cow with split teat

jersey101

Was milking this pm and a spring calver due to be dried of soon has a split vertically all the way up her teat.
I didnt milk her tonight because she looked sore, all the milk spilled onto the ground when she let it down though.

What do i do with her???

i dont want her getting mastitis but as soon as i touched her she went kicking

satstheway

We had one cleaned the teat off when getting up, slanted cut flush with teat at one end and about 1/2 inch at other end. Put her into parlor and gave her nuts milk started like a tap had just opened then blood and lots of it but it eventually stopped. Anyway a few days later we started milking it again and it had healed up very well some months later. Milk starts coming just after giving nuts.
My only concern is she will be dried in 2 weeks but how do you tube a cow with no teat.

jersey101

Ye thats my problem im going to dry another batch on monday and she could be one due to be dried, but how can i dry her with a split teat.

Wonder would she dry up herself if i left her on just straw for a few days?

delaval

Out to the field with her. Her chances of picking up a life threatening infection are very real.

Remove teat if it's not slit to the udder, you can do this yourself or if never done get vet to do it and watch him/her, it's simple with the righ tools

jersey101

delaval wrote: »

Out to the field with her. Her chances of picking up a life threatening infection are very real.

Remove teat if it's not slit to the udder, you can do this yourself or if never done get vet to do it and watch him/her, it's simple with the righ tools

i couldnt get a proper look at her tonight because she was kicking too much but looks close enough to the udder.

Heard of lads putting a burdizzo oncows before alright but thats rough id say.

jomoloney

be very careful removing teat,

heard of cows bleeding to death and there is no way of stopping it

put her in the crush

tie up her leg and inspect it properly

start a course of penstrep or maybe noroclav

6480

as delaval said out to the field try tapping it up with surgal tape , it worked here on a cow

dar31

if you can try give her another 2-3 weeks before drying off to give it a chance to heal, if you do cut it off tie off the end with a bit of string for a few hours to give the blood a chance to clot.

we have one girl with half the teat cut off, no problems with mastitis or leaking, until she come into the parlour, then she just lets it all down, you could miss all the milk if you werent quick

jersey101

dar31 wrote: »

if you can try give her another 2-3 weeks before drying off to give it a chance to heal, if you do cut it off tie off the end with a bit of string for a few hours to give the blood a chance to clot.

we have one girl with half the teat cut off, no problems with mastitis or leaking, until she come into the parlour, then she just lets it all down, you could miss all the milk if you werent quick

ye thats what she did tonight as soon as i came along presprating her she let all the milk down. Ill give vet a buzz in the morn and see what he say

satstheway

You can get an external sealer from magenta. MHC barrier.
It might do my job after I get her dry cowed, we used it yrs ago it was a syrup like substance that u dip the teats with and I dries quickly to form a rubbery skin. Might help if you have to keep her in the shed.

Timmaay

I've afew cows with very short teat lengths, and leak non stop, I hadn't heard of that, but will definitely be picking up a bottle of it! http://www.magentadirect.ie/proddetail.php?prod=MDH0047&cat=13

jomoloney

satstheway wrote: »

You can get an external sealer from magenta. MHC barrier.
It might do my job after I get her dry cowed, we used it yrs ago it was a syrup like substance that u dip the teats with and I dries quickly to form a rubbery skin. Might help if you have to keep her in the shed.

Timmaay wrote: »

I've afew cows with very short teat lengths, and leak non stop, I hadn't heard of that, but will definitely be picking up a bottle of it! http://www.magentadirect.ie/proddetail.php?prod=MDH0047&cat=13

TBH I didn't find this much good, maybe if you cleaned it off every second day and re applied , or if the animal was out the field maybe ok

i found in the cubicles it tended to flake and dry off.


it's awhile since i bought it , but it might be cheaper to buy directly from MHC

C0N0R

delaval wrote: »

Out to the field with her. Her chances of picking up a life threatening infection are very real.

Remove teat if it's not slit to the udder, you can do this yourself or if never done get vet to do it and watch him/her, it's simple with the righ tools

How does the vet go about doing it? Wat a lot of people would do here is put a rubber ring on like you were tailing a lamb and leave it on for a few days then cut, stops the blood flow.

freedominacup

If she's going dry the she's gone dry. Into the crush and tie her securely. Clean the wound totally. Wound powder or some other absorbent compound, some light lint and plenty of surgical tape. Start as high up close to the udder as you can esp. if some of the teat is undamaged. You'll want plenty of LA antibiotics for at least a week and out to the field until the wound is healed. I don't think she has a prayer indoors. I've seen them go both ways, at least iit didn't happen in the spring when you are up to your goolies in calving and calves, you have a bit more time to work on her at the mo'.

jersey101

She came in in tge second row this am. Looked at her teat didnt look as bad as what i had first thought so put the cups on 3 of her teats and saud id milk her teat in the pm but she kicked off cluster and then the teat opened and let all the milk out.

Mixed up a stiff mix of kaolin powder,dapped it on her teat and put gauz on it. Have her in the field now. Ill see what shes like tonight

Capercaille

Chop the teat off. Good man on tail and use burdizzo to amputate teat. Amputate above where the cut is.

jersey101

Capercaille wrote: »

Chop the teat off. Good man on tail and use burdizzo to amputate teat. Amputate above where the cut is.

wont be cutting it off just yet. Had her in the parlour tonight and she is healing abit. Ill see how it goes

satstheway

Chopping off a teat with a burdizzo. Sounds painful.
Think of the animal and get a vet.

