Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Health & Nutrition
mastitis cow still with us
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 1364594" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>"Milk out what you can" presumably means concentrate on the live quarters to save production.</p><p></p><p>It's anyone's guess if that's possible or not. I haven't had one with true toxic mastitis that came through the ordeal without drying off completely.</p><p></p><p>I did have some heifers in a different herd... one got mastitis, I saw her getting sick I said to the owner that's Black mastitis, he got the vet, the vet said it's not black mastitis but it's certainly heading in that direction.</p><p>We carried on milking her and the quarter blew out and the other affected quarter dropped in production (she was out of my best cow) she milked that first lactation on 2 1/2 quarters and did average production. Two years later as a 3quartered cow she was in the top five cows of my herd. Never got a heifer out of her before she died, unfortunately.</p><p>I saw another heifer and another cow blow out a quarter and carry on milking, at that same time; apparently that's staph mastitis that does that, horrible experience for the cow but once she's over it, production is as good as ever (minus the sloughed quarter, the other three make up the difference). I hope I never see another.</p><p></p><p>You'll know in a month. If she's blowing one or more of her bad quarters at that point you won't be able to cull her anyway, can't remember how long it takes to all heal up might be closer to three months. At that point, if she's got two quarters still working she might as well raise the calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 1364594, member: 9267"] "Milk out what you can" presumably means concentrate on the live quarters to save production. It's anyone's guess if that's possible or not. I haven't had one with true toxic mastitis that came through the ordeal without drying off completely. I did have some heifers in a different herd... one got mastitis, I saw her getting sick I said to the owner that's Black mastitis, he got the vet, the vet said it's not black mastitis but it's certainly heading in that direction. We carried on milking her and the quarter blew out and the other affected quarter dropped in production (she was out of my best cow) she milked that first lactation on 2 1/2 quarters and did average production. Two years later as a 3quartered cow she was in the top five cows of my herd. Never got a heifer out of her before she died, unfortunately. I saw another heifer and another cow blow out a quarter and carry on milking, at that same time; apparently that's staph mastitis that does that, horrible experience for the cow but once she's over it, production is as good as ever (minus the sloughed quarter, the other three make up the difference). I hope I never see another. You'll know in a month. If she's blowing one or more of her bad quarters at that point you won't be able to cull her anyway, can't remember how long it takes to all heal up might be closer to three months. At that point, if she's got two quarters still working she might as well raise the calf. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Health & Nutrition
mastitis cow still with us
Top