CKC1586
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Please update us when your vet completes his tests....
Putangitangi":3eaga243 said:Because we shot her in the head, I didn't think there would be much point in cutting it open to get brain samples, but in retrospect that would have been a good idea, if I'd also had some formalin on hand. A test on brain tissue might have confirmed Thiamine deficiency. After rejecting the idea of lead, I've said yes to testing for it, since it would be stupid not to eliminate it. I haven't lived here forever; who knows what there might be around the paddocks which I've never noticed?
Duoject? B1 & 12?
I will supplement Mg for the next few days, just in case. But the violence and duration of the seizure was extreme and I'd have expected (wouldn't I?) to have seen some sort of indication of something going a bit wrong beforehand? The weird behavior 20 days before with complete recovery afterwards does suggest something more particular to this animal. These are relatively well-fed, quietly farmed animals in good health and if something is awry, it's usually pretty easy to spot a change in behavior.
Whatever, if she'd survived, it would only have been for salvage and I'd have spent the next few weeks wondering if it was going to happen again. That's no way to live, I know from a year's experience with the grand-mother favorite cow!