Got a 10 year old cow w/4 month old calf. She's been healthy but she was marked to be culled as soon as we could easily wean the calf. We put her with the fall calving group & another cow w/calf destined to be culled so we could load her out at any time. That was Sept 5th that she was moved to the small pasture. She was fine that evening. Sat morning, Sept 8th, she had a swelling under her jaw that looked similar to 'bottle jaw'. She couldn't eat hay or grass, she could lick at some grain but not really chew. She could drink. Called the vet about noon, he got back with us later and was still tied up. We decided not to call another vet since she could drink.
Sunday morning the swelling extended up around the side of her face. Vet saw her late Sunday afternoon. He couldn't figure out what was wrong. He said it didn't look quite like 'bottle jaw' since the swelling didn't go as far back as bottle jaw. Besides, it had a quick onset, and we could rule out the common reasons for bottle jaw. He thought she might have been stung by hornets, but couldn't find any evidence. He gave her a shot of Banamine for the swelling & pain. She started to slowly get better and by Wednesday we knew she'd recover. I weaned her calf on Thursday figuring her milk production would have dropped way off while she wasn't eating and no sense restarting it at this point. We kept the calf in an adjoining pen to keep her from fretting too much.
We've got a friend that also thinks it could have been hornets, or maybe a spider. Has anyone had hornets or maybe a spider injure a cow?
Sunday morning the swelling extended up around the side of her face. Vet saw her late Sunday afternoon. He couldn't figure out what was wrong. He said it didn't look quite like 'bottle jaw' since the swelling didn't go as far back as bottle jaw. Besides, it had a quick onset, and we could rule out the common reasons for bottle jaw. He thought she might have been stung by hornets, but couldn't find any evidence. He gave her a shot of Banamine for the swelling & pain. She started to slowly get better and by Wednesday we knew she'd recover. I weaned her calf on Thursday figuring her milk production would have dropped way off while she wasn't eating and no sense restarting it at this point. We kept the calf in an adjoining pen to keep her from fretting too much.
We've got a friend that also thinks it could have been hornets, or maybe a spider. Has anyone had hornets or maybe a spider injure a cow?