Cows coughing.

[Water Wheel]

Milked this morning and noticed a fair amount of coughing, perhaps 1 in 10, not severe but noticeable.
Is it a bad year for lungworm?
Will immunity have faded after the hot dry summer last year?
Or is it just a reinfection syndrome, cows reacting to a heavy larval challenge, but dealing with it?
Because of the coughing I'm pondering worming the milking herd, but don't want to worm unnecessarily and reduce the development of natural immunity.

 

[dinderleat]

Get some samples done and speak to your vets but sounds like they need doing.

 

[Fergieman]

Local vet lab sent out a warning to watch for lungworm earlier this week as they were finding alot of it in samples delivered in. Look out for the coughing ones and take a sample from them in the parlour with a vet glove and get the vet to examine them. Fairly easy to confirm if it is lungworm. If they have it and are coughing get them wormed asap. They will cough worse after worming for a few days.

 

[I thats it]

I've noticed exactly the same, 1 or 2in each side. Not bad but noticeable. Wormer ordered

 

[Princess Pooper]

our vets also said a couple of weeks ago it's a bad year for lungworm and several herds have been treated.

 

[Water Wheel]

Thanks for replies .
Pooled dung sample from 6 coughing cows taken in.

 

[The Grinch]

Had the same 10 days ago one or two coughing followed by a few more later In week plus they seemed to lose a bit of condition quite quickly.Had a word with vet who said it was ideal conditions this year so we wormed the lot. All seem a lot better now. Old chap says we never used to have to worm cows only youngstock

 

[Water Wheel]

Had the same 10 days ago one or two coughing followed by a few more later In week plus they seemed to lose a bit of condition quite quickly.Had a word with vet who said it was ideal conditions this year so we wormed the lot. All seem a lot better now. Old chap says we never used to have to worm cows only youngstock

So what has changed?
Did we ignore the coughing in the past, partly because no wormer was available for milkers, or are we over worming youngstock so less natural immunity is developed , or what?

 

[Water Wheel]

Just to confuse me the samples came back :- "Larvae not detected" milk yields still good but coughing is increasing, not seen any looking distressed.

If we don't worm we will re sample in 10 days or so.

 

[O'Reilly]

Just get some eprizero on them quick if it's getting worse. It will feck you up if you wait around. Been there. Don't normally favour use of products willy nilly, but it's worth it in this instance.

 

[Water Wheel]

Treated.
So much for taking samples!
Coughing only very noticeable in parlour, only just notice while fetching them in or during treatment in race.

 

[The Grinch]

You’ve done the right thing. Hopefully you’ll notice a difference in a couple of days ! Our vet said it can be because of overworming in youngstock but it’s like a lot of niggly little viruses that seem to be around now which according to the old folk were unheard of years ago.

 

[Rednoc]

We had similar prob few years ago, turned out it was ibr! Had to go to 2x a year

 

[The Grinch]

How are the cows doing @Water Wheel

 

[Water Wheel]

How are the cows doing @Water Wheel

Still some coughing this morning but tailing off now rather than escalating as it was a week ago.
Wormed last Friday, with Eprizero pour on.
Vet seeing a lot this year

 

[The Agrarian]

I have noticeable coughing in big heifers this year. Last worming about a month ago didn't appear to make much difference. Still some coughs around, but cattle thriving well.

 

[Water Wheel]

Its now 3 weeks since we wormed the cows because of coughing, the coughing defiantly tailed off a lot for a week to 10 days but has increased a lot again. Starting to wonder what is going on


Failure of the treatment with wormer? Poor application?
Reinfection with lungworm?
Something else?

Will take a bulk milk sample for IBR testing in the morning, we think we are IBR free , but still vaccinate.
Will also talk to vet.

Seems ridiculous to retreat with wormer (Eprizero ) but ??

 

[I thats it]

Its now 3 weeks since we wormed the cows because of coughing, the coughing defiantly tailed off a lot for a week to 10 days but has increased a lot again. Starting to wonder what is going on


Failure of the treatment with wormer? Poor application?
Reinfection with lungworm?
Something else?

Will take a bulk milk sample for IBR testing in the morning, we think we are IBR free , but still vaccinate.
Will also talk to vet.

Seems ridiculous to retreat with wormer (Eprizero ) but ??

Keep us informed, mine are similar, were coughing a lot so poured on and they're now coughing less but odd ones still have quite a cough

 

[Water Wheel]

Keep us informed, mine are similar, were coughing a lot so poured on and they're now coughing less but odd ones still have quite a cough

I was hoping you were going to give me the answer!

 

[Stinker]

Ours are doing the same