TexasJerseyMilker
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Here is a good article that discusses the severe consequences of plastic ingestion in cattle, a problem often overlooked and difficult to diagnose. Plastic can block the digestive system, leading to symptoms like diarrhea, bloating, and eventually death. Diagnosis is challenging, and many cases go undetected or misattributed to other diseases. Prevention measures include diligent removal of plastic from grazing areas. Unlike diseases, no vaccine or specific treatment exists, making proactive management essential. Owners may never know the true cause of unexplained cattle deaths due to plastic ingestion.:
I found this https://www.cattletoday.com/threads/plastic-disease.133761/
My 3 bottle heifers would eat anything. One time they broke into the milking parlor and ate a bunch nitrile milking gloves. I worried over this and watched their pies for days but they remained healthy with good appetite. No gloves were pooped out. Then came a heavy rain and washed down the pies. There were hundreds of tiny blue bits of chewed up milking gloves in their poop.
Baling twine I collect every piece and make sure there none in the hay I carry out. One time what do I see but my old pet cow with a couple of feet of orange twine coming out her mouth. I ran to get it but she kept spinning away as she kept swallowing it. I finally got ahold of the last foot and pulled out 8 or 10 feet. It's those backward pointed little hooks cattle mouths are lined with. In Oregon they made those plastic grocery sacks illegal. Now they are not blowing across the fields anymore. Someone had put out a plastic wrapped baleage and left the plastic. I turned my yearlings in and they headed right for it.
Here is a good article that discusses the severe consequences of plastic ingestion in cattle, a problem often overlooked and difficult to diagnose. Plastic can block the digestive system, leading to symptoms like diarrhea, bloating, and eventually death. Diagnosis is challenging, and many cases go undetected or misattributed to other diseases. Prevention measures include diligent removal of plastic from grazing areas. Unlike diseases, no vaccine or specific treatment exists, making proactive management essential. Owners may never know the true cause of unexplained cattle deaths due to plastic ingestion.:
I found this https://www.cattletoday.com/threads/plastic-disease.133761/
My 3 bottle heifers would eat anything. One time they broke into the milking parlor and ate a bunch nitrile milking gloves. I worried over this and watched their pies for days but they remained healthy with good appetite. No gloves were pooped out. Then came a heavy rain and washed down the pies. There were hundreds of tiny blue bits of chewed up milking gloves in their poop.
Baling twine I collect every piece and make sure there none in the hay I carry out. One time what do I see but my old pet cow with a couple of feet of orange twine coming out her mouth. I ran to get it but she kept spinning away as she kept swallowing it. I finally got ahold of the last foot and pulled out 8 or 10 feet. It's those backward pointed little hooks cattle mouths are lined with. In Oregon they made those plastic grocery sacks illegal. Now they are not blowing across the fields anymore. Someone had put out a plastic wrapped baleage and left the plastic. I turned my yearlings in and they headed right for it.
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