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Mastitis in 7 month old heifer

  • 16-08-2016 08:46PM
    #1
    case5130
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    Evening all had the cows in for scanning this evening. We noticed one the heifer calfs with a swollen tit on further inspection it turned out to be mastitis..the old lad and the lad scanning couldn't believe it ....didn think a animal so young could get affected..got the vet out and the lanced it as was so bad ...any one else came across this ...


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  • #2
    20silkcut
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    I have a young heifer with severe warts. One of the warts is growing on one of her tits .Different I know but will probably have the same solution and have to get it lanced as well. I thought heifers only got mastitis if they were lactating.


  • #3
    whelan2
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    I wonder was there something sucking at the op's heifer, on warts they normally fall off before they calve down


  • #4
    alps
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    We get an operator to dehorn calves and at the same time he removes supernumerary teats...He has shown me calves with mastitis...


  • #5
    case5130
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    I wonder was there something sucking at the op's heifer, on warts they normally fall off before they calve down

    Can't imagine ant the other calfs sucking on her ... Rest of the tits are normal ...wonder do these fly tags really work looking at getting them for next year


  • #6
    The man in red and black
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    case5130 wrote: »
    Evening all had the cows in for scanning this evening. We noticed one the heifer calfs with a swollen tit on further inspection it turned out to be mastitis..the old lad and the lad scanning couldn't believe it ....didn think a animal so young could get affected..got the vet out and the lanced it as was so bad ...any one else came across this ...

    It is rare in one so young but could start off by getting a scratch on the teat from going into bushes or rough ground. Very very rarely you will get a young animal spontaneously generating milk and getting mastitis as a result but that would be down to exposure to mycotoxins or other oestrogenic compounds in mouldy feed etc.


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  • #7
    case5130
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    The man in red and black wrote: »
    It is rare in one so young but could start off by getting a scratch on the teat from going into bushes or rough ground. Very very rarely you will get a young animal spontaneously generating milk and getting mastitis as a result but that would be down to exposure to mycotoxins or other oestrogenic compounds in mouldy feed etc.
    Was in grazing ground that I have pilled the old straw bedding in would that have caused it


  • #8
    The man in red and black
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    You'd never know, if the right mould was growing in it to cause mycotoxin exposure it could explain it. But equally she could just have scratched the teat and flies contaminated it. One of those things you could never prove which it was unless you had a few cases.


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