Weight and breed? How many is several?

 

[Beefy]

what breed are the affected cows? all related? big calves? what?

 

[msscamp]

....and durning winter we feed fescue with a lot of orchard grass and clover that has been wrapped to make silage. We feed dry hay also.

How much of each of these feeds are you feeding and how often? It sounds like you might be overfeeding, which has a nasty habit of producing larger calves and potential calving difficulties, and that your cows might be over conditioned themselves, which will not help the situation one bit.

 

[Pooog1]

We had a rash of problems with this some years ago when we raised registered Charolais. It was from a certain bloodline of we were using at the time. Beautiful calves but that doesnt help if you can't keep and continue the program.

 

[A6gal]

Do they have free access to the hay. The overfeeding mentioned by msscamp sounds like a good possibility. Sometimes when a cow is close to calving and they just stand in front of the hay bale and tank up on hay and there is no place for it to go, it pushes everything out the back....prolapse.