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Post by tobemeghan on Jul 31, 2010 18:45:53 GMT -5
I just went to get my Dexter cow to milk her and she had escaped and got into the apple tree, she is now quite bloated and has diarrhea. We are walking her around and she is pooping and burping but still is very bloated.. What do I do now?
Thank you for ANY info.
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Post by copperhead on Jul 31, 2010 19:05:07 GMT -5
You should probably call your vet and find out for sure. I think if she's pooping she will be alright. You could probably drench her with some bicarb of soda, but, I'd talk to a vet first.
Hope she gets better, P.J.
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Post by tobemeghan on Jul 31, 2010 20:08:59 GMT -5
Thank you for your reply! I got some veg. oil down her and walked her for about 40mins and then tied her uphill. I just finished milking her and she is back down to normal size and is acting fine (trying to eat while I was walking her etc).
Thanks again!
Tobey
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Post by Star Creek Dexters on Jul 31, 2010 21:45:29 GMT -5
Wow! Tobey, so glad that everything turned out ok for you and your cow! What a scary thing to have happen. Earlier this year, when the clover came out real heavy, another Dexter owner lost her milking Dexter to bloat, it was fast and scary and over before she really knew what had happened. I am SO glad that things turned out different for you! Keep us posted on how she's doing.
Gene, thanks for the great advice. I will look into the Therabloat for sure. Sounds like a medicine I need to add to my closet!
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Post by Clive on Aug 1, 2010 9:39:02 GMT -5
We had one last year got bloat, the drench wouldn't work on this one. She was on her side in agony, swollen right up and legs sticking out like stiff pins. I punctured her with the biggest needle I had which did something, but then the vet came and did it properly with a red plastic pointed screw-in thing. I've got one of those in stock now. She'd have been dead I reckon possibly within the hour or less. Soon as she was punctured, we gave her some more drench and then she just got up and started eating!
She got this just on dry hay.
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Post by tobemeghan on Aug 5, 2010 14:18:33 GMT -5
Thank you all for your replies, Dax is doing well and we haven't had anymore problems. I am going to get some of that bloat medication to keep on hand. I lost a goat to bloat this spring. For the first time she was bred off of the farm so I didn't know exactly when she was due (she was off the farm for 3mos). She had been back on the farm for about 6mos and she was really big so we just thought she was bred within the first couple of weeks she was gone but no. She aborted her kids and we rushed her too the vet still not sure what was wrong. Our regular vet had died about a year before so we went to someone we had never been too before and he just commented that her "sides are a little tight" but just gave her an antibiotic and sent us home. I ask him why her sides were tight and he said couldn't say for sure but she would be fine. She died within the next 2hrs. At the time I should have known it was bloat, had never ran into it before and wasn't thinking straight.
Thanks again everyone!
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Post by copperhead on Aug 5, 2010 15:34:11 GMT -5
I'm telling my age, but, I remember the oldtimers taking out a pocket knife and sticking a bloated cow, and would put some tube or hose in the cut to let the gas off. Not to sanitary, but it sure worked.
P.J.
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Post by legendrockranch on Aug 5, 2010 18:49:08 GMT -5
Copperhead, we saw what you had described first hand while staying with our farmer friend in Kansas.
Farmer Joe, as we call him, stuck a knife in a bloated cow.
WHEW did it smell bad....
We were all enjoying ourselves throughout the night instead of checking on the cow. The hole must have closed up. When we woke up the next morning we found her bloated and dead.
We all felt REAL bad.
Barb
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Post by Star Creek Dexters on Aug 13, 2010 11:32:45 GMT -5
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