cow with meningitis

raher1

i have a cow with meningitis,she is recovering but i have read there is some side effects,i want to know will it occur again.is she worth keeping.hoping for the best here,great breeding cow

bob charles

If you got her early enough and she is getting better I cant see any reason why it will affect here or I dont think there is an increased risk of her getting infected again. Presume your treating with some form of Oxytetracycline

raher1

the vet gave me a course of injections,she is picking up slowly.she is not going around in circles now just falling to one side.i'm going to let her raise her calf and see.

reilig

We had one a couple of years ago. She got it but made a full recovery. Unfortunately 2 years later she got it again and died. My vet said that it was common enough for them to get it a second time as the system is weakened. My advice would be that when she makes a recovery, get rid of her - while prices are good. She will go a long way to buying a quality replacement!!

whelan1

have a cow - well a first calver- that came in this morning with a droopy ear, eye ball well back and slobbering... i gave her a bottle of magnessium just ti cover her and got vet... she says its some sort of paralysis of the nerves/ muscles on the one side of her face, looks a bit like listeriosis also but the cows are off silage 3 monyhs , so she ruled that out... the eyeball will react to you, anyone ever see anything like this before... the eyelash isnt working to keep dirt out... she put her on alamycin, pen/strep and duphacort

leg wax

whelan1 wrote: »

have a cow - well a first calver- that came in this morning with a droopy ear, eye ball well back and slobbering... i gave her a bottle of magnessium just ti cover her and got vet... she says its some sort of paralysis of the nerves/ muscles on the one side of her face, looks a bit like listeriosis also but the cows are off silage 3 monyhs , so she ruled that out... the eyeball will react to you, anyone ever see anything like this before... the eyelash isnt working to keep dirt out... she put her on alamycin, pen/strep and duphacort

jesus if that was a person you would say they ot a stroke,never seen it in a cow it kind of soundslike a cow that was down and on her side all night ,were the cows on a hilly paddock for the night.

whelan1

leg wax wrote: »

jesus if that was a person you would say they ot a stroke,never seen it in a cow it kind of soundslike a cow that was down and on her side all night ,were the cows on a hilly paddock for the night.

just noticed this evening the bull has gotten a bit rough, he could have given her a wallop... no they where on a flat paddock, a stroke is what i thought too

LostCovey

whelan1 wrote: »

have a cow - well a first calver- that came in this morning with a droopy ear, eye ball well back and slobbering... i gave her a bottle of magnessium just ti cover her and got vet... she says its some sort of paralysis of the nerves/ muscles on the one side of her face, looks a bit like listeriosis also but the cows are off silage 3 monyhs , so she ruled that out... the eyeball will react to you, anyone ever see anything like this before... the eyelash isnt working to keep dirt out... she put her on alamycin, pen/strep and duphacort

Hi Whelan1,

Sounds like listeriosis all the same. We had it in cows at grass when I was a kid in the month of August.

They don't have to be on silage, that's a common myth, because it's a soil organism that causes it - in wet weather cattle eat a lot of soil (pulled up with grass roots) - over 1 kg/day - e.g. see http://www.mineralsystems.co.nz/2010/03/quick-quiz-march/

If she has lived long enough to give the antibiotics a chance there's a very good hope for her.

I bet she is either a young cow (putting up teeth) or an old cow (losing them) because the bug usually gets in through a tooth socket.

Hope she pulls through,

LostCovey

raher1

sell that cow to the factory, i had a bull with something like that,vet suggested your disease. just dropped in weight,lost at least half.lucky to get 500e at the end.

whelan1

cant sell her to the factory as she has antibiotics in her systems now , will take a while for the withdrawal period to be up....she's still the same today, gave her her shots for today earlier, thought there should be some improvement... we had a cow with listeriosis years ago but she was different to this one , she had nervous sysmptoms as well this one apart from the paralysis of the side of the face is fine

5live

Thought this might be of interest

http://www.independent.ie/farming/neglecting-the-tiniest-detail-can-prove-costly-2673522.html

whelan1

vet was out again today to a different cow... anyway she had spoken to the senior vet and he is happy that it is blunt trauma , that the nerve/ muscles to that side of the face have been damaged... will have to wait and see if/when she gets better

raher1

sell the cow to the factory after six weeks unless she recovers,sounds like an e-coli disease and thats the end of most animals

LostCovey

kopite4 wrote: »

sell the cow to the factory after six weeks unless she recovers,sounds like an e-coli disease and thats the end of most animals

Is there much of that e-coli disease in cows this year?

raher1

yes,if you believe the vets,dirty water in water troughts,septic tanks over flow and dead horses in rivers.

Bizzum

I feel a calm before the storm moment...............:cool:

whelan1

cow will get the last of the course of antibiotics today... she is not slobbering anymore but the eye is still sunk back and ear is still droopy

whelan1

rang vet earlier , going to get cow put down... she cant process the cud its gust falling out of her mouth..:mad:

westmidlands

Just found a heifer with meningitis this evening, second one in a few weeks! If its caused by a soil organism is there any chance my land is infected, is there anything that I can do to help avoid it?

raher1

We have none since we found out people were dumping nappies on the land. Stuck in a hedge well out of site. We found more rubbish aswell.

westmidlands

raher1 wrote: »

We have none since we found out people were dumping nappies on the land. Stuck in a hedge well out of site. We found more rubbish aswell.

Thats awful! At least you found the cause though, the field our heifer is in is well back from the road, we never had this problem until this year

raher1

Did check your field for old rubbish from dung or stale water.