Advice and/or tips

[Bill the Bass]

Had a cow to c-section on Monday night, all well but obviously cow needs a course of pen strep but she has turned very nasty to the point I can’t even get her in a crush and am obviously bothered not to damage her wound by hassling her too much. Has anyone any advice on how I can get her injected? We have a good handling set up but I can’t even move her round her pen that well.

Helpful thoughts of a led injection not welcomed!

 

[JSmith]

You can get powdered antibiotics for horses to mix in with food, can you get them for cattle?? I don’t know but might be worth asking the vet?!! Don’t get killed trying to mess with a dangerous fecker

 

[serf]

 

[Bill the Bass]

I have tried one of them many years ago, I thought it fired the drug in far too fast for my liking....

 

[Johngee]

We’ve got a masterject which works pretty well. Obviously you’d have to be in the pen with her.

 

[Uggman]

If you got a lasso or a rope get it on her neck she and tie to a rsj or a tractor she will go down eventually then get in there quick inject her stand on her neck so you can get the rope off and get out again probably won't improve her mood but you can kill her as soon as you weaned the calf and get her fat. Get them fat they get lazy!

 

[Bill the Bass]

We’ve got a masterject which works pretty well. Obviously you’d have to be in the pen with her.

I reckon I could outside of the pen, she isn’t psycho mental, just big and very protective, I am really concerned about hassling her post operation.

 

[Bill the Bass]

If you got a lasso or a rope get it on her neck she and tie to a rsj or a tractor she will go down eventually then get in there quick inject her stand on her neck so you can get the rope off and get out again probably won't improve her mood but you can kill her as soon as you weaned the calf and get her fat. Get them fat they get lazy!

I have thought about lassoing her, pulling her in to the edge of the pen and jabbing her. But wouldn’t want her to go down.

 

[Johngee]

I reckon I could outside of the pen, she isn’t psycho mental, just big and very protective, I am really concerned about hassling her post operation.

The only cow we’ve had a caesar in recent years also went a bit funny a day or two afterwards. In fact she broke my ribs. I reckon it was the shock from the whole experience. Anyway she calmed down within a few days.

 

[Uggman]

Fair enough you might be able to pull to the side so you get inject her stay safe though.

 

[Bill the Bass]

The only cow we’ve had a caesar in recent years also went a bit funny a day or two afterwards. In fact she broke my ribs. I reckon it was the shock from the whole experience. Anyway she calmed down within a few days.

We have had three this year - not limousins, a different breed and not really the breeds fault to be fair, two from cows that failed to carry a calf last summer and one coming backwards (51 limousins calved so far, four assists; two back wards and one uterine twist and one abnormally big calf from an outcross heifer) One cow was an absolute darling, the second was ‘bossable’ but this one is big, powerful, young and very ‘aware’.

Fair enough you might be able to pull to the side so you get inject her stay safe though.

To be perfectly honest, the amount of fall outs I have had this last year with parents and my other half, I think the world would be a better place if she did for me. Sorry that’s really self indulgent, I’m just a bit fed up at the minute.

 

[milkloss]

use long acting penicillin. We had one that was a bit booloo. Had to strap her to a gate (which is actually a cattle grid bought at auction) and we only just managed to catch her guts before they hit the ground half way through. Vet used pen&strep but we never gave her another jab despite puss squirting out the wound as she ran but still survived to see the market when the calf was weaned.

 

[M-J-G]

Put a halter one her and leave it on, use a crook to get it each day.

 

[abitdaft]

If you have a decent handling can you not funnel her into a tight enough space to jag her? A wee bit of thought and a few strategic ropes to pull a gate behind in addition to a bit of grub can work wonders compared to force.

 

[abitdaft]

If you have a decent handling can you not funnel her into a tight enough space to jag her? A wee bit of thought and a few strategic ropes to pull a gate behind in addition to a bit of grub can work wonders compared to force.

Having said that we have the vet out tomorrow and have to get bull in the crush, bet it turns out car crash TV

 

[Sir loin]

I had a cow with a torsion 6 weeks ago never seen a cow in so much pain in my life she was upside down 4 legs in the air, rolling side to side. Got her to the crush put my hand up to see what was wrong, hand right up to the shoulder could feel nothing no feet head nothing rang vet and it turned out she had a very rare torsion the other side of the cervix. To cut a long story short C Section calf ok but the cow turned very nasty . A week later when she settled I went in to tag the calf and the bloody tagger got stuck to the tag in the calves ear. It ran back to mum I went to rescue my tagger and she kicked me on the side of my knee fracturing my tibia plateau so have been layed up for what seems like an eternity and it looks like I 've a long way to go yet.

 

[Uggman]

We have had three this year - not limousins, a different breed and not really the breeds fault to be fair, two from cows that failed to carry a calf last summer and one coming backwards (51 limousins calved so far, four assists; two back wards and one uterine twist and one abnormally big calf from an outcross heifer) One cow was an absolute darling, the second was ‘bossable’ but this one is big, powerful, young and very ‘aware’.



To be perfectly honest, the amount of fall outs I have had this last year with parents and my other half, I think the world would be a better place if she did for me. Sorry that’s really self indulgent, I’m just a bit fed up at the minute.

Sorry too hear that bill the bass but it's never that bad I know that it might seem everyone is against you or getting on at each other but I sure that they all love you very much and each other just think if it was the other way around you wouldn't want too lose them sorry for being a bit soft but it's true

 

[milkloss]

Sometimes you have to be an adrenaline Junkie with cattle. They can do some damage when things go wrong though.

Do your best for them but don't put yourself in harms way......... I'd rather get the .308 out then get messed up. Never works that way though, you just struggle on.

 

[shearerlad]

Do you have one of those calving gates?

I find them great for cows that need follow up injections and get wary of the crush. Feed and water her through the yoke and set it to lock when you need to jag her

 

[Bill the Bass]

Got her jabbed this morning, easy enough in the end by putting an extra hurdle in the pen to part the calf and tighten her up as per @abitdaft ’s advice. It helped just being on my own, kept it quiet and no gobshites with blue sticks.