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<blockquote data-quote="Cheyenne" data-source="post: 203329" data-attributes="member: 1519"><p>I also agree with Caustic. In my opinion your "more TLC" and wait and see attitude is going to cost you a cow and a calf.</p><p></p><p>My opinion FWIW is that you need to get the vet out there to clean out the wound and hit her with some stronger antibiotics than penicillin. Especially if you think she was bitten twice. If you continue to let the infection get worse, it will eventually get into her blood stream and if it doesn't kill her it will probably harm the calf. </p><p></p><p>If this wound doesn't start healing soon y'all are going to be getting into fly season soon I assume. What are you going to do about fly and maggot control? Are you going to let her get eaten from the inside out also?</p><p></p><p>I am not an experienced cattleperson, we raise a couple of bottle calves for 4-h projects and have a few head of feeders for friends and family, no they are not pets, but I would never, never, never let an animal go untreated by a vet with this type of injury. </p><p></p><p>I just hope you can explain to your children why their pet cow died, when she could have been properly treated and saved. </p><p></p><p>You have been given this same advice more than once on this post and seem to have ignored it previous so I am not sure why I am wasting my time, but if you can't see the logic, reasoning and common sense behind all of this good advice then maybe you should consider selling your cows and raising poodles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cheyenne, post: 203329, member: 1519"] I also agree with Caustic. In my opinion your "more TLC" and wait and see attitude is going to cost you a cow and a calf. My opinion FWIW is that you need to get the vet out there to clean out the wound and hit her with some stronger antibiotics than penicillin. Especially if you think she was bitten twice. If you continue to let the infection get worse, it will eventually get into her blood stream and if it doesn't kill her it will probably harm the calf. If this wound doesn't start healing soon y'all are going to be getting into fly season soon I assume. What are you going to do about fly and maggot control? Are you going to let her get eaten from the inside out also? I am not an experienced cattleperson, we raise a couple of bottle calves for 4-h projects and have a few head of feeders for friends and family, no they are not pets, but I would never, never, never let an animal go untreated by a vet with this type of injury. I just hope you can explain to your children why their pet cow died, when she could have been properly treated and saved. You have been given this same advice more than once on this post and seem to have ignored it previous so I am not sure why I am wasting my time, but if you can't see the logic, reasoning and common sense behind all of this good advice then maybe you should consider selling your cows and raising poodles. [/QUOTE]
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