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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1389766" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>If you are trying to save the vet call then I would just make her hamburger. For me, if she was a cow that I wanted to keep, then I'd call the vet. If he said cull her, then I would at least know what it was and feel better that I knew. Our vet calls run $100 a trip too, but I am one to err on the side of wanting to know. Had a 7-8 yr old cow with a growth on the corner of her eye, probably near size of a tennis ball that grew quickly, got cut/rubbed so it was a bloody oozing mess. She had a month old calf on her. Had the vet remove it, sewed the corner back together and it healed up just fine. Wasn't thinking about keeping her past that calf, but she come up bred at the preg ck so said well, why not. She is working on her 3rd calf since the initial surgery on the eye and you would never know it. She has had nice calves, and if we had just sold her she wouldn't have brought anything thinking it was cancer eye. Too old for hamburger when we had plenty of meat in the freezer. That was the right decision for us and she doesn't owe us a thing. Well worth the $150 vet bill. And some you bury, but at least if you had the vet that $100 wouldn't greatly increase the value of the hamburger you get.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1389766, member: 25884"] If you are trying to save the vet call then I would just make her hamburger. For me, if she was a cow that I wanted to keep, then I'd call the vet. If he said cull her, then I would at least know what it was and feel better that I knew. Our vet calls run $100 a trip too, but I am one to err on the side of wanting to know. Had a 7-8 yr old cow with a growth on the corner of her eye, probably near size of a tennis ball that grew quickly, got cut/rubbed so it was a bloody oozing mess. She had a month old calf on her. Had the vet remove it, sewed the corner back together and it healed up just fine. Wasn't thinking about keeping her past that calf, but she come up bred at the preg ck so said well, why not. She is working on her 3rd calf since the initial surgery on the eye and you would never know it. She has had nice calves, and if we had just sold her she wouldn't have brought anything thinking it was cancer eye. Too old for hamburger when we had plenty of meat in the freezer. That was the right decision for us and she doesn't owe us a thing. Well worth the $150 vet bill. And some you bury, but at least if you had the vet that $100 wouldn't greatly increase the value of the hamburger you get. [/QUOTE]
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