Displaced Abdomin

Mulumpy

Had vet out to a first calver today that had ketosis last week but not recovering. He said she has a left displaced abdomin and needs to be operated on. Has anyone any experience of this and whats the recovery success rate like. She has very little milk from eating nothing.

mahoney_j

Mulumpy wrote: »

Had vet out to a first calver today that had ketosis last week but not recovering. He said she has a left displaced abdomin and needs to be operated on. Has anyone any experience of this and whats the recovery success rate like. She has very little milk from eating nothing.

Had one 2 years ago and she recovered perfect and still in herd.acting early is key.i rember vet giving her 3 Ltrs of water and a jar of coffee,not lying.he said to repeat same for 5 days but use a jar of espresso instead.it worked great.seemingly gets their gut going.will take her a bit to recover.

Milked out

With a young cow recovery should be ok, if things go to plan she may well get back in heat during the breeding season, I think a right side displacement has lower chance of success. She will be an extra job minding her after it , the vet is the person to b asking tho based on the cow, don't hang about tho it needs to be done quick put there'll b no cow to operate on

Brown Podzol

Mulumpy wrote: »

Had vet out to a first calver today that had ketosis last week but not recovering. He said she has a left displaced abdomin and needs to be operated on. Has anyone any experience of this and whats the recovery success rate like. She has very little milk from eating nothing.

I have had a few over the years. They generally make a good recovery. About as serious as a c-section. One vet, who had done a good few in his surgery said the odd one would have righted themselves on the journey in the cattle box, so his advice was to dose her with a jar of coffee and take her for a spin in the box and check her again before the operation.

jt65

one very serious case last year, where vet operated and it much more complicated than he expected, however cow made a full recovery eventually

also 1 a few years back which was easy by comparison , also we rolled & stomach tubed another cow with success

there is only 1 vet in the practise that I would allow operate , this guy specializes in this ailment & has a high success rate

as stated sooner rather than later and stock up on the coffee

maxxuumman

Had a good few a number of years ago, 100% success rate for operation.
IMO they turn into massively efficient cows after having their stomach stitched in place. Any cows that got it done were massive milkers afterwards. ( maybe that's what help cause it in the first place!)
Not enough fibre and going in too strong with meals after calving ( and breeding) was the cause here.

flat out !!

maxxuumman wrote: »

Had a good few a number of years ago, 100% success rate for operation.
IMO they turn into massively efficient cows after having their stomach stitched in place. Any cows that got it done were massive milkers afterwards. ( maybe that's what help cause it in the first place!)
Not enough fibre and going in too strong with meals after calving ( and breeding) was the cause here.

Yeah, I'd agree, had one operated on last year, two weeks later she used to be the first one to run into the milking parlour, ate all round her, pumped milk out of her and went back in calf. Never looked back since.

royalmeath

Had one the other day. Cow was on meal and looking good prior to calving. calf came backwards and a couple of days later she went off her food except she would pick a bit of haylage. She had the op on friday and is still refusing meal in the parlour but she looks brighter and she is
grazing and back chawing away.

kevthegaff

Had one yesterday, right displacement:-(, vet says hes hardly ever seen it in a jersey before. operating today fingers crossed

PN14

Had one for operation on Monday. Looking brighter already eating hay in shed and looking to get out still off meal though. Calved last week and just wasn't right was right off meal. Tried the coffee, salt & water trick as advised by vet but no improvement so op on Monday. We have had a few before rolling sorted a couple and we have had successful operation on one as well.

Clutch Pack

Have the T shirt here as well from a spate of them up to a few years ago.
The operation i would consider a last resort as while it is successfull in that it kept the cow alive i found there was always problems after.
Early intervention is critical we found the most successfull method to be 40 litres of warm water Reviva powder,Coffee and Cetophyin pumped into the stomach with an Aggers pump for two days running along with OAD milking.
Short wet grass is lethal for it.