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Heifer aborted today.
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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1464429" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Could be a random thing, or could be the beginning of a storm. No way to know without submitting fetus/placenta/maternal serum for testing - and even then, definitive diagnosis may not be possible... especially if placenta is not available. </p><p>Most abortions I've seen in my 30+ years of diagnostics were single events... have rarely been involved in 'abortion storms'... but the do occur. </p><p>Most common infectious cause of abortion that we've seen here in western KY over the past 5-10 years (at least on the cases submitted to the lab, that we were able to come up with a diagnosis on...) has been Neospora - usually second to early-third trimester abortions. </p><p></p><p>On the suggestion of another cow butting a pregnant one and causing abortion... I see folks throw that out there from time to time... I do not think that it happens... or if it does, it's exceedingly rare. Hide, abdominal wall musculature, uterine wall, uterine fluid... those little buggers are pretty well protected in there... I just have serious doubts about another animal causing enough trauma to induce abortion, no matter how many folks have made the claim. That's just my 2 cents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1464429, member: 12607"] Could be a random thing, or could be the beginning of a storm. No way to know without submitting fetus/placenta/maternal serum for testing - and even then, definitive diagnosis may not be possible... especially if placenta is not available. Most abortions I've seen in my 30+ years of diagnostics were single events... have rarely been involved in 'abortion storms'... but the do occur. Most common infectious cause of abortion that we've seen here in western KY over the past 5-10 years (at least on the cases submitted to the lab, that we were able to come up with a diagnosis on...) has been Neospora - usually second to early-third trimester abortions. On the suggestion of another cow butting a pregnant one and causing abortion... I see folks throw that out there from time to time... I do not think that it happens... or if it does, it's exceedingly rare. Hide, abdominal wall musculature, uterine wall, uterine fluid... those little buggers are pretty well protected in there... I just have serious doubts about another animal causing enough trauma to induce abortion, no matter how many folks have made the claim. That's just my 2 cents. [/QUOTE]
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