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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 216271" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>Younger animal's probably been infected for a shorter period of time. :lol2: ;-)</p><p></p><p>I had a culture ran on one of my nurse cows yesterday, and -no surprise to me- it came back as staph aureus. I thought it was going to. I'd treated her before for a culture result of ecoli, and the culture I ran two weeks ago showed her clean of ecoli but she still had flakes and a lot of scar tissue. I didn't think ecoli resulted <em>that </em>kind of scarring since it doesn't feed on blood and destroy tissue like staph does.</p><p></p><p>Guess we'll see if I can come up with a cure for a lactating cow, eh? lol. :? Right now I'm waiting on a test to see what her staph infection is succeptible to before I start treatment.</p><p></p><p>J and L - how do you dry your cows off? some folks just completely cease milking them, others milk once a day for a few days to slow them down first, we've done it both ways. Not sure if I prefer one over the other. If the cow has a subclinical case of mastitis, once a day milking sure seems to make it flare up in a hurry. LOL. Maybe that's not a bad thing, because then you know it's there??</p><p></p><p>Yep I did mean intramammary by IMM...sorry if that wasn't clear. Yeast infections are something I'm aware can occur, but haven't encountered before. How do you treat them?</p><p></p><p>I swapped a few bands around yesterday and then explained to boss what I was up to. Green band is now on the leg that's the same side as the quarter we don't milk. So if the band's on the right side...it's a right quarter. So far I don't have an identification for which quarter (rear or front), but we'll get there. But then on the other hand, what if you have a two quarter cow. And then let's say she's chronic in one quarter, and later there's an infection in the other quarter that we decide to treat. Well now, this cow might have two green bands on each leg, one black band (chronic), one red on each leg (treated)...we might as well pull out a piece of white tape and just start writing on it. :lol2:</p><p></p><p>Also, J and L, when you use Polyflex, how do you mix it? We ordered in a bottle of Polyflex and I didn't realize it had to be reconstituted/rehydrated, whatever you call it. Looks like it can be mixed so as to provide 200, 250, or 400mg/mL. Any thoughts on what concentration works best?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 216271, member: 852"] Younger animal's probably been infected for a shorter period of time. :lol2: ;-) I had a culture ran on one of my nurse cows yesterday, and -no surprise to me- it came back as staph aureus. I thought it was going to. I'd treated her before for a culture result of ecoli, and the culture I ran two weeks ago showed her clean of ecoli but she still had flakes and a lot of scar tissue. I didn't think ecoli resulted [i]that [/i]kind of scarring since it doesn't feed on blood and destroy tissue like staph does. Guess we'll see if I can come up with a cure for a lactating cow, eh? lol. :? Right now I'm waiting on a test to see what her staph infection is succeptible to before I start treatment. J and L - how do you dry your cows off? some folks just completely cease milking them, others milk once a day for a few days to slow them down first, we've done it both ways. Not sure if I prefer one over the other. If the cow has a subclinical case of mastitis, once a day milking sure seems to make it flare up in a hurry. LOL. Maybe that's not a bad thing, because then you know it's there?? Yep I did mean intramammary by IMM...sorry if that wasn't clear. Yeast infections are something I'm aware can occur, but haven't encountered before. How do you treat them? I swapped a few bands around yesterday and then explained to boss what I was up to. Green band is now on the leg that's the same side as the quarter we don't milk. So if the band's on the right side...it's a right quarter. So far I don't have an identification for which quarter (rear or front), but we'll get there. But then on the other hand, what if you have a two quarter cow. And then let's say she's chronic in one quarter, and later there's an infection in the other quarter that we decide to treat. Well now, this cow might have two green bands on each leg, one black band (chronic), one red on each leg (treated)...we might as well pull out a piece of white tape and just start writing on it. :lol2: Also, J and L, when you use Polyflex, how do you mix it? We ordered in a bottle of Polyflex and I didn't realize it had to be reconstituted/rehydrated, whatever you call it. Looks like it can be mixed so as to provide 200, 250, or 400mg/mL. Any thoughts on what concentration works best? [/QUOTE]
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