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ranch pictures 5-20-2014

jodywy

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one of Sue cows , there was a few late calves in that bunch she bought. Our 4th set of twins this spring.

I hate seeing a calf get a infection from it navel , seems after antibiotic shots and the joints bust open the calf dies anyway, so Like tagging it seems worth the effort to get the navel iodine.
Hip boots because I went and put 4 diversion in to get the irrigation water going down ditches.
 
I hate Navel Ill too, Jody, with a passion.

We have found the only way to treat it and have success is to give
10cc penicillin (not long-lasting) for 5 days, then 5 cc for 5 days.
10 days of doctoring. :cry: Then some probiotic on the last day.
But it does save them. I think of all the times we treated them, but were
not aggressive enough and they got really sore and died anyway.
We found out the reason
the joints swell is that the circulation there isn't good and it's a safe
place for the bacteria to go. You have to be really, really aggressive to
kill the bacteria.

Iodining the navel is a good preventative. So is a good immune system.

That looks like a nice cow. :D
 
LA twice and putting 2-5 cc iodine into the abcess through the naval clears most of them up fast if you catch them early enough.

Nice cow and good strong twins Jody. Will she milk well enough to raise them both?
 
gcreekrch said:
LA twice and putting 2-5 cc iodine into the abcess through the naval clears most of them up fast if you catch them early enough.

Nice cow and good strong twins Jody. Will she milk well enough to raise them both?
hope so, got 6 bum lambs, got one ewe with triplets hoping she can feed them , don't need a bum calf
 
gcreekrch said:
LA twice and putting 2-5 cc iodine into the abcess through the naval clears most of them up fast if you catch them early enough.

Nice cow and good strong twins Jody. Will she milk well enough to raise them both?

We just never caught them early enough. The joints were swollen and sore
by the time we noticed anything was wrong. It was dreadful.
I hate navel ill. We doctored one
calf so many times (only not in succession) that I thought when she sucked
the cow the milk would come out all the holes we poked in her. She didn't make it and she was out of my favorite cow. :cry:

After we got their immune system up to par, I think we only had 2 or 3 in
20 years and we saved all of them with the 10-day protocol.
 

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