Kentucky
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Hello!
We just found this site. The advice here seems great!
We have a growing cattle operation here in Kentucky, and we've been at it for 9 years. We had a calf up and die on us this weekend and I'd be grateful for any input you might have.
A 5 month charolais calf that we've had about 6 weeks (bought as cow and calf) died suddenly with no symptoms except that it had acted "lazy" for the previous 20-24 hours. It wanted to lay around alot, but we could always get it up. There were no other symptoms at all, no limping, no strange breathing, no nothing!
We got it up in the corral, took the temp (normal) and before we could do anything else it just fell and died. We have noticed that it never passed any manure after death....and it was mighty clean back there, like it hadn't gone in a while.
Any thoughts out there????
We just found this site. The advice here seems great!
We have a growing cattle operation here in Kentucky, and we've been at it for 9 years. We had a calf up and die on us this weekend and I'd be grateful for any input you might have.
A 5 month charolais calf that we've had about 6 weeks (bought as cow and calf) died suddenly with no symptoms except that it had acted "lazy" for the previous 20-24 hours. It wanted to lay around alot, but we could always get it up. There were no other symptoms at all, no limping, no strange breathing, no nothing!
We got it up in the corral, took the temp (normal) and before we could do anything else it just fell and died. We have noticed that it never passed any manure after death....and it was mighty clean back there, like it hadn't gone in a while.
Any thoughts out there????