Timmaay

satstheway wrote: »

Chopping off a teat with a burdizzo. Sounds painful.
Think of the animal and get a vet.

No huge rush either, give it time to heal up some bit before going to the extreme of cutting it off. One she is off the cubicles thats the main thing.

moy83

Did any of ye use honey to heal up a cut on a tit ? If you can try out a bit jersey do and see what you think . I did it a few times and was surprised how quick and well it worked

jersey101

moy83 wrote: »

Did any of ye use honey to heal up a cut on a tit ? If you can try out a bit jersey do and see what you think . I did it a few times and was surprised how quick and well it worked

never heard if it. I will try it tonight. I had the cups on her this morning and no blood coming so ill see how she goes.
Have a flippin calf with joint ill ive to look after now

moy83

jersey101 wrote: »

never heard if it. I will try it tonight. I had the cups on her this morning and no blood coming so ill see how she goes.
Have a flippin calf with joint ill ive to look after now

You will be injecting for a few days for that .

jersey101

moy83 wrote: »

You will be injecting for a few days for that .

ye he got the first shot last night, giving him vetomoxin, seems a bit perkier this morning

delaval

jersey101 wrote: »

ye he got the first shot last night, giving him vetomoxin, seems a bit perkier this morning

Him? hardly worth the treatment:eek:

jersey101

delaval wrote: »

Him? hardly worth the treatment:eek:

ah why would ye let an animal suffer. He was stiff for a while and then his knees just blew up over night. Its another 80e all the same when i sell him

Farfield

Meat factory asap before any injecting???

jersey101

Farfield wrote: »

Meat factory asap before any injecting???

its only a calf 3 weeks od

delaval

jersey101 wrote: »

its only a calf 3 weeks od

If its a Jer bull would a knacker not be better value. I'm not suggesting ignoring it and having the animal suffer

jersey101

delaval wrote: »

If its a Jer bull would a knacker not be better value. I'm not suggesting ignoring it and having the animal suffer

its a fr, if it was a je it would be gone long ago

Farfield

I mean send the cow to the factory - thats a serious hassle and if it got badly infected you could loose all.

jersey101

Farfield wrote: »

I mean send the cow to the factory - thats a serious hassle and if it got badly infected you could loose all.

incalf? She is coming along. Miking her on it now. Getting lots of kickes but its healing

joejobrien

jersey101 wrote: »

incalf? She is coming along. Miking her on it now. Getting lots of kickes but its healing

Jesery, do you think the honey is helping?

jersey101

joejobrien wrote: »

Jesery, do you think the honey is helping?

out of honey at the moment. The mother will get some on wednesday

delaval

jersey101 wrote: »

out of honey at the moment. The mother will get some on wednesday

Do the bees take Mon and Tues off down your way?

moy83

jersey101 wrote: »

out of honey at the moment. The mother will get some on wednesday

Twill be healed by Wednesday !!!! You would want to have words with the mother about keeping the shelves filled with necessaties !

jersey101

delaval wrote: »

Do the bees take Mon and Tues off down your way?

honey is a luxury product del boy:D only allowed it for our sunday tea

jersey101

moy83 wrote: »

Twill be healed by Wednesday !!!! You would want to have words with the mother about keeping the shelves filled with necessaties !

i wish it wuld be thats when w
The weekly shop is done. I'd come in in the evenings and id eat over and under me and there would be nothing left by friday ha

jersey101

Looks like i have another cow with a split teat,was feeding out silage to milkers and this cow was standing there at the gate, along comes another cow, gives her a phuck in the side and sends her flying onto the ground, cow gets up and blood every where, ffs thats the 3rd cow now fecked up

MFdaveIreland

jersey101 wrote: »

Looks like i have another cow with a split teat,was feeding out silage to milkers and this cow was standing there at the gate, along comes another cow, gives her a phuck in the side and sends her flying onto the ground, cow gets up and blood every where, ffs thats the 3rd cow now fecked up

Not having much luck Jersey, there's a crowd in warrenpoint, county down do creams for cuts and scrapes, seems to work well enough, I'm sure there's plenty of others

jersey101

MFdaveIreland wrote: »

Not having much luck Jersey, there's a crowd in warrenpoint, county down do creams for cuts and scrapes, seems to work well enough, I'm sure there's plenty of others

do ye have a company name?

MFdaveIreland

jersey101 wrote: »

do ye have a company name?

http://www.botanica.ie/ worth a try

jersey101

Looked at the cows teat, its beyond repair, the outside skin is hanging off and the inner teat is exposed

MFdaveIreland

jersey101 wrote: »

Looked at the cows teat, its beyond repair, the outside skin is hanging off and the inner teat is exposed

Y cud try it, or the petroleum jelly type stuff on it, eventually should heal, I have seen a few bad ones caught on wire etc

jersey101

MFdaveIreland wrote: »

Y cud try it, or the petroleum jelly type stuff on it, eventually should heal, I have seen a few bad ones caught on wire etc

she gives alot of milk,25l on the last recording so dont want her getting a bad case of mastitis, vet will be here on friday, ill see what he says

MFdaveIreland

jersey101 wrote: »

she gives alot of milk,25l on the last recording so dont want her getting a bad case of mastitis, vet will be here on friday, ill see what he says

No probs , keep us posted