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Retained afterbirth, pull, leave or cut off? Graphic picture warning

As above after a week or so the bugs start to break it down and it should come away easily.

Don't need ABs automatically; cattle have involved to deal with this over the ages a bit of RFM is no bother. In a human you would die in short order.
 

tinsheet

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Somerset
4 days from calving before you try to clean a cow, I do it myself, wear two gloves as it seems to get through, a good vet will unbutton it in less days than that though but its a job to find one that would know such stuff these days.
used to use pessaries but I don't think the vets bother now they give ab's instead
Still mange to get pessaries here, definitely double bag thought, 1 arm length then 1 latex! :sick:
 

Samcowman

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Cornwall
Give it a week to ten days. Had a couple this year I thought if she hasn’t cleared it by tomorrow I’ll get into it and she had it out by the morning.
If needed double glove or the wife won’t let you near her for a while ?. I always use a pessary after when I do one. Always think it’s best as it’s effectively rotting inside her.
 

Agrivator

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Scottsih Borders
Give it a week to ten days. Had a couple this year I thought if she hasn’t cleared it by tomorrow I’ll get into it and she had it out by the morning.
If needed double glove or the wife won’t let you near her for a while ?. I always use a pessary after when I do one. Always think it’s best as it’s effectively rotting inside her.

Is the pessary for the cow or for..........?
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
Had a cow calve last Saturday, not cleansed properly. Spoke to vet this morning, said to leave it at least 10 days before interfering, and only jab if cow stops eating or looks off colour
You can sometimes wrap it in a half-hitch around her tail to help her jer-jer-jiggle it free if there's enough hanging out to do so
 

Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Patience, both to wait before stepping in and when dealing with it while double gloved. Plenty of lube, and washout with lugois iodine. No ABs needed.
 

puppet

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
Give her an appropriate antibiotic and just leave it.

Avoid the temptation to cut it off, because the added weight of what's protruding will help her discharge the rest.

A rotten foul smell never killed man nor beast.
You ever smelt gangrene?
My vets advice is to twist like a rope and gentle traction as she will start pushing. If no further progress then cut it as short as you can and the end will be within the vagina. That picture looks like it is half out already. I would never leave that to hang as a perfect wick for all manner of bugs to climb inside her.
 

Yonlass

Member
Logically they must do? I think great care is taken to check nothing is amiss.
If it doesn't come out naturally in women (within an hour or so) I don't think they waste much time in taking you down to theatre to have it out.
You can opt for an injection in the thigh straight after birth (syntocinon?) which speeds it up, which I opted for. I told them I'd seen enough stuck cleansings in my time not to risk it ?
 

Yonlass

Member
And in answer to the OP, 5 days before panicking about it. The picture looks well ready to come away if you bung a glove on and gently lift it away. As has been said before, if the cow is bright and hasn't got a temp, then she's dealing with it well. Might need an estrumate in a few weeks to kick any last whites out. We scan fortnightly, and the vet only estrumates when they have a corpus luteum.
If she has a temp, isn't eating or looks down in any way, then a bottle of Synulox rtu over 3 days should mend her up.
 

leegarrett84

Member
Livestock Farmer
Could anyone give advice In regards to what they believe this could be evident of? Retained placenta or some type of water bag prior to birth possibly? Cow was bagging up, though not fully engorged and beginning to show signs of calving soon. A few days ago I come home from vacation and see this hanging from her but no calf to be found. Her bag is not overly full to her expectations of past calves and has not, to my sight, left the group of cows she usually runs with to attend to a calf if there is one. She has In the past been notorious about hiding her calves for weeks if not almost a month before allowing them into fields. As of today the object hanging has disappeared and a clearish thick vaginal discharged has replaced it.
 

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