What do you think this is?

[TexasJerseyMilker]

This is my old pet cow. A few weeks ago I noticed the area over her hooks was swollen on both sides. I found a place where they had made a cattle trail between two closely growing trees and figured she's been bumping those. I blocked this trail off, but the swelling has still not subsided in two or three weeks. They are soft swellings and it does not seem painful to her when I mash it. That on the right hook is an old scar.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

Well what do you think it is Travlr ?

 

[Brute 23]

Poke it. Feel around on it and see if it feels like fluid or meat.

 

[ClinchValley86]

Rub on something and got a foreign object in there?

Looks like the peak has maybe been open before.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

But how would she get a foreign object in both hips at the same time? That is an old scar many years old with a shadow on it. I will get another picture

I can't tell if it's fluid or meat. If it's fluid and you push it, it should rise in a nearby area. This feels more like fat but it is totally abnormal. Maybe I should push a needle into it, see if I get fluid.

 

[Travlr]

Well what do you think it is Travlr ?

No idea... I've seen cancer in that area but it was well advanced and not on both sides. Maybe the tight spot between the trees has something to do with it but without anything similar on other cows it makes that idea less likely. Hopefully someone has some experience with this kind of thing to help you out.

If you're going to lance it do it at the bottom so it will drain.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

My other cow is a slender first calf heifer. Daphne is old, fat and slow. Maybe she banged the periosteum of her hip bones on those tree trunks. They had been using that trail for quite a while but seems like it should get well by now..

 

[wbvs58]

That one on her left side looks like she is going to have a bit of hide slough off there soon.

Ken

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

How come wbvs58? Is there anything I can do?

I'm a retired nurse, Travlr. This is a 12 year old pet cow, my first Jersey. She might be bred sex selected Jers for a heifer, hasn't come back into heat since (If you read my one cow dairy and the attack of the lawn chair) I can preg test her in August.

 

[4hfarms]

Saw this one time on a thin cow on the pelvic and hip , so I thought I may just throw it out there...

Is it possible, that it was rubbed raw from tree, .......or what ever, and it had been infected by feces on the tail?

 

[wbvs58]

How come wbvs58? Is there anything I can do?

I'm a retired nurse, Travlr. This is a 12 year old pet cow, my first Jersey. She might be bred sex selected Jers for a heifer, hasn't come back into heat since (If you read my one cow dairy and the attack of the lawn chair) I can preg test her in August.

Is the area inside the circle hard when you tap it? Just from the photo it looks like skin that is necrotic, hair starting to stand up a bit.

Ken

 

[ClinchValley86]

But how would she get a foreign object in both hips at the same time? That is an old scar many years old with a shadow on it. I will get another picture

I can't tell if it's fluid or meat. If it's fluid and you push it, it should rise in a nearby area. This feels more like fat but it is totally abnormal. Maybe I should push a needle into it, see if I get fluid.

Just now realized it was on both sides.

 

[Brute 23]

Just now realized it was on both sides.

Same here. Didn't realize that at first.

 

[bird dog]

I bought a old one and done one time that abcessed up like that about a week after I got her home. Identical bulges on both sides. I had a vet neighbor at that time and I ask him about her. He said he had seen it a couple times and it was most likely them getting banged around in a chute or forced through a narrow alleyway.

The cow was flighty but I got them drained only for them to swell back up. I left her alone after that and they eventually busted on their own.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

The hair standing up area is not hard, it is soft.

Birddog that is very useful. That is also what my cowboy husband thinks, they are abcesses from catching her hooks on those trees. He said sometimes his cow or calf got a bad subcutaneous shot and the area abcessed. He treated and flushed it if they were caught up, sometimes he didn't. He says the lump swelled up again, drained and healed on it's own if he did anything to it or not