Have suckler cow calved 6 days no issues.went out last night an she wouldn't get up.same this morning. Got vet out said was e.coli mastitis. Not eating very much.am injecting her for next couple days.hard to no how she will fair.any ideas anything I can give to give here a good pick me up.turned her this evening
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mixed fleet
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What age is the cow.
Is there pressure on her udder.
kverneland es 80
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That cow needs fluids pumped in .vet shoild hsve done it
Had a very good vet here years ago pumped water with some powder mixed in straight into the vein to dilute the poison in the blood. Worked very well. Never seen it done before or since.
There's boluses you get to give for mastitis. Would be no harm.
https://countryfarmsupplies.com/pro...id=c7c2e915b&pr_rec_pid=8455127990615&pr_ref_Ivy no harm either to get some interest in eating back. Country farm supplies sell Humates for stock. That would soak up the poison in her system. But it would also soak up antibiotics. So it'd be solely a personal call.
There's boluses you get to give for mastitis. Would be no harm.
https://countryfarmsupplies.com/pro...id=c7c2e915b&pr_rec_pid=8455127990615&pr_ref_Ivy no harm either to get some interest in eating back. Country farm supplies sell Humates for stock. That would soak up the poison in her system. But it would also soak up antibiotics. So it'd be solely a personal call.
Ozzy Scott
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Along with antibiotic and metacam
Did the vet put any cal mag in the vein?
She seems alert enough just hasn't great appetite
She could have milk fever
massey 6480
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If he put cal mag in the vein she’d be dead in 2 minutes or less . Cal mag strictly under the skin . Do you mean calcium that can and should be given in the vein .
Calmag ok in the vein. It's magnesium on It's own is fatal in the vein if given too much
Paw
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I’ve put many bottles of cal mag in the vein. Being in a low mag area it was all we ever used (just as an insurance)
mixed fleet
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I'd be giving her electrolytes, and I would give her a bottle of calcium.
Keep strugging out the quarter and bathe it if it gets hot.
I wouldn't try to get her up, she will have to do that herself.
Keep strugging out the quarter and bathe it if it gets hot.
I wouldn't try to get her up, she will have to do that herself.
Surelookit
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You might have the same vets as us so P mc M in Galway, what it was was cooled boiled water mixed with a electrolyte powder the same as you'd give a calf and pumped into the vein. He put in 3 or so litres of the mixture in and it saved her really I'd say
Surelookit
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Paw
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I’m more than 20 years away from cows now. Did occasionally put 20mm of straight mag into a 100mm bottle of straight calcium. Didn’t know they stopped doing calmag
This was a Cork vet working in a wexford practice. He's gone now for a few years. The boiled water and electrolyte is ringing bells now alright.
My father and myself were amazed at him doing it. This vet was always a league ahead of any that ever called here.
One we had was on her last legs and very weak and straight away it picked her up.
Vets since it'd be pumping down the throat.
Paw
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