For what? Ivomec is not a vaccineBtw forget to
Mention that We vaccinate January and June/July so any calf's born after that month they will be vaccinated on the next round.
For what? Ivomec is not a vaccineBtw forget to
Mention that We vaccinate January and June/July so any calf's born after that month they will be vaccinated on the next round.
When that happens in this area - north central Washington - its either a poisonous weed that has shown up or they consumed pine needles. But you've got a lot of good advice from others here.So this is our 4th and 5th one this year. I have a feeling the two bulls we had before were somehow related to the heifers and cows we have. I'm so annoyed. I also had another calf born a day later looks fine and all except she's 56 lbs. my dad originally blamed it on the moon I said that's an old wives tale. What do you guys think??
It's not but that's when we do it down there 2x a year. However this year I'm stopping I have no presence of dung beetles our land is probably shot.For what? Ivomec is not a vaccine
The abortions are over a 12 month period. Between both herds it's 240 cows/heifers/calf's and steers. The herd that's producing this is the older herd. The daughters from the older herd have not produced this problem then again only five calf's that have been born from that herd so far with one dying 3 days later(calf was 25lbs) . The land/weeds/grasses are the same. We haven't done any testing, then again I'm in the middle of nowhere. I'm thinking I'm just going to sell those cows and hopefully the new sires don't present this problem. I am however going to look for a laboratory down there and see if its because the cow ate something she wasn't supposed to but I really doubt it.4th and 5th abortion this year?
Over what time period? Are we talking over the last month or so, or spread out over the entire 12 month period?
How many cows in the herd? If you only have 20, that's a big hit... if you have 1000, 4 or 5 is not necessarily out of line.
Have you had any diagnostic testing performed on any of them? I'd want to rule out infectious/toxic causes of abortion before I started chasing some nebulous 'inbreeding' issue.
The fetus with the 'deformed' head looks to have had a meningocele and cheiloschisis(cleft lip) - both of which are congenital defects, but not heritable.
I think the question gcreek was asking is what vaccines did you give them?
Is there a chance you gave a modified live to cows that were not on a modified live vaccine program?
edit: or were nursing calves given a modified live vaccine who's mothers had not been on a mlv program?
Hey Ken, IBR can cause late term abortions, BVD generally any time in our experience. Seems to me Lupine can cause those types of deformities.our friend Greg was one that lived although his feed conversion is not the best. I have been mistaken before.Lucky, what is your take on BVD causing defects like this. Are they more related to the CNS?
Ken
Or no vaccination program at all and they picked up a bug from somewhere. This person beating around the bush a lot for having direct questions put their way from those of us who would like to help.
Oh well............
Maybe Multimin or some such is a vaccine now.......
As the OP is unable or unwilling to share the whole story and asked for help through a wall smoke and mirrors, I was definitely speaking tongue in cheekI think you know Multimin isn't a vaccine. It is a great way to help your herd with minerals and trace minerals. In turn to help the health of your cow/calf pairs and herd bulls. We are very impressed with what we have see it do for us. Jmo