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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 788127" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>I see plenty of them, at necropsy, that have evidence of prior bouts of hardware - usually some adhesions between the reticulum, liver, and diaphragm - and it's usually unrelated to the eventual cause of death. Wire or nail is long gone.</p><p>So long as the hardware doesn't migrate through the diaphragm, allowing rumen bacteria access to the pericardial sac, I'd hazard a guess that most of those recover pretty uneventfully.</p><p> </p><p>But, I do see some that develop 'vagus indigestion' - when there's enough localized peritonitis from the wire/nail allowing leakage of contents into the peritoneal cavity, that in the process of 'healing', you get enough scar tissue constricting/impinging on the branches of the vagus nerve that controls function of the rumen. Those cows have decreased or absent ruminal contractions and get a big, fluid-filled rumen - and eventually die; nothing much moving through.</p><p></p><p>Have a first calf heifer in the herd right now that I'm afraid may have hardware - dropped a magnet in her last Saturday, gave her a big slug of Baytril and Cydectin, weaned her calf and put her up in the corral so she can eat and recuperate unhindered. Looking somewhat better, but still moving slow and walking funny in the front end - slow, deliberate steps, with her elbows out and crossing her front feet in front of one another.</p><p>Hoping I didn't fool around and wait too late - she's been 'off' for close to a month now - started out with what I initially thought was a shoulder injury, but she kept getting slower, and started that cross-over front leg pattern with both fore legs. Time will tell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 788127, member: 12607"] I see plenty of them, at necropsy, that have evidence of prior bouts of hardware - usually some adhesions between the reticulum, liver, and diaphragm - and it's usually unrelated to the eventual cause of death. Wire or nail is long gone. So long as the hardware doesn't migrate through the diaphragm, allowing rumen bacteria access to the pericardial sac, I'd hazard a guess that most of those recover pretty uneventfully. But, I do see some that develop 'vagus indigestion' - when there's enough localized peritonitis from the wire/nail allowing leakage of contents into the peritoneal cavity, that in the process of 'healing', you get enough scar tissue constricting/impinging on the branches of the vagus nerve that controls function of the rumen. Those cows have decreased or absent ruminal contractions and get a big, fluid-filled rumen - and eventually die; nothing much moving through. Have a first calf heifer in the herd right now that I'm afraid may have hardware - dropped a magnet in her last Saturday, gave her a big slug of Baytril and Cydectin, weaned her calf and put her up in the corral so she can eat and recuperate unhindered. Looking somewhat better, but still moving slow and walking funny in the front end - slow, deliberate steps, with her elbows out and crossing her front feet in front of one another. Hoping I didn't fool around and wait too late - she's been 'off' for close to a month now - started out with what I initially thought was a shoulder injury, but she kept getting slower, and started that cross-over front leg pattern with both fore legs. Time will tell. [/QUOTE]
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