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You didn't cut her open for a look? I can't bear not to know what caused a death in cases like that when you will often find a really obvious cause. I had one like yours and it turned out she had a necrotic bladder, possibly from trauma during a too-long delivery several weeks beforehand; or...

I had a 2012-born heifer we had to shoot at 20 months. She had some weird (presume genetic) abnormality where her feet, front and back, wouldn't stop growing. She became so slipper-footed that she had to kneel to eat. I kept hoping she'd come right and the guy with the gun was injured, so I...

Sounds just right for Neospora. Is that a possibility? They die at about that age if they're going to. Mine have all come out on their own. If you know the size, is it already out or still in there? Several of mine came out at due calving time, for some reason. Some came out at about seven...

You inevitably get swelling above a band and of course he's stiff and sore! Think about it!

Here we can get the meat-inspection vets at the abattoir to sample the livers on request via a form from my own vet, send them off to a lab for analysis. It's something routinely done for Copper, Selenium, B12 and presumably there are other tests one can have done. It costs me less than a...

I read some of the Coleby book and felt much the same about it. The copper suggestion came from a book written by a local author on organic approaches and I followed up with some of the local vets, always asking if any work had been done to see if there was real value in the assertion. My...

We've had Liver Fluke on our place for the two decades I've been farming here. Before we started treating, cows would go down in drains (mostly) and not have the strength to get up. They were also really low in copper. After twenty years of varying levels of treatment with Triclabendazole...

Did you lose track of your other thread? viewtopic.php?f=5&t=116538

396/1175 on the first pics 396/1280 on the second!

I've had a couple over the years, most recently last breeding season. I figured he'd easily hurt himself again if I let him and so he went to slaughter. I don't think it's worth the risk once there's a weakness in such an important bit of the animal's structure!

Someone always loses their voice in my lot. She'll get it back, don't worry.

I was hoping he might have come right by now.

Do you think he could have had some sort of seizure that helped him get into the stupid position? That might explain his state since rescue. I once found a much younger calf in a ridiculous place and it transpired that was what was wrong with him, so he'd got stuck in a corner he should never...

I had ringworm go through my closed herd a few years ago. I got to being able to spot those who were about to come out in white spots before they did so: they had raised patches like that. The hair fell out over the next few days.

Do any of you ever do post-drench FECs? We do that from time to time to check how resistant our worm populations may have become to the drench we're using. Do a FEC, drench, then pick up dung samples ten days after drenching; if there are eggs there, your drench didn't work. Culture the eggs...

You guys are scary. How do you know how heavy your cattle are? How can you possibly know that you're giving an effective dose if you just guess their weights? Same for antibiotics. No wonder the parasites and bacteria are getting the upper hand. Disclaimer: that's my off-the-cuff response...

How do you know how heavy they are for the correct dose? You haven't mentioned weighing.

I've been using Allflex for years and there are more cows without tags than wearing them. They're hopeless tags if you farm with trees and ticks. My cows itch their ears and the tags break. Fortunately I know my cows well enough that I still know 710 is that tagless black cow. The expense...

I was once in contact with a couple in Indonesia, one of whom was a vet - no nearby vet practices. She operated on a cow to remove something in the rumen that was blocking the exit to the rest of the system. You obviously want to save this cow, so maybe she's going to require a similar...

I've seen it mostly in young bulls and it's a pain. They'll sometimes stop their cows from grazing for hours. In a large paddock, I've watched little bulls running for most of a day, trying to corale cows who've gone further away than he wants them. Worrying that they'd wear themselves out...