Reddish brown teat

[Holmesfarm]

one of our herford cows we noticed today has one back quarter teat and little back teat are red or brownish. that side of her bag is alot smaller than the other side. very lopsided she is bred but not expecting to calf for 4 weeks yet. she has passed some mucus a week ago three big plops about the side of tennis balls. not sure of her age she has calfed for us four times so far and is eating fine and has no discomfort.anybody else ever seen this

 

[milkmaid]

Probably had mastitis at some point in the last several weeks, maybe months. I'd leave it completely alone... the infection's probably been and gone already, and with any luck the inside of the teat will have scarred over so no milk (that might possibly have mastitis-causing pathogens) will come out. If the calf can nurse off that quarter and there's still an active infection, chances are that the other quarters will also become infected. So just leave her be and check her in the fall at weaning to see if the other three quarters are normal, and keep or cull based on that.