What's worse to have for lunch, two WW English Toffee Crunches, or two gin and tonics?
I'm trying to ease the pain of this, the worst recession since the depression, which includes massive, I repeat, MASSIVE, job losses, not to mention unparalleled damage to "the environment".
I'm thinking of "going green". Did you know that plastic bags are made from "fossil fuels"?
We should "listen to the children." They will show us the way.
One more thing. The cows get appraised at 1400. Two cows I really really like, in multiple ways, are YoYo and Blossom. Both are the kind of cow that you'd like to breed from. Hard working, but put together in such a way as to last a long time. On Monday, YoYo came down with nervous ketosis. So many ketones in her blood that she had neurological symptoms (ataxia, to start). And Blossom came down with indigestion (rumen acidosis?). What the hell? ANY other two cows would have been OK. Why these two? Intelligent Design?
She got dextrose IV and dexamethasone IM (cures nearly everything!) and the acute symptoms disappeared. But she's not right. I had the vet here for her yesterday and he said she had "rumenitis". Well, I don't know. She's subpar. She looked glorious on Sunday, and even though she's not quite right, she was scored 91 points today. She eats, but slowly. She gets around, but slowly. when we put the cows in this PM, Mocha, the bitch, and her stallmate, beat her out of her stall before I got them clipped, and Yoyo fell into the gutter and wouldn't get up. The ketosis is gone, but something else is holding her back, and I'm not at all sure that it is "rumenitis".
Did the vet say anything about propylene glycol, PO? It's possible that it's spontaneous ketosis brought on by high production (how long is she fresh?), or secondary to something else (most common: LDA, metritis, mastitis - or anything else that makes them stop eating, so rumenitis is a possibility in that regard).
I dunno, it might be that the glucose got her out of the CNS signs but she's still got some ongoing ketosis. Glucose is pretty temporary. Proprionate would be longer lasting.
But that's all probably pretty useless stuff, cause i bet you know it all already and the vet was already there.
Propylene Glycol is a standard treatment for typical ketosis. The drawback to it is you have to drench the cow, which I hate because it means new bruises. Also, you don't want to drench a cow with neuro symptoms as you have the risk of aspiration.
Good point about the rumenitis coming first. Not sure I know what would cause "rumenitis" and why it would hang around so long. She was about a month fresh and was really cranking, a little too thin, and her neighbors are pigs who steal her grain. Also, they were getting used to pasture, which is still too scanty. It is a common time of year for ketosis here. OTOH, I'm feeding Rumensin which is supposed to control ketosis.
Glucose is good for only a few hours, but dexamethasone gives you a couple days. Read the label insert on a bottle. It does wonderful things. In any event, her ketosis is gone. Had the glucose and Dexa not done it, I'd have used propylene glycol.
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What's worse to have for lunch, two WW English Toffee Crunches, or two gin and tonics?
I'm trying to ease the pain of this, the worst recession since the depression, which includes massive, I repeat, MASSIVE, job losses, not to mention unparalleled damage to "the environment".
I'm thinking of "going green". Did you know that plastic bags are made from "fossil fuels"?
We should "listen to the children." They will show us the way.
Peace. (Clothing optional.)
One more thing. The cows get appraised at 1400. Two cows I really really like, in multiple ways, are YoYo and Blossom. Both are the kind of cow that you'd like to breed from. Hard working, but put together in such a way as to last a long time. On Monday, YoYo came down with nervous ketosis. So many ketones in her blood that she had neurological symptoms (ataxia, to start). And Blossom came down with indigestion (rumen acidosis?). What the hell? ANY other two cows would have been OK. Why these two? Intelligent Design?
Neither cow is half the cow they were on Sunday.
This. Is farming.
Dad the youtube video isn't working. It says it's private?
I just learned about nervous ketosis!
Has she recovered?
Luke, try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEuNIUb3Ges
Caleb,
She got dextrose IV and dexamethasone IM (cures nearly everything!) and the acute symptoms disappeared. But she's not right. I had the vet here for her yesterday and he said she had "rumenitis". Well, I don't know. She's subpar. She looked glorious on Sunday, and even though she's not quite right, she was scored 91 points today. She eats, but slowly. She gets around, but slowly. when we put the cows in this PM, Mocha, the bitch, and her stallmate, beat her out of her stall before I got them clipped, and Yoyo fell into the gutter and wouldn't get up. The ketosis is gone, but something else is holding her back, and I'm not at all sure that it is "rumenitis".
Did the vet say anything about propylene glycol, PO? It's possible that it's spontaneous ketosis brought on by high production (how long is she fresh?), or secondary to something else (most common: LDA, metritis, mastitis - or anything else that makes them stop eating, so rumenitis is a possibility in that regard).
I dunno, it might be that the glucose got her out of the CNS signs but she's still got some ongoing ketosis. Glucose is pretty temporary. Proprionate would be longer lasting.
But that's all probably pretty useless stuff, cause i bet you know it all already and the vet was already there.
Propylene Glycol is a standard treatment for typical ketosis. The drawback to it is you have to drench the cow, which I hate because it means new bruises. Also, you don't want to drench a cow with neuro symptoms as you have the risk of aspiration.
Good point about the rumenitis coming first. Not sure I know what would cause "rumenitis" and why it would hang around so long. She was about a month fresh and was really cranking, a little too thin, and her neighbors are pigs who steal her grain. Also, they were getting used to pasture, which is still too scanty. It is a common time of year for ketosis here. OTOH, I'm feeding Rumensin which is supposed to control ketosis.
Glucose is good for only a few hours, but dexamethasone gives you a couple days. Read the label insert on a bottle. It does wonderful things. In any event, her ketosis is gone. Had the glucose and Dexa not done it, I'd have used propylene glycol.
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