Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Health & Nutrition
Woody tongue
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Keren" data-source="post: 640726" data-attributes="member: 3195"><p>Dun, my one and only experience with wooden tongue was a 14ish month old angus heifer. I fed up (she was in the show complex) and left the property friday evening, everything was normal, she ate her feed no problems. Popped in on sunday morning on my way to a show, just to grab something, and she was in the yards and I just about died. I couldnt believe it was the same animal. She would have been a BCS 6.5 on Friday and was a 1 on Sunday. I absolutely swear I kid you not that is how rapid it was, and I was just in shock that she had lost soooo much weight, she was near dead. Her tongue was hanging out of her mouth and slobber everywhere, so I kinda got a heads up with what was wrong. I got her up in the crush and had a look, and sure enough wooden tongue 'lesions' I guess you would call them, were on the underside of the tongue and so large that she physically couldnt pull her tongue back into her mouth. She physically couldnt eat and was just getting barely enough water. </p><p></p><p>We pulled her through that bout and she was good as gold until about 5 mths later, she got it again. She was euthanased, she was no longer in my care for show preparation so I dont know whether the guy tried to treat her but it didnt work, or whether he shot her straight away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keren, post: 640726, member: 3195"] Dun, my one and only experience with wooden tongue was a 14ish month old angus heifer. I fed up (she was in the show complex) and left the property friday evening, everything was normal, she ate her feed no problems. Popped in on sunday morning on my way to a show, just to grab something, and she was in the yards and I just about died. I couldnt believe it was the same animal. She would have been a BCS 6.5 on Friday and was a 1 on Sunday. I absolutely swear I kid you not that is how rapid it was, and I was just in shock that she had lost soooo much weight, she was near dead. Her tongue was hanging out of her mouth and slobber everywhere, so I kinda got a heads up with what was wrong. I got her up in the crush and had a look, and sure enough wooden tongue 'lesions' I guess you would call them, were on the underside of the tongue and so large that she physically couldnt pull her tongue back into her mouth. She physically couldnt eat and was just getting barely enough water. We pulled her through that bout and she was good as gold until about 5 mths later, she got it again. She was euthanased, she was no longer in my care for show preparation so I dont know whether the guy tried to treat her but it didnt work, or whether he shot her straight away. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Health & Nutrition
Woody tongue
Top