pnuemonia

whelan1

a neighbour of mine - well about a mile away:)- has lost 3 cattle this week with pnuemonia is checking them 5 or 6 times a day and says its very hard to know if they are panting with the heat or blowing , anyways 2 of his broke out to another neighbour - closer to me - and his cows got pnuemonia , would this be ibr ? or something similar

whelan1

80 views and no replies thanks lads:rolleyes:

leg wax

whelan1 wrote: »

80 views and no replies thanks lads:rolleyes:

i looked and did not reply because thats what your vet is for .

reilig

Are they young cattle? I know someone who kept bulls and fed them for bull beef last year. He lost 2 out of 15. They were permanemtly running around the place, digging up the ground. It wasn't even safe to go into the field to feed them. Vet reconed that they were moving so much that they were sweating and then with all the rain,, they got a chill. was your neighbour's situation something similar???

vanderbadger

unusual enough for cows to be getting pneumonia wouldnt it? I have only ever seen younger cattle getting it

snowman707

reilig wrote: »

Are they young cattle? I know someone who kept bulls and fed them for bull beef last year. He lost 2 out of 15. They were permanemtly running around the place, digging up the ground. It wasn't even safe to go into the field to feed them. Vet reconed that they were moving so much that they were sweating and then with all the rain,, they got a chill. was your neighbour's situation something similar???

if I lost 2/15 catlle and if the vet "reckoned" this or that without taking nasal swabs or doing pm's he/she would never darken my yard again,



Op original post would put me thinking about BHV-1 but as leg wax says the vet is the only one who can help is this case

anyhow p11sing rain here so off to athenry sheep west for a couple of hours.

reilig

snowman707 wrote: »

if I lost 2/15 catlle and if the vet "reckoned" this or that without taking nasal swabs or doing pm's he/she would never darken my yard again,

Ha

his brother is his vet. i didn't say he didn't do any tests I don't know what tests he did, I just know that he told him that the pnumonia was caused by the bulls being very active during the wet cold weather.

anyhow p11sing rain here so off to athenry sheep west for a couple of hours.

Enjoy. I heard very little about it. Was it advertised?? I remember going there a few years ago for a sheep event and it was quite good.

whelan1

leg wax wrote: »

i looked and did not reply because thats what your vet is for .

he's not my vet , i dont have the problem yet , touch wood, never saw ibr before

whelan1

no these are 1-2 yo friesian heifers and blacks , just worried about the way it spread to another neighbour so easily

leg wax

whelan1 wrote: »

he's not my vet , i dont have the problem yet , touch wood, never saw ibr before

sorry if i was a bit harsh, i have not come across it yet,but have run into rotavirus last year and lost 6 new born calves within 48 hrs of been born.

whelan1

we have had rotavirus too but was just wondering what ibr is like , i know he has vaccinated them all for ibr now

pakalasa

whelan1 wrote: »

80 views and no replies thanks lads:rolleyes:

I think you just frightened everyone.

whelan1

yup everyone must have ran to check their cattle for blowing:rolleyes: