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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 214021" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>Thanks again Linda. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Are you culturing every case of mastitis that shows up? I'll be taking a sample over to the vet clinic in the morning for a culture just to see what we're dealing with. I treated the heifer (well, first lactation cow) this morning, she looked really good this evening with just a few flakes I could barely see...I just want to know if it's staph or not. Staph and I think we'll keep her on drugs for several more days regardless of how she looks tomorrow morning or how quickly she appears clinically clean. I don't like seeing cows reappear with mastitis a few weeks later. How long do you usually treat staph cows? My vet suggested an 8 day regimine, which I'm not sure would be necessary on a really fresh case...don't know. What do you think?</p><p></p><p>Culturing every cow in the herd, or how do you find these few staph cows? have a culturing....whatever you call it...there at the farm? I take all our samples to the vet clinic and we'll have results back in about 18 hours. (BTW, thanks for the tip on freezing the staph samples! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I didn't know that.) Runs $2 for staph, $2.50 for ecoli/coliforms, and staph + strep + ecoli is $5/sample.</p><p></p><p>Out of curiousity, I can't remember at the moment... Do you find that ecoli cases tend to leave scar tissue in the quarter like staph does? The few cultured ones I've seen/felt didn't. My 311 cow came back clean per culture for ecoli, but that L/R quarter still has scar tissue that I can feel and she has a few flakes that show up about every other milking. I wonder if she has something else now, and not ecoli - although that's what she had a positive culture for a month ago when I treated her.</p><p></p><p>Right now I'm just waiting on a few cows to calve, and the next set of calves I get will go on 311. Once she comes back home I can treat her quarter with some heavy duty stuff...right now she's at the dairy and I don't want to hit her with anything that will cause too long of a withdrawal.</p><p></p><p>>>A few years ago we had a milker on the night shift that got it into her head that she should strip that couple of squirts from some of the don't milk quarters. We figured out what had happened when half a dozen cows flared with within days and had the same culture results.... she had carried it to them on her gloves.<<</p><p></p><p>My vet asked me something like that once. Asked if any of these staph cows were 3 quarter cows, and if there was any chance someone had put a milker on all four quarters. Hmmm...that was certainly food for thought! I know I wouldn't have, but I'm not the only one milking cows. That's why I started bringing out green bands...most of these bands are new. Actually all of this is since January when we had a really bad flareup. Since then, and with the bands, things have been good.</p><p></p><p>Makes sense about managing things so you don't have infected cows - it's just that we have a lot we need to deal with in some way and then manage the rest so the clean ones stay clean.</p><p></p><p>How about pre and post dipping cows- you use dip cups or spray-on? We use dip cups and I was just thinking that one over this evening while milking. I do a lot of thinking when I'm working alone, LOL. Could we be spreading bacteria from one cow to the next through use of the iodine dip - or is a straight 1.75% iodine (I think that's what it is) teat dip strong enough to kill bacteria...instantly?</p><p></p><p>While I'm thinking of penicillin, ever tried giving it IMM? Last time I did that was with Twin Pen on 311 last summer; she showed up with a really bad case of "something" - I don't know what. It was before I knew you could culture milk samples (boy have I come a long way, LOL). Treated for about 4 days with ToDAY at 2 tubes morning and night with calves nursing her dry twice a day, no effect with that, went to 20cc's Twin Pen IMM morning and night for two days and at that point she did start to recover; finished up treatment with 3 days on Pirsue per vet's suggestion. Don't know what she had but it was bad and it was certainly GONE by the time I finished treating. :lol:</p><p></p><p>Later...</p><p>MM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 214021, member: 852"] Thanks again Linda. :) Are you culturing every case of mastitis that shows up? I'll be taking a sample over to the vet clinic in the morning for a culture just to see what we're dealing with. I treated the heifer (well, first lactation cow) this morning, she looked really good this evening with just a few flakes I could barely see...I just want to know if it's staph or not. Staph and I think we'll keep her on drugs for several more days regardless of how she looks tomorrow morning or how quickly she appears clinically clean. I don't like seeing cows reappear with mastitis a few weeks later. How long do you usually treat staph cows? My vet suggested an 8 day regimine, which I'm not sure would be necessary on a really fresh case...don't know. What do you think? Culturing every cow in the herd, or how do you find these few staph cows? have a culturing....whatever you call it...there at the farm? I take all our samples to the vet clinic and we'll have results back in about 18 hours. (BTW, thanks for the tip on freezing the staph samples! :) I didn't know that.) Runs $2 for staph, $2.50 for ecoli/coliforms, and staph + strep + ecoli is $5/sample. Out of curiousity, I can't remember at the moment... Do you find that ecoli cases tend to leave scar tissue in the quarter like staph does? The few cultured ones I've seen/felt didn't. My 311 cow came back clean per culture for ecoli, but that L/R quarter still has scar tissue that I can feel and she has a few flakes that show up about every other milking. I wonder if she has something else now, and not ecoli - although that's what she had a positive culture for a month ago when I treated her. Right now I'm just waiting on a few cows to calve, and the next set of calves I get will go on 311. Once she comes back home I can treat her quarter with some heavy duty stuff...right now she's at the dairy and I don't want to hit her with anything that will cause too long of a withdrawal. >>A few years ago we had a milker on the night shift that got it into her head that she should strip that couple of squirts from some of the don't milk quarters. We figured out what had happened when half a dozen cows flared with within days and had the same culture results.... she had carried it to them on her gloves.<< My vet asked me something like that once. Asked if any of these staph cows were 3 quarter cows, and if there was any chance someone had put a milker on all four quarters. Hmmm...that was certainly food for thought! I know I wouldn't have, but I'm not the only one milking cows. That's why I started bringing out green bands...most of these bands are new. Actually all of this is since January when we had a really bad flareup. Since then, and with the bands, things have been good. Makes sense about managing things so you don't have infected cows - it's just that we have a lot we need to deal with in some way and then manage the rest so the clean ones stay clean. How about pre and post dipping cows- you use dip cups or spray-on? We use dip cups and I was just thinking that one over this evening while milking. I do a lot of thinking when I'm working alone, LOL. Could we be spreading bacteria from one cow to the next through use of the iodine dip - or is a straight 1.75% iodine (I think that's what it is) teat dip strong enough to kill bacteria...instantly? While I'm thinking of penicillin, ever tried giving it IMM? Last time I did that was with Twin Pen on 311 last summer; she showed up with a really bad case of "something" - I don't know what. It was before I knew you could culture milk samples (boy have I come a long way, LOL). Treated for about 4 days with ToDAY at 2 tubes morning and night with calves nursing her dry twice a day, no effect with that, went to 20cc's Twin Pen IMM morning and night for two days and at that point she did start to recover; finished up treatment with 3 days on Pirsue per vet's suggestion. Don't know what she had but it was bad and it was certainly GONE by the time I finished treating. :lol: Later... MM [/QUOTE]
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