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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1852794" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Glad things went a little better... You might want to get some cannulas.... they are hollow tubes that you can stick up the teats... use on the tiny back teats..maybe 2 inches or so long.... the milk will pour out since they are up past the sphincter muscle at the end of the teat... If you get the kind that are individually packaged in cellophane... you will not introduce bacteria into the canal if the end of the teat is clean. I use them on a beef cow that has large teats right after calving occasionally.... takes the pressure off and the teat is less engorged and often a calf can then get on the teat... Our farm bureau usually has them but they were available on Jeffers I think... usually come in a "roll" of 50 or 100... they look like the ends of the today mastitis tubes, and I have used them in an emergency, on occasion... </p><p>We used corral panels, as a "template" and then just made a panel that only went half way down the cow's side.. so under her belly was accessible... .. so it was 10 ft long.. extended past the length of the animal... but only "halfway" to the ground so to speak... yes they can kick some with that... but you also have room to get away that you don't if you are putting your arms through the bars of the panel. </p><p>The flank rope works most all the time...</p><p>She may not like the calf idea since she did not get a chance to "mother it"... and with some it will make them hold their milk... but on many older experienced cows, I found it worked like a charm... they were like "baby is safe, I can see, smell, lick it, I get to eat lots of grain...and the pressure is relieved... " </p><p>Hope the next couple get better and better... Funny how you just "expect" them to "act right" and how you are used to with an established cow... we all do it and get a rude awakening sometimes...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1852794, member: 25884"] Glad things went a little better... You might want to get some cannulas.... they are hollow tubes that you can stick up the teats... use on the tiny back teats..maybe 2 inches or so long.... the milk will pour out since they are up past the sphincter muscle at the end of the teat... If you get the kind that are individually packaged in cellophane... you will not introduce bacteria into the canal if the end of the teat is clean. I use them on a beef cow that has large teats right after calving occasionally.... takes the pressure off and the teat is less engorged and often a calf can then get on the teat... Our farm bureau usually has them but they were available on Jeffers I think... usually come in a "roll" of 50 or 100... they look like the ends of the today mastitis tubes, and I have used them in an emergency, on occasion... We used corral panels, as a "template" and then just made a panel that only went half way down the cow's side.. so under her belly was accessible... .. so it was 10 ft long.. extended past the length of the animal... but only "halfway" to the ground so to speak... yes they can kick some with that... but you also have room to get away that you don't if you are putting your arms through the bars of the panel. The flank rope works most all the time... She may not like the calf idea since she did not get a chance to "mother it"... and with some it will make them hold their milk... but on many older experienced cows, I found it worked like a charm... they were like "baby is safe, I can see, smell, lick it, I get to eat lots of grain...and the pressure is relieved... " Hope the next couple get better and better... Funny how you just "expect" them to "act right" and how you are used to with an established cow... we all do it and get a rude awakening sometimes... [/QUOTE]
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