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Author Topic: Amazing how quickly everything can go pear shaped.  (Read 8242 times)

TheCaptain

  • Joined May 2010
Re: Amazing how quickly everything can go pear shaped.
« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2012, 11:03:42 pm »
did the vet give you a pessary to insert into the udder? When we first got Betty she had a horrendous case of mastitis, those combined with apple cider vinegar and feeding the milk back to her cleared it up.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Amazing how quickly everything can go pear shaped.
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2012, 11:57:17 pm »
Feeling for you Dot  :bouquet:

I've heard that feeding the mastitic milk back to the cow can have a miraculous effect - stimulates her immune system against the specific bug.  Worth a try if conventional meds and treatments aren't working?
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VSS

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Pen Llyn
    • Viable Self Sufficiency.co.uk
Re: Amazing how quickly everything can go pear shaped.
« Reply #17 on: May 11, 2012, 04:06:15 pm »
She seems a bit brighter today and has started eating a bit.

I think the antibiotics have probably pushed the infections and toxins back to the seat of the infection. Udder is still a mess.
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VSS

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Pen Llyn
    • Viable Self Sufficiency.co.uk
Re: Amazing how quickly everything can go pear shaped.
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2012, 10:06:17 pm »
Well. she is better in herself. but her udder is knackered. We have turned her out with her calf (she should be giving us 5 gallons a day  :( ) and she will have to go once he is weaned.

Such a shame. :'(
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Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: Amazing how quickly everything can go pear shaped.
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2012, 10:16:26 pm »
So sorry to hear this  :bouquet: you could only but try your best, so sad it didn't work out well.   ((hugs))

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Amazing how quickly everything can go pear shaped.
« Reply #20 on: May 26, 2012, 09:02:06 am »
 :( :bouquet:

TheCaptain

  • Joined May 2010
Re: Amazing how quickly everything can go pear shaped.
« Reply #21 on: May 26, 2012, 03:05:59 pm »
That is rubbish - sorry to hear.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Amazing how quickly everything can go pear shaped.
« Reply #22 on: May 26, 2012, 04:50:12 pm »
So sorry you weren't able to save her udder  :bouquet:  But at least she is rearing her calf. {{{hugs}}}
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

sabrina

  • Joined Nov 2008
Re: Amazing how quickly everything can go pear shaped.
« Reply #23 on: May 30, 2012, 04:53:57 pm »
What a shame,

 

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