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I have a sick yearling ("Hamburger" - the $40/hwt Black steer I bought a month back at auction)
When I bought him on the way home I ran him by the vet and had a full series of shots given to him and also we installed a fly ear tag. He weighs in at about 550 pounds.
Usually he is very friendly and alert (figures since he is destined next Spring for the butcher).
Yesterday I moved him and three shorthorn cows from a corral near the house into a small pasture some 100 yards distant. The corral was shaded by the same oaks that shade my house and the pasture has about 30 feet of oak forrest for shade at the end of it.
He has been hanging out in the shade, and the move was a simple walk, with an occasional nudge so they would hurry up as I didn't have all day. Essentially the actual move was NOT stressful.
Today Hamburger has a yellow/green mucus discharge from one eye, and the eye is defracting light differently than the other, so it is infected.
He also has as of this afternoon a heavy saliva discharge that drags nearly to the ground and he is moving very slow when following the cows up to the water trough. The other cows look fine.
The neighboring cattle ranch with a heard of about 60 has 7 cases of blindness / pink eye in this years calf crop (both eyes!) and a few older cows also with it, or that are entirely blind. They are NOT treating their animals with medication, and have told me they hope not to get nicked too much when they finally take some of them to auction sometime next Spring.
I went by my vet this afternoon and he suggested I feed a medicated feed which has 350 Mg of Chlortetracycline per head per day if fed at the proper ration. And to feed this ration for 10 days.
You all now know as much of the symptoms as my vet knows. Any second guesses or other suggestions?
I do not have a head gate or squeeze chute available on this place (I tore it out and will be re-building it). Shots will be impossible to give unless I borrow a portable chute or call in the vet with his.
Again any suggestions or thoughts?
Thanks!
[email protected]
When I bought him on the way home I ran him by the vet and had a full series of shots given to him and also we installed a fly ear tag. He weighs in at about 550 pounds.
Usually he is very friendly and alert (figures since he is destined next Spring for the butcher).
Yesterday I moved him and three shorthorn cows from a corral near the house into a small pasture some 100 yards distant. The corral was shaded by the same oaks that shade my house and the pasture has about 30 feet of oak forrest for shade at the end of it.
He has been hanging out in the shade, and the move was a simple walk, with an occasional nudge so they would hurry up as I didn't have all day. Essentially the actual move was NOT stressful.
Today Hamburger has a yellow/green mucus discharge from one eye, and the eye is defracting light differently than the other, so it is infected.
He also has as of this afternoon a heavy saliva discharge that drags nearly to the ground and he is moving very slow when following the cows up to the water trough. The other cows look fine.
The neighboring cattle ranch with a heard of about 60 has 7 cases of blindness / pink eye in this years calf crop (both eyes!) and a few older cows also with it, or that are entirely blind. They are NOT treating their animals with medication, and have told me they hope not to get nicked too much when they finally take some of them to auction sometime next Spring.
I went by my vet this afternoon and he suggested I feed a medicated feed which has 350 Mg of Chlortetracycline per head per day if fed at the proper ration. And to feed this ration for 10 days.
You all now know as much of the symptoms as my vet knows. Any second guesses or other suggestions?
I do not have a head gate or squeeze chute available on this place (I tore it out and will be re-building it). Shots will be impossible to give unless I borrow a portable chute or call in the vet with his.
Again any suggestions or thoughts?
Thanks!
[email protected]
