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Lost a healthy heifer in three days. What gives?
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<blockquote data-quote="lastcowboy32" data-source="post: 1117848" data-attributes="member: 21810"><p>In the spirit of full disclosure, I should elaborate on my vet experience. At a different farm, my wife and I called the vet alot. Standard stuff, like preg checks and milk fever came out OK. Pneumonia? Seemed as though they could prolong it; but not really cure it. Little sniffles and stuff? No problem; but the cows may have come through that anyway. (Read about mastitis. Much of it self-resolves; so many times, you think a drug cured it; but it was going away anyway.) Through that, I had a few instances of high bills and dead cows. I also got a speech every time about why I should feed milk replacer as opposed to spare milk from the cows. (Not diseased milk, just spare milk.) Tge last straw was a cat that I needed spayed. They charged me three times what I could have it done for at another vet. I was out of work and complained; but I did pay the bill. Since then, seems like they don't want to talk to me. The other large animal vet in the area isn't taking new patients. So, what I have is a friend who has her own dairy herd and a small animal practice. She does my dogs and cats for spaying, neutering and such; and she gets me medications for my cows, along with advice. Naybe the moral of the story...along with keeping your animals on a high plane of nutrition...is kiss your large animal vet's behind; because he/she may be your only option.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lastcowboy32, post: 1117848, member: 21810"] In the spirit of full disclosure, I should elaborate on my vet experience. At a different farm, my wife and I called the vet alot. Standard stuff, like preg checks and milk fever came out OK. Pneumonia? Seemed as though they could prolong it; but not really cure it. Little sniffles and stuff? No problem; but the cows may have come through that anyway. (Read about mastitis. Much of it self-resolves; so many times, you think a drug cured it; but it was going away anyway.) Through that, I had a few instances of high bills and dead cows. I also got a speech every time about why I should feed milk replacer as opposed to spare milk from the cows. (Not diseased milk, just spare milk.) Tge last straw was a cat that I needed spayed. They charged me three times what I could have it done for at another vet. I was out of work and complained; but I did pay the bill. Since then, seems like they don't want to talk to me. The other large animal vet in the area isn't taking new patients. So, what I have is a friend who has her own dairy herd and a small animal practice. She does my dogs and cats for spaying, neutering and such; and she gets me medications for my cows, along with advice. Naybe the moral of the story...along with keeping your animals on a high plane of nutrition...is kiss your large animal vet's behind; because he/she may be your only option. [/QUOTE]
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