Highland Girl
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2002 12:57 am by Vicki the Vet
There are two different mucous discharges which you are lumping into the same category.
#1 Thick slime, often yellowish in colour produced within the last 1-2 months pre calving, usually scant but can certainly slime the tail
#2 Cervical plug; thick, colourless, clear to opaque, ELASTIC which will wrap around tail and anything else nearby, can hang to floor...ONLY found when cervix is dilating, generally within the immediate calving process (stage 1 of labour)
To me they're not interchangeable and easy to tell apart. The cervical plug rarely seems to get coated with manure...thus always looks CLEAR to OPAQUE and is always ELASTIC. If you see it, almost 100% of the time she's calving, and will go within 24 hours.
Clear as mud? V
Can anyone tell me why a cow has the first discharge?
How different do these discharges look to the mucus during estrus?
Thanks
There are two different mucous discharges which you are lumping into the same category.
#1 Thick slime, often yellowish in colour produced within the last 1-2 months pre calving, usually scant but can certainly slime the tail
#2 Cervical plug; thick, colourless, clear to opaque, ELASTIC which will wrap around tail and anything else nearby, can hang to floor...ONLY found when cervix is dilating, generally within the immediate calving process (stage 1 of labour)
To me they're not interchangeable and easy to tell apart. The cervical plug rarely seems to get coated with manure...thus always looks CLEAR to OPAQUE and is always ELASTIC. If you see it, almost 100% of the time she's calving, and will go within 24 hours.
Clear as mud? V
Can anyone tell me why a cow has the first discharge?
How different do these discharges look to the mucus during estrus?
Thanks