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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 886601" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Had a first-calf heifer, last winter, with TRP - starting out, I thought she was just lame on a front leg, but it got worse fairly quickly - walking slow and hunched up, 'crossing over' with her front legs as she walked, keeping her elbows out. A magnet and a big dose of LA-200, and she improved pretty quickly.</p><p>Had another cow this week, that started moving slow, hunched up, with head down - last one in to eat two days in a row - gave her a magnet on Friday morning. She's now standing right - no longer hunched up - but still walking slow and a little hunched. May take a few days for things to 'cool off', if the wire/nail had penetrated the reticulum and set up some local peritonitis.</p><p>I haven't committed to putting magnets in every cow, but the hardware's almost GOT to be coming in in the hay we buy - the only wire on this place is the HT fences we've erected since we bought this piece of property 18 years ago. The wife is a fanatic about not leaving any scrap of wire or nail lying around for fear of a hayburner stepping on it.</p><p></p><p>I see cows through the necropsy lab all the time that have old adhesions between the reticulum, diaphragm, and liver - indicating that they've had a previous bout of TRP - but those are incidental findings, and the offending wire/nail are long gone. Probably see a full-blown case of 'hardware disease', where the wire has penetrated all the way into the pericardial sac, resulting in constrictive pericarditis and heart failure, maybe once or twice a year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 886601, member: 12607"] Had a first-calf heifer, last winter, with TRP - starting out, I thought she was just lame on a front leg, but it got worse fairly quickly - walking slow and hunched up, 'crossing over' with her front legs as she walked, keeping her elbows out. A magnet and a big dose of LA-200, and she improved pretty quickly. Had another cow this week, that started moving slow, hunched up, with head down - last one in to eat two days in a row - gave her a magnet on Friday morning. She's now standing right - no longer hunched up - but still walking slow and a little hunched. May take a few days for things to 'cool off', if the wire/nail had penetrated the reticulum and set up some local peritonitis. I haven't committed to putting magnets in every cow, but the hardware's almost GOT to be coming in in the hay we buy - the only wire on this place is the HT fences we've erected since we bought this piece of property 18 years ago. The wife is a fanatic about not leaving any scrap of wire or nail lying around for fear of a hayburner stepping on it. I see cows through the necropsy lab all the time that have old adhesions between the reticulum, diaphragm, and liver - indicating that they've had a previous bout of TRP - but those are incidental findings, and the offending wire/nail are long gone. Probably see a full-blown case of 'hardware disease', where the wire has penetrated all the way into the pericardial sac, resulting in constrictive pericarditis and heart failure, maybe once or twice a year. [/QUOTE]
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