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Dead Cow Walking, I need Help!
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<blockquote data-quote="msscamp" data-source="post: 665714" data-attributes="member: 539"><p>You know, I used to have your attitude. I thought I knew enough about how to tell if an animal was healthy that I didn't have to worry about bringing in a disastrous disease to my herd. I bought 2 very nice, perfectly healthy does to add to my goat herd. I also quarantined them for the recommended length of time. About 3 months after adding them to the herd, I had a number of does delivering prematurely. Kids were being delivered weak and, if they were not dead at birth, they died soon after birth. It just so happened that 2 does delivered in the same day - one had a set of twins, the other had a single - all of them were dead. That set off a bell in my head, I took them to the vet and had them tested. Those "2 perfectly healthy does" introduced Q Fever into my herd. My vet was astute enough to recognize the symptoms and suggested that I start feeding Aueromycin before we ever had a difinitive diagnoses from the state lab, and that cut my losses by a very significant degree. The final tally was 10 dead kids. It's just a matter of time before you get caught in the same type of nightmare. Before you state that my problem was with goats, and that doesn't have anything to do with cattle, Q Fever is transmissible to cattle and causes the same kinds of problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="msscamp, post: 665714, member: 539"] You know, I used to have your attitude. I thought I knew enough about how to tell if an animal was healthy that I didn't have to worry about bringing in a disastrous disease to my herd. I bought 2 very nice, perfectly healthy does to add to my goat herd. I also quarantined them for the recommended length of time. About 3 months after adding them to the herd, I had a number of does delivering prematurely. Kids were being delivered weak and, if they were not dead at birth, they died soon after birth. It just so happened that 2 does delivered in the same day - one had a set of twins, the other had a single - all of them were dead. That set off a bell in my head, I took them to the vet and had them tested. Those "2 perfectly healthy does" introduced Q Fever into my herd. My vet was astute enough to recognize the symptoms and suggested that I start feeding Aueromycin before we ever had a difinitive diagnoses from the state lab, and that cut my losses by a very significant degree. The final tally was 10 dead kids. It's just a matter of time before you get caught in the same type of nightmare. Before you state that my problem was with goats, and that doesn't have anything to do with cattle, Q Fever is transmissible to cattle and causes the same kinds of problems. [/QUOTE]
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