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Cow with a half closed teat

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  • 12-03-2014 1:19am
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    jack o shea
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    Anyone any advice how to cure/improve a cow with a half closed teat?milks out but very slow its like its half blocked but seems to be clear from mastitis so far,any sort of a spray to put on it to open it up or what can be done?


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    Deepsouthwest
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    jack o shea wrote: »
    Anyone any advice how to cure/improve a cow with a half closed teat?milks out but very slow its like its half blocked but seems to be clear from mastitis so far,any sort of a spray to put on it to open it up or what can be done?

    Generally any intervention in cases like that will only lead to mastitis, so I'd milk her as she is and she might free out


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    Brown Podzol
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    jack o shea wrote: »
    Anyone any advice how to cure/improve a cow with a half closed teat?milks out but very slow its like its half blocked but seems to be clear from mastitis so far,any sort of a spray to put on it to open it up or what can be done?

    Is there a "pea" up there. Sometimes there can be a hard piece floating around in the quarter. If there is it can sometimes be forced out by squeezing hard and forcing out through the teat, otherwise the vet can do it. Maybe the sphincter or teat end isin't fully opened pushing a mastitis tube up there could free it. There used to be inserts you would put in when drying off a slow milking cow,take them out when she calved and the cow would be free milking then. Magenta used to sell then but I didn't see them with a few years. Hard to see any sort of spray working and as DSW says any intervention could result in mastitis.


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