Chelshvrcattle
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Ok so we have a yearling steer who we raised as a bottle calf. When he was a newborn he was sick with what we believe was coccidiosis. We treated him and he recovered beautifully and has been completely healthy and happy until about 4 weeks ago when he became suddenly ill. Basically, he was lethargic and lost weight. He had the desire to eat but it was as if he couldn't. We had to end up having to give him IV fluids and tube feeding him for about a week. Long story short, our vet ended up treating him with sodium iodide for possibly early wooden tongue which did help because at that point he was able to start grazing and eating on his own. We also had a equine dentist examine his teeth and mouth.
However- he is still not right and he has both our vets as well as a team at Colorado State vet school who our vet reached out to completely stumped.
His current symptoms-
-he grazes and eats hay however doesn't seem to get all that he picks, drops about half back out. He is constantly grazing as if he isn't getting full.
-He has a full pot belly but is still thin (sunken in at hips, can feel ribs and loose wrinkled skin at neck and brisket)
-His skin is extremely dry and flakey which we were told can be from the sodium iodide however he was treated with that 2 weeks ago and since then it randomly got a little better and then got way worse again
-He has a couple hard bumps in his neck under the skin which we believe is from vaccines but has not gone away.
-The couple times he has laid down and appears to be chewing his cud, he burps it up and it is green liquid- very abnormal
-His saliva and mouth have a foul rubber like odor.
-His manure is mostly normal.
Our vet considered hardware disease, some sort of foreign object in his gut, so I'm thinking our next step will be a ultrasound or X-ray but figured I'd check with my fellow cattle community first for any thoughts.
However- he is still not right and he has both our vets as well as a team at Colorado State vet school who our vet reached out to completely stumped.
His current symptoms-
-he grazes and eats hay however doesn't seem to get all that he picks, drops about half back out. He is constantly grazing as if he isn't getting full.
-He has a full pot belly but is still thin (sunken in at hips, can feel ribs and loose wrinkled skin at neck and brisket)
-His skin is extremely dry and flakey which we were told can be from the sodium iodide however he was treated with that 2 weeks ago and since then it randomly got a little better and then got way worse again
-He has a couple hard bumps in his neck under the skin which we believe is from vaccines but has not gone away.
-The couple times he has laid down and appears to be chewing his cud, he burps it up and it is green liquid- very abnormal
-His saliva and mouth have a foul rubber like odor.
-His manure is mostly normal.
Our vet considered hardware disease, some sort of foreign object in his gut, so I'm thinking our next step will be a ultrasound or X-ray but figured I'd check with my fellow cattle community first for any thoughts.