Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

straight

Mooooo wrote: »

Did the vet put back a magnet?

No.

Tonynewholland

straight wrote: »

I've a cow that has stopped eating about 4 days ago and milk has obviously fallen away to barely anything. She is picking tiny bits and passing small bits of dung but no appetite. Vet said it's a digestive upset. Pumped her stomach and left bovistim sachets for her but no change. Would ye have any ideas? She doesn't look empty for a cow that hasn't eaten in 4 days. No temperature

Did your vet rule out a displacement

Buford T. Justice XIX

Tonynewholland wrote: »

Did your vet rule out a displacement

That was my thought as well.

atlantic mist

find coffee great for upset digestion and dose for fluke

straight

Tonynewholland wrote: »

Did your vet rule out a displacement

Funny time of year for that but like it alright. He said stomachs are working but slowly. He listened to the heart too.

Tonynewholland

straight wrote: »

Funny time of year for that but like it alright. He said stomachs are working but slowly. He listened to the heart too.

They can get it anytime

whelan2

Is it long since she was scanned?

straight

atlantic mist wrote: »

find coffee great for upset digestion and dose for fluke

I was thinking that during milking. I'll give her a bottle of colombias finest coffee in the morning and a shot of eprinex along the back. Stomach worms were high in my herd health report alright but I didn't take any notice. I'll call the vet back next week if no improvement.

straight

whelan2 wrote: »

Is it long since she was scanned?

Not scanned yet. Afraid of dead calf and poisoning but she would have a fever surely. Can see no symptoms apart from lack of appetite and lack of milk.

whelan2

straight wrote: »

Not scanned yet. Afraid of dead calf and poisoning but she would have a fever surely. Can see no symptoms apart from lack of appetite and lack of milk.

If vet handled her they might have noticed something

GrasstoMilk

Dud she get an injection?
I had one a couple of weeks ago like that, injection sorted her. Milking the finest since

straight

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Dud she get an injection?
I had one a couple of weeks ago like that, injection sorted her. Milking the finest since

Just got b vitamin injection. I know if I call the vet back he'll just fill her up with antibiotics which is fine if it fixes her.

einn32

straight wrote: »

Just got b vitamin injection. I know if I call the vet back he'll just fill her up with antibiotics which is fine if it fixes her.

Did the vet definitely rule out a foreign object in the stomach?

straight

einn32 wrote: »

Did the vet definitely rule out a foreign object in the stomach?

Digestive problem he said. Would listening to the heart rule that out. I believe the foreign object comes through the wall of the rumen and pierces the heart

whelan2

If you look at the vein in her neck , if it's pulsing quickly her heart is under pressure. Could be one of many things wrong with her

jaymla627

So gain feeds are after having a batch of equine feed show up containing banned growth hormones for beef cattle, it's pretty dumb founding , going to be some compensation claims incoming, do the plc still own this side of the business our will the co-op take the biggest hit

whelan2

jaymla627 wrote: »

So gain feeds are after having a batch of equine feed show up containing banned growth hormones for beef cattle, it's pretty dumb founding , going to be some compensation claims incoming, do the plc still own this side of the business our will the co-op take the biggest hit

A major fook up

tanko

Why would Glanbia have banned substances in their possession in the first place?

jaymla627

tanko wrote: »

Why would Glanbia have banned substances in their possession in the first place?

It makes no sense, looking up the company that makes it, which is intervet and has manufacturing sites in Ireland I thought maybe their was a mess-up and it was sent to a the mill mistakenly as some other product, but it's made in France so that rules out that, it's a nasty product reading up on it, and can lead to serious health issues for cattle and horses alike re destroying hoof health and causing laminitits, was banned in America for awhile back in 2013 when a few hundred cattle been fed the product hooves fell off

Buford T. Justice XIX

jaymla627 wrote: »

It makes no sense, looking up the company that makes it, which is intervet and has manufacturing sites in Ireland I thought maybe their was a mess-up and it was sent to a the mill mistakenly as some other product, but it's made in France so that rules out that, it's a nasty product reading up on it, and can lead to serious health issues for cattle and horses alike re destroying hoof health and causing laminitits, was banned in America for awhile back in 2013 when a few hundred cattle been fed the product hooves fell off

We'll have to wait for the results of ingredient testing and batch samples kept for exactly this purpose to be tested to find where in the production and delivery chain this product was added.

Seeing as they don't use this product in any feed formulations, the risk of accidental contamination seems remote.

jaymla627

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

We'll have to wait for the results of ingredient testing and batch samples kept for exactly this purpose to be tested to find where in the production and delivery chain this product was added.

Seeing as they don't use this product in any feed formulations, the risk of accidental contamination seems remote.

Irish samples have been found to contain the product now so they are goosed to put it lightly, cant see the likes of coolmore and the other high end studs contemplating using gain feed again, even farmers should be wary on the livestock side of it with the crap they do be putting into rations

Timmaay

jaymla627 wrote: »

Irish samples have been found to contain the product now so they are goosed to put it lightly, cant see the likes of coolmore and the other high end studs contemplating using gain feed again, even farmers should be wary on the livestock side of it with the crap they do be putting into rations

I wounder what the Glanbia share price will be tomorrow morning.

awaywithyou

jaymla627 wrote: »

It makes no sense, looking up the company that makes it, which is intervet and has manufacturing sites in Ireland I thought maybe their was a mess-up and it was sent to a the mill mistakenly as some other product, but it's made in France so that rules out that, it's a nasty product reading up on it, and can lead to serious health issues for cattle and horses alike re destroying hoof health and causing laminitits, was banned in America for awhile back in 2013 when a few hundred cattle been fed the product hooves fell off

Why are Intervet making a banned nasty substance that causes cattle’s hooves to fall off????

Tonynewholland

awaywithyou wrote: »

Why are Intervet making a banned nasty substance that causes cattle’s hooves to fall off????

It’s probably still used legally in beef in other parts of the world.

Grueller

awaywithyou wrote: »

Why are Intervet making a banned nasty substance that causes cattle’s hooves to fall off????

I dont know but it would sicken you to the pit of your stomach

charolais0153

awaywithyou wrote: »

Why are Intervet making a banned nasty substance that causes cattle’s hooves to fall off????

Could have been overdosed or what not

Water John

And what would Glanbia have done if it had been mixed in dairy feed and affected their own production? One really wonders at this type of integrated food chain.
Stuff like this shouldn't be made or stored in the same location as stuff for markets that don't allow it, EU Regs if necessary.

straight

I heard on the news the greens saying they are going to help the farmers by reducing the national herd. Farmers don't make money at the moment so it won't cost them anything she said. She's going to incentivise and retrain us to grow grains and the like. I'm all for it myself as I went miss getting **** and pissed on at 6 in the morning and dealing with the whole animal side of things. I might take up golf with all my spare time. I would have thought tillage was more harmful to what I'm at now but what would I know.

tismesoitis

Going to be big compo paid out. Aidan O Brein pulled 4 horses out of the prix de l'arc today over feed concerns!

Tonynewholland

straight wrote: »

I heard on the news the greens saying they are going to help the farmers by reducing the national herd. Farmers don't make money at the moment so it won't cost them anything she said. She's going to incentivise and retrain us to grow grains and the like. I'm all for it myself as I went miss getting **** and pissed on at 6 in the morning and dealing with the whole animal side of things. I might take up golf with all my spare time. I would have thought tillage was more harmful to what I'm at now but what would I know.

Are we to harvest these grains or what’s the plan