Never seen this before....

[Sir loin]

Cow calved this afternoon camera shows calf up and sucking and calf full checking cow and calf tonight put her in crush and nothing but cherry red blood coming from all 4 teats( not chocolaty colour) cow not even sore ,full draws of blood could draw easily a litre of blood but did not give it to calf, mixed colostrum and fed 2 litres, Tomorrow will let it suckle another cow in crush.
Given cow 25ml pen and strep plus 3ml oxytocin and calf 5ml Noradine, will have to see what things look like in the morning.

 

[AftonShepherd]

Think someone posted relatively recently about a ewe with same thing. Can't remember advice or outcome though

 

[Werzle]

Cow calved this afternoon camera shows calf up and sucking and calf full checking cow and calf tonight put her in crush and nothing but cherry red blood coming from all 4 teats( not chocolaty colour) cow not even sore ,full draws of blood could draw easily a litre of blood but did not give it to calf, mixed colostrum and fed 2 litres, Tomorrow will let it suckle another cow in crush.
Given cow 25ml pen and strep plus 3ml oxytocin and calf 5ml Noradine, will have to see what things look like in the morning.

Feed the calf enough to survive bit not enough to stop him sucking, he will bring her into milk in a couple of days for sure. I think for the first time ever all my cows will be treated with orbeseal or dry cow tubes this autumn after the calves are weaned.

 

[Nithsdale]

Seen it a couple times before and is nothing to worry about - blood is usually only seen in the first draw of milk.

When it's Cherry colour everything is OK

 

[Sir loin]

Seen it a couple times before and is nothing to worry about - blood is usually only seen in the first draw of milk.

When it's Cherry colour everything is OK

Would you let calf drink it, blood is a very good host for nasty bacteria.

 

[beardface]

Seen it a couple times before and is nothing to worry about - blood is usually only seen in the first draw of milk.

When it's Cherry colour everything is OK

We had a similar one last year. Asked my neighbour (used to be a vet and had dairy) said it probably had a knock to bag which bruised it. Came right after a day or so. I stripped some blood/milk out of it for first feed then powder for next couple feeds until it came milk again. She said same as long as no clots and it's bright blood don't worry.

 

[neilo]

Back in the days of the YTS scheme (80’s?), we had a young lad on the scheme at home. I remember a cow that calved that had a lot of blood in her milk, and he questioned it. He was told that it was how strawberry milk shake was made, and duly sent home with a bottle of it…

It didn’t kill him, so I don’t suppose it would hurt a calf. Would you even have known if you hadn’t drawn it?

 

[Anymulewilldo]

First time I ever saw it Grandparent’s had gone on holiday and left me in charge. 15/16 ish. Lim heifer calved down, licked calf off grand. Hadn’t seen it suckle within a couple of hours so put her in suckling crush and drew her a bit to put calf on. Looked like pure blood on all 4 quarters. Talk about panic a young lad rang one of Grandads mates who calved quite a few sucklers back then to be told its quite normal, put the calf on. Day 2 milk was a pinky colour and day 3 was practically the right colour. She went on to calve 9 more times here before she dropped her last calf, gave it colostrum and then dried herself off! Calf went on the bucket, she went on the wagon.

 

[Sir loin]

First time I ever saw it Grandparent’s had gone on holiday and left me in charge. 15/16 ish. Lim heifer calved down, licked calf off grand. Hadn’t seen it suckle within a couple of hours so put her in suckling crush and drew her a bit to put calf on. Looked like pure blood on all 4 quarters. Talk about panic a young lad rang one of Grandads mates who calved quite a few sucklers back then to be told its quite normal, put the calf on. Day 2 milk was a pinky colour and day 3 was practically the right colour. She went on to calve 9 more times here before she dropped her last calf, gave it colostrum and then dried herself off! Calf went on the bucket, she went on the wagon.

You probably wont know or remember did she do it very year?

 

[Suffolksucklers]

We bought a cow off someone who warned us she did this every year but always came right after a couple of days and calf always seemed to do well. I think we used to hand strip the other quarters whilst it was sucking just to speed things along

 

[Nithsdale]

Would you let calf drink it, blood is a very good host for nasty bacteria.

Yes... if the calf had sucked naturally it would have taken it all and nobody would be any the wiser.

Cherry red means the blood is fresh, there's nothing to worry about. Different story of it was curdled and going grey/brown - sign of mastitis and other bad things going on.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

You probably wont know or remember did she do it very year?

Never did it again. We checked every year after her first calf, mainly cos I was interested if it was just a first time thing or the way she worked

 

[Dry Rot]

If the cow lost the calf, I'd be worried with the lack of flow not keeping the milk and blood flowing. Blood in urine is a serious matter as it can clot blocking the flow, then back pressure. Now how do I know that? Three days in hospital during covid, that's how serious.

 

[Nithsdale]

If the cow lost the calf, I'd be worried with the lack of flow not keeping the milk and blood flowing. Blood in urine is a serious matter as it can clot blocking the flow, then back pressure. Now how do I know that? Three days in hospital during covid, that's how serious.

The udder isn't like a bladder though.


A ewe or cow with a big bag losses it's newborn and nothing is put onto her - she will dry off. The milk doesn't run out of her as the seal will never have been broken.


Your bladder can not and does not dry off.

 

[Dry Rot]

The udder isn't like a bladder though.


A ewe or cow with a big bag losses it's newborn and nothing is put onto her - she will dry off. The milk doesn't run out of her as the seal will never have been broken.


Your bladder can not and does not dry off.

That makes sense. Thank you.

 

[Sir loin]

Calf tonight is looking full again watched him drink for a good 5 minutes and cleaned her out on one side.
Had her in crush this morning, already chocolaty so hopefully going the right way. Will be happy when I see calf having a little buck and a skip .

 

[Boo-Boo]

See one or two every year , never thought anything wrong with it and fed it to newborn straight away

 

[Sir loin]

See one or two every year , never thought anything wrong with it and fed it to newborn straight away

maybe more common than I thought I've stripped out a few cows in my time but never seen one as cherry red as this, but I suppose one or two of those calves that are up and away, I will never know.