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Old Cow...can I keep her alive long enough to calve?
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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 1115790" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>With those symptoms I would definitely be giving calcium pre-calving... it's just too risky not to cover that base.</p><p>I'm presuming this will be a supervised calving and calcium will be given again right up till she's out of risk for milk fever. If it was me I'd give her an oral boost of calcium/mag when she goes into labor then every twelve hours unless she's so bright and alert she obviously doesn't need it, for 2 - 3 days after calving. Magnesium is important too; it does have a role in preventing milk fever.</p><p></p><p>Wisteria, good luck with her, sounds like if she can just hang on a few more days you should get a live calf.</p><p>I sometimes get a cow that either doesn't gain or is slow to gain weight in spite of good feeding - lack of teeth would certainly be enough to cause it but most of mine would be due to liver damage from accumulated toxins. Possibility of subclinical disease pulling her back. Fifteen isn't that old but it's old enough for a life-time's immune challenges to catch up on her.</p><p>We had a cow down once for twelve days with nerve damage, calved in the night and stood up, she was pretty skinny because all she had to eat was the grass I cut and put in a wheelbarrow for her several times a day; I think she heard my boss saying if she hadn't calved by tomorrow he was going to shoot her because in the morning she was on her feet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 1115790, member: 9267"] With those symptoms I would definitely be giving calcium pre-calving... it's just too risky not to cover that base. I'm presuming this will be a supervised calving and calcium will be given again right up till she's out of risk for milk fever. If it was me I'd give her an oral boost of calcium/mag when she goes into labor then every twelve hours unless she's so bright and alert she obviously doesn't need it, for 2 - 3 days after calving. Magnesium is important too; it does have a role in preventing milk fever. Wisteria, good luck with her, sounds like if she can just hang on a few more days you should get a live calf. I sometimes get a cow that either doesn't gain or is slow to gain weight in spite of good feeding - lack of teeth would certainly be enough to cause it but most of mine would be due to liver damage from accumulated toxins. Possibility of subclinical disease pulling her back. Fifteen isn't that old but it's old enough for a life-time's immune challenges to catch up on her. We had a cow down once for twelve days with nerve damage, calved in the night and stood up, she was pretty skinny because all she had to eat was the grass I cut and put in a wheelbarrow for her several times a day; I think she heard my boss saying if she hadn't calved by tomorrow he was going to shoot her because in the morning she was on her feet. [/QUOTE]
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