Lump on cow's throat

charolais0153

What do ye think it is. Firm to touch. Not hot or causing discomfort

Say my name

Cancer or corruption.

greysides

Swollen submandibular lymph node. Abscess in it probably after drainage from a localised infection. Ignore it unless it gets much larger. Might regress or swell and burst.

_Brian

had a heifer with something similar.. vet said leave it be.. it eventually burst and went away.. sprayed it with wound powder after it burst.. never did her any harm

Sacrolyte

Double chin. High quality silage and copious amounts of rations compounded by her spending too much time lying on her fat arse on those comfy looking slat mats.

P.s I’m not a Vet.

greysides

Sacrolyte wrote: »

Double chin. High quality silage and copious amounts of rations compounded by her spending too much time lying on her fat arse on those comfy looking slat mats.

P.s I’m not a Vet.

You're definitely right about half of that ...

RD10

Have a cow with a big lump on her leg at present (about size of football/basketball)
Checked it out earlier - blood, no puss.
So am told it's a haematoma.
Anyone have any experience of this that cud give some advice or do i just leave her be?

greysides

If it's not bothering her then leave it be. It can be opened once it's been there a while so the burst artery will have healed. Investigating it can introduce dirt and it ends up as an abscess.

RD10

greysides wrote: »

If it's not bothering her then leave it be. It can be opened once it's been there a while so the burst artery will have healed. Investigating it can introduce dirt and it ends up as an abscess.

Cheers for that, shes outside now. Has this lump about 3 weeks now and pretty much still the same size.
Just Wondering how long it should be left or should be left alone altogether. Should it go down itself? Will try get a pic

greysides

If it's not causing a problem to her, or you, ignore it. It, depending on size, will take a good while to go. It can be speeded up by lancing it and flushing it but at the risk of starting an abscess. Anything to be done, if it is to be done, needs to consider the on-coming fly season.