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<blockquote data-quote="Keren" data-source="post: 665632" data-attributes="member: 3195"><p>You know, it doesnt need to be an end-of-the-world panic stations disease like Johnes, BSE etc. </p><p></p><p>In the work herd we had a peculiar form of salmonella tear through the place and it was devastating. </p><p></p><p>We had 23 kids born to a group of does, I worked on those kids day and night and out of the whole lot of them only 2 survived. None of the does had any milk. The kids were born premmie, or full term and weak. None could stand at birth. A really really bad scour went through them - I'd never seen anything like that scour, I could be putting milk in one end and it was almost immediately running out the back end. They would take a bottle, within 2 hours be unresponsive, 2 hours after that scouring like I'd never seen, 2 hours after that they were dead, and any other kid that had been near, even before the scouring started, died also. As for the does, they had no milk, most of them retained a placenta, most of them died. Were reasonably okay one day, dead the next. </p><p></p><p>Basically, it was a train wreck. A disaster. Perhaps a vet should have been consulted at the beginning, and I would have saved more? As it was, just by my own research I only figured out what it was right at the end of it all, and it was too late. </p><p></p><p>And before you say that that was goats, not cattle, guess what? It spread to the cattle as well, and I lost 4 very very good cows from it. Also lost a horse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keren, post: 665632, member: 3195"] You know, it doesnt need to be an end-of-the-world panic stations disease like Johnes, BSE etc. In the work herd we had a peculiar form of salmonella tear through the place and it was devastating. We had 23 kids born to a group of does, I worked on those kids day and night and out of the whole lot of them only 2 survived. None of the does had any milk. The kids were born premmie, or full term and weak. None could stand at birth. A really really bad scour went through them - I'd never seen anything like that scour, I could be putting milk in one end and it was almost immediately running out the back end. They would take a bottle, within 2 hours be unresponsive, 2 hours after that scouring like I'd never seen, 2 hours after that they were dead, and any other kid that had been near, even before the scouring started, died also. As for the does, they had no milk, most of them retained a placenta, most of them died. Were reasonably okay one day, dead the next. Basically, it was a train wreck. A disaster. Perhaps a vet should have been consulted at the beginning, and I would have saved more? As it was, just by my own research I only figured out what it was right at the end of it all, and it was too late. And before you say that that was goats, not cattle, guess what? It spread to the cattle as well, and I lost 4 very very good cows from it. Also lost a horse. [/QUOTE]
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