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Lost a healthy heifer in three days. What gives?
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<blockquote data-quote="cowgirl8" data-source="post: 1117787" data-attributes="member: 22072"><p>You mentioned rabies. We had a calf get rabies, our whole family had to get shots. We would have never known this calf had rabies, it just got lethargic and died(happens sometimes to orphaned calves). When it started getting sick i was teaching it to eat grain. Had my hand in its mouth every day until a few days before it died. I would have gotten rabies, i had fresh open cuts on my hands from working cows at that time. I was the only one handling the calf, but just in case someone didnt remember messing with it or letting the dog lick them, all of us got shots. </p><p>The way we found out it had rabies is about a couple months before it died, i picked up a stray dog on the side of the road. She had been sitting there a couple days, i couldnt stand seeing it there another day and brought her home. Turns out the dog was blind, had a old broken shoulder(frozen joint) and a gimpy back leg. She technically only had 2 legs so she couldnt move around good. When i got her at the house she would wander around outside the yard where the mule and donkey were. They would go after her so i locked her up with the calf. About a month before they showed signs, we did find a dead skunk in the stables, but that wasnt all that unusual...She showed signs of rabies first. She went down hill fast and we took her to the vet. He suspected maybe rabies so we had her head sent off, then the calf died before we got the results. Sent its head off and it was rabid too....I think to this day that if i hadnt picked up that blind dog we would have never known that calf had rabies and well, my family would wonder where i got it. Or, if i had decided to keep the dog( i was thinking we wouldnt) and had her vaccinated she wouldnt have gotten rabies but the calf would. One time i'm glad i procrastinated...lol</p><p>The dog and calf had dumb rabies. They showed no signs of aggression. The dog did walk around howling the day before she went comatose. The calf just got droopy and progressively went downhill. No foaming at the mouth, nothing to point to rabies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowgirl8, post: 1117787, member: 22072"] You mentioned rabies. We had a calf get rabies, our whole family had to get shots. We would have never known this calf had rabies, it just got lethargic and died(happens sometimes to orphaned calves). When it started getting sick i was teaching it to eat grain. Had my hand in its mouth every day until a few days before it died. I would have gotten rabies, i had fresh open cuts on my hands from working cows at that time. I was the only one handling the calf, but just in case someone didnt remember messing with it or letting the dog lick them, all of us got shots. The way we found out it had rabies is about a couple months before it died, i picked up a stray dog on the side of the road. She had been sitting there a couple days, i couldnt stand seeing it there another day and brought her home. Turns out the dog was blind, had a old broken shoulder(frozen joint) and a gimpy back leg. She technically only had 2 legs so she couldnt move around good. When i got her at the house she would wander around outside the yard where the mule and donkey were. They would go after her so i locked her up with the calf. About a month before they showed signs, we did find a dead skunk in the stables, but that wasnt all that unusual...She showed signs of rabies first. She went down hill fast and we took her to the vet. He suspected maybe rabies so we had her head sent off, then the calf died before we got the results. Sent its head off and it was rabid too....I think to this day that if i hadnt picked up that blind dog we would have never known that calf had rabies and well, my family would wonder where i got it. Or, if i had decided to keep the dog( i was thinking we wouldnt) and had her vaccinated she wouldnt have gotten rabies but the calf would. One time i'm glad i procrastinated...lol The dog and calf had dumb rabies. They showed no signs of aggression. The dog did walk around howling the day before she went comatose. The calf just got droopy and progressively went downhill. No foaming at the mouth, nothing to point to rabies. [/QUOTE]
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