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trouble runs in packs

kwebb

Well-known member
I have a real thick, good calf that has too much underline to keep in my registered herd.

The other day I got to looking at her navel and it looked like she had rubbed it or maybe it was a little infected or something. I put her in the chute to check it and it was just some white hair right around the navel--nothing to worry with.

But, in feeling around, I felt an umbilical hernia. Nothing hanging out of it--just a hole where you can feel the guts move away when you press up on it.

The vet says he can fix it for $120...and that it is too large to close on its own. This calf is still too young to sell. I am thinking I will fix it and grow her to 600# and then to the butcher.

My question is that I thought that this condition was hereditary. Why have the other calves of this cow not had it? Or does it come from the bull? Any experience with this out there?
 

coulee

Member
I talked to a couple of dairy folks about hernia's a while ago. They told me that most of them close up on their own. I don't have any personal experience, so take my comments with a grain of salt, but I would sure get a second opion from a vet or dairy farmer that has seen a lot of these bofore you cut on her.
 
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Anonymous

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coulee said:
I talked to a couple of dairy folks about hernia's a while ago. They told me that most of them close up on their own. I don't have any personal experience, so take my comments with a grain of salt, but I would sure get a second opion from a vet or dairy farmer that has seen a lot of these bofore you cut on her.

A lot of time on colts they will close on their own.....If they haven't by the time I wean them then I'll let the vet fix them...
 
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