Sucklers aborting

[dannewhouse]

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?

 

[primmiemoo]

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

 

[dannewhouse]

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

Edited IBR found and vaccinated for

 

[primmiemoo]

Edited IBR found and vaccinated for

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.

 

[Werzle]

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?

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.]

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]

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]

We vaccinate for lepto and bvd here though.

 

[M-J-G]

Have you done any testing for Neospora?

 

[dannewhouse]

Have you done any testing for Neospora?

No

 

[super4]

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

 

[Gulli]

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

 

[milkloss]

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]

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]

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

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

 

[johnspeehs]

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

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

 

[Sir loin]

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]

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]

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]

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?

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