Whoa!!

[*Cowgirl*]

All right. One of our best cows has had mastitis. We waited until weaning her calf to treat it so we did and it was getting much better. We weaned him and sold him last weekend. I was gone this week and low and behold she's got a calf. She's always been fat so we didn't realize that she was so close to calving Her other calf was born on August 30 '05. THe ONLY time she could have been bred was Sept 26-30 when the bull got out. She's not milking much. And the teat in the mastitis quarter has split. What's goin on?

 

[WORANCH]

All right. One of our best cows has had mastitis. We waited until weaning her calf to treat it so we did and it was getting much better. We weaned him and sold him last weekend. I was gone this week and low and behold she's got a calf. She's always been fat so we didn't realize that she was so close to calving Her other calf was born on August 30 '05. THe ONLY time she could have been bred was Sept 26-30 when the bull got out. She's not milking much. And the teat in the mastitis quarter has split. What's goin on?

Poor management that's what's going on ..You should treat mastitis as soon as you find it .

Why didn't you wean the calf before 11 mo?


And no she 's not going to give much milk with mastitis so bad that her teat has split .

My guess is the bull got out because the cow was in heat.

 

[*Cowgirl*]

We didn't realize it was mastitis until recently. We thought that the calf was one sided or something. And the she was on "the back 40" and there was nothing we could do about it. Treating mastitis isn't something that you can walk up to a cow in the field and do.

Why didn't we wean, it's not worth the gas to the sale barn when there is only one that didn't come up. At one point he was a bull prospect so we didn't take him with the earlier load.

As we were looking through records this afternoon, we realized that the young bull that we were feeding was up at the time of supposed conception and he was much more able to slip through fences. So I guess we have the guilty father.
Case Solved.

Do we treat the mastitis again? It was much better until she calved again and now it's split.

 

[Caustic Burno]

As bad as that bag sounds blown its hamburger time.
Second what kinda of fences do you have a bull, cow,of breeding age slip through? On the ground?

 

[*Cowgirl*]

It's an old farm and we've got it all:
Woven wire, 3&4&5 strand barb, 2&5 electric. He probably went under the 2 strand electric, got a nasty shock, but, oh what bullls will do for an in heat cow...

 

[Chris H]

Check the withdrawal period on your medication you used to treat the mastitis, put the calf on milk replacer and ship the cow after the withdrawal period.
We've had cows calve 7-8 weeks before their previous calves one year birth date.