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Sick yearling HELP! Weird case!
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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1628256" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>I am guessing this is your pet, so most advice you receive here would not be what you want to hear. I can't imagine putting the money and effort into a yearling steer in order to IV and tube feed him. Most steers at that age are being fed out before they are butchered, and in today's market making a profit is already difficult on even a healthy animal. I guess if it were me, I would try to donate him to the University. They might be able to discover something about the cause with an necropsy. I would be hesitant to butcher him with his health being in question and withdrawal time for medications still being a possible issue. You could put a magnet in him and see if that makes a difference. If he is your pet and you're willing to spend the money, I guess an xray might be tried. If you let the University have him, I'd be interested in what they find. </p><p></p><p>I am curious about him burping up the green liquid rather than swallowing it. I had a cow once that was very difficult to put weight on and would also burp up green juice. There would be a pool of green in front of where she laid chewing her cud. When she was a heifer, pregnant with her first calf, she got herself somehow wedged up against a down tree. When we found her she could not rise until my husband drug her away from the tree. At first she could not walk on one leg, and we assumed it was injured, but it was apparently just asleep. She was able to walk after a little recovery time, but did not follow and graze with the rest of the herd for two days. She raised a good calf the next spring and was one of the first to breed the next two years. I culled her as a four year old after her third calf, because she was always too thin. I always wondered if there was damage to her rumen from being down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1628256, member: 9933"] I am guessing this is your pet, so most advice you receive here would not be what you want to hear. I can't imagine putting the money and effort into a yearling steer in order to IV and tube feed him. Most steers at that age are being fed out before they are butchered, and in today's market making a profit is already difficult on even a healthy animal. I guess if it were me, I would try to donate him to the University. They might be able to discover something about the cause with an necropsy. I would be hesitant to butcher him with his health being in question and withdrawal time for medications still being a possible issue. You could put a magnet in him and see if that makes a difference. If he is your pet and you're willing to spend the money, I guess an xray might be tried. If you let the University have him, I'd be interested in what they find. I am curious about him burping up the green liquid rather than swallowing it. I had a cow once that was very difficult to put weight on and would also burp up green juice. There would be a pool of green in front of where she laid chewing her cud. When she was a heifer, pregnant with her first calf, she got herself somehow wedged up against a down tree. When we found her she could not rise until my husband drug her away from the tree. At first she could not walk on one leg, and we assumed it was injured, but it was apparently just asleep. She was able to walk after a little recovery time, but did not follow and graze with the rest of the herd for two days. She raised a good calf the next spring and was one of the first to breed the next two years. I culled her as a four year old after her third calf, because she was always too thin. I always wondered if there was damage to her rumen from being down. [/QUOTE]
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