Sucklers aborting

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dannewhouse

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Location

huddersfield

• Feb 13, 2021

• #1

Just had my second abortion.
1st was late Jan for march 15 onwards calving
2nd today
Any suggestions, I have found one ibr positive cow so I vaccinate now.
Is it worth having it tested?
Or am I likely to get an inconclusive result?

 

Last edited: Feb 13, 2021

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primmiemoo

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Location

Devon

• Feb 13, 2021

• #2

That sounds very disappointing. What was the test for, please?

 

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dannewhouse

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Location

huddersfield

• Feb 13, 2021

• #3

primmiemoo said:

That sounds very disappointing. What was the test for, please?

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Edited IBR found and vaccinated for

 

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primmiemoo

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Location

Devon

• Feb 13, 2021

• #4

dannewhouse said:

Edited IBR found and vaccinated for

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It's been a few years since there have been sucklers here, but I can't ever remember an abortion. So many extra diseases to deal with. Sorry to learn about IBR, and sorry to be unable to advise.

Others will, though.

 

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Werzle

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Location

Midlands

• Feb 13, 2021

• #5

dannewhouse said:

Just had my second abortion.
1st was late Jan for march 15 onwards calving
2nd today
Any suggestions, I have found one ibr positive cow so I vaccinate now.
Is it worth having it tested?
Or am I likely to get an inconclusive result?

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I wouldnt worry, are they fighting to feed or have you handled them lately ? . Time to worry is if you have half a dozen in a week

 

wr.

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Breconshire

• Feb 13, 2021

• #6

Test for BVD. We had big problems years ago with BVD. We've vaccinated for about 30 years which sorted a number of problems including abortions and fertility.

 

marco

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Location

tipperary, ireland

• Feb 13, 2021

• #7

Lost afew last year and did lots of tests, nothing came back positive.

We started giving the cows a seaweed based lick called calsea "Calsea Precalver Mineral Block 15kg" https://www.countrylife.ie/shop/product/Calsea-Precalver-Mineral-Block-15kg/9021943
And didn't loose any afterwards.
At the time I didn't know what to and decided to try these after being on a soil nutrition coarse and discussing it with farmers there. Give it a shot.

 

marco

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Location

tipperary, ireland

• Feb 13, 2021

• #8

We vaccinate for lepto and bvd here though.

 

M-J-G

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Location

Sunny Scotland (But I wasn't born here)

• Feb 13, 2021

• #9

Have you done any testing for Neospora?

 

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dannewhouse

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Location

huddersfield

• Feb 13, 2021

• #10

M-J-G said:

Have you done any testing for Neospora?

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No

 

super4

Member

Location

Dorset

• Feb 13, 2021

• #11

Once lost nearly 10% through abortions. It was lepto. After we vaccinated never had any more trouble.

 

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Gulli

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Feb 13, 2021

• #12

Test the next one, could be one of those things, could be something serious.
Had a Tb test recently?

 

milkloss

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Livestock Farmer

Location

East Sussex

• Feb 13, 2021

• #13

If you're prepared to blow the money then get all the aborted sent away for testing. The reason I say 'blow the money' is because the chances are they'll all come back inconclusive.

 

johnspeehs

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Location

Co Antrim

• Feb 13, 2021

• #14

Had 6 abort this year and neospora was the cause, bloody hateful as the vet said not to keep them as they will probably do it next year again

 

wellingtonfarmer

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Location

Herefordshire

• Feb 13, 2021

• #15

johnspeehs said:

Had 6 abort this year and neospora was the cause, bloody hateful as the vet said not to keep them as they will probably do it next year again

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I thought once they had aborted they wouldn’t suffer from neospora again but there daughters would

 

johnspeehs

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Location

Co Antrim

• Feb 13, 2021

• #16

wellingtonfarmer said:

I thought once they had aborted they wouldn’t suffer from neospora again but there daughters would

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That's interesting, they definitely said get rid, they did say not to keep daughters as well.

 

Sir loin

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Location

North Yorkshire

• Feb 13, 2021

• #17

Any abortions should be a mandatory vet test for brucellosis and so you get a free vet visit and only pay for further blood sampling and analysis of extra samples.

 

Yale

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Livestock Farmer

Location

North East Wales,upland farm,800-1300ft

• Feb 13, 2021

• #18

I hate it when you come across a foetus in the scraping passage between the cubicles.

Its one of the low points in keeping cattle.

 

Becs

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Location

Wiltshire

• Feb 14, 2021

• #19

We had a bad year with 6 out of 30 aborting last year. We vaccinate against bad and lepto. 3 out of the 6 came back as nerospora , the other 3 came back with nothing. We were told not to keep daughters of the positive nerospora cows and that there was a slightly higher risk of positive cows aborting again. I made some pretty evil posters that I put on all the footpaths telling people to pick up their dog sh!t - I don’t know if it did any good but it made me feel better! It’s a bad thing when you dread going to check the calving shed . This year, touch wood, 100% better.

 

Forever Fendt

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Location

Derbyshire

• Feb 14, 2021

• #20

dannewhouse said:

Just had my second abortion.
1st was late Jan for march 15 onwards calving
2nd today
Any suggestions, I have found one ibr positive cow so I vaccinate now.
Is it worth having it tested?
Or am I likely to get an inconclusive result?

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I would think the number of cows is an important factor if you have 10 it’s a problem if you have 300 maybe not such a problem had a couple over the years here at 5/7 months but nothing after these and both got in calf again