dairy cow - high SCC bought for rearing calves- can't seem to cure mastitis in that q

sonnybill

As title suggests I bought a dairy cow to rear a 3 month char calf , not great on mastitis here as not had it in years as all spring calving and outside and thank god doesn't really feature in .. Any cow without a calf in summer months I dry cow tube and whenever they go through the chute I spray Stockholm aerosol in around udder .

This cow was clotty and even specs of blood when I got her in that quarter .. Vet gave me 20ml x 5 days of pen strip and 3 tubes ..milked out and replaced each evening .. Got it back to water but no milk .

Got 5 more tubes and repeated same for 5 days stripping her out and tubing .. Still no use.. Last week or so I strip her out as calf doesn't suck it .. Starts off as yellow clotty and then pure water.. Hard up the back of udder but she eating away and not sick with it.

Should I stop milking it out has she just a recurring problem and it's incurable .. Let her rear calf and factory her?

Thanks in advance lads/ ladies

whelan2

sonnybill wrote: »

As title suggests I bought a dairy cow to rear a 3 month char calf , not great on mastitis here as not had it in years as all spring calving and outside and thank god doesn't really feature in .. Any cow without a calf in summer months I dry cow tube and whenever they go through the chute I spray Stockholm aerosol in around udder .

This cow was clotty and even specs of blood when I got her in that quarter .. Vet gave me 20ml x 5 days of pen strip and 3 tubes ..milked out and replaced each evening .. Got it back to water but no milk .

Got 5 more tubes and repeated same for 5 days stripping her out and tubing .. Still no use.. Last week or so I strip her out as calf doesn't suck it .. Starts off as yellow clotty and then pure water.. Hard up the back of udder but she eating away and not sick with it.

Should I stop milking it out has she just a recurring problem and it's incurable .. Let her rear calf and factory her?

Thanks in advance lads/ ladies

Just leave her alone , if she and the calf are doing fine. Also put some fly pouron on her back

sonnybill

whelan2 wrote: »

Just leave her alone , if she and the calf are doing fine. Also put some fly pouron on her back

I let her off on fresh grass 5 miles away lastnight on her own with her calf and although there a crush there I might just aswell wave the white flag on this one and let her lose the spin.

stantheman1979

I wouldn't worry about her. She's not sick and will easily rear a calf! We've 6or 7 sucklers on 3spins and there isn't ever a problem raring a calf so surely a dairy cow can do it!!

sonnybill

stantheman1979 wrote: »

I wouldn't worry about her. She's not sick and will easily rear a calf! We've 6or 7 sucklers on 3spins and there isn't ever a problem raring a calf so surely a dairy cow can do it!!

Yeah the calf is flying it must have put up 30kg in last 3 weeks .. Heifer she was on was sick and was producing very little as a result . So compensatory growth big time .. She went from zero to hero overnight

sonnybill

whelan2 wrote: »

Just leave her alone , if she and the calf are doing fine. Also put some fly pouron on her back

Her 3 teats that calf sucking are all scabs.. I put cheno unction on them lastnight , not touched her in 12 days. And barely touched mastitis teat and a scoot of stuff came out of it....all hard n hot in quarter still .... Milked out a half litre of clotty stuff ... Should I have left it alone ?

Kovu

I wouldn't worry too much about the scabs, the calves are chawing at her. Some of ours are all chapped as well but the calves still suckle, maybe with a few clatters to the head from Mammy though

Maybe just keep an eye on that quarter, it seems to be keeping itself ok. I'd put more tar on that than really bother with any of the others, flies on it could cause more irritation or bring new bugs into the quarter.

sonnybill

Kovu wrote: »

I wouldn't worry too much about the scabs, the calves are chawing at her. Some of ours are all chapped as well but the calves still suckle, maybe with a few clatters to the head from Mammy though

Maybe just keep an eye on that quarter, it seems to be keeping itself ok. I'd put more tar on that than really bother with any of the others, flies on it could cause more irritation or bring new bugs into the quarter.

It's just out of welfare for her I'd throw a bit of cheno unction on her , would you draw out that quarter while she up the chute anyway .. I think it gave her ease

Kovu

sonnybill wrote: »

It's just out of welfare for her I'd throw a bit of cheno unction on her , would you draw out that quarter while she up the chute anyway .. I think it gave her ease

It probably gave her ease but unless you're going to be drawing it every day or so you're only prolonging it drying up and breaking any sort of seal that might have formed on it.

sonnybill

Kovu wrote: »

It probably gave her ease but unless you're going to be drawing it every day or so you're only prolonging it drying up and breaking any sort of seal that might have formed on it.

I prob should stop so as I failed to cure it with 2 weeks of drawing and 8 tubes and 5 days pen strip