One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

[OneFineAcre]

@OneFineAcre

You should consider putting this in its own thread. Not many people are aware of dry does getting mastitis. Who knows, it could really help someone in the future.

Why did you use Tomorrow instead of Today? Are you going to keep milking her out? Just curious.

Hopefully she will get over this quickly

And..,, it is tricky infusing a Nigeriam
Had to get Maurines reading glasses
I would have been useless

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Oh I bet THAT was fun





Poor girl (goat) I bet she wasn't very happy

 

[babsbag]

My only doe with mastitis had it when she was drying up, so not exactly dry. Sorry you are having to deal with this. You said you started her on antibiotics already but I would get that culture done ASAP. For me I wanted to know what it wasn't so I only had them check for myco which was negative but like a dummy I didn't have them find out what it was. The doe recovered but did lose the use of 1/2 of her udder, pretty sure it was from scar tissue.

There is some herbal stuff you can get from Fir Meadow to help with scar tissue and other problems, might want to contact her about additional treatments. Wish I had followed through with that.

Hope this ends well

 

[bonbean01]

X 2!!! Hoping this ends well!!!

 

[babsbag]

My information is that you milk them out everyday all day, as many times as you can. The more you get that yuck out of her and the more you keep the orifices open the better off she will be. I have heard of people milking them 4 and 5 times a day. Also massaging her udder with peppermint infused cream will help with congestion.

The only antibiotics that will do much good are the ones that are infused into the udder, systemic ones are pretty useless.

I may be telling you something you are already doing, but get the culture done, it is critical to know what you are fighting.

 

[OneFineAcre]

If Rollins is open tomorrow we will take it
Presidents' Day

 

[Hens and Roos]

Can you explain more about the medicine- Today and Tomorrow- DH remembers this from when he grew up on a dairy farm but not enough to explain.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Can you explain more about the medicine- Today and Tomorrow- DH remembers this from when he grew up on a dairy farm but not enough to explain.

Tomorrow is cephapirin benzathine. It is a type of antibiotic I guess. It comes in a 12x10ml syringe with a very small nipple that you insert into the orifice of the teat and infuse the medicine directly into the udder.

 

[OneFineAcre]

A little more information, I was on my phone last night.
The doe with mastitis is Minnie, my daughter Rachel's pet. She is 6 years old and one of the first goats we got. She's the only unregistered animal we have now. She's a good little goat, never gets' to skinny never gets' too fat. She's a decent milker.

So @Goat Whisperer mentioned treating with Tomorrow when drying off. We hadn't normally been doing that but we did with Minnie and one other doe this year.
You remember I mentioned that we participated in the research project at NC State where they tested for Staph aureus? Well none of ours tested positive for Staph aureus, but Minnie and another tested positive for Coagulase negative staph.
The professor who was the grad students advisor who was doing the study said it was a fairly benign strain of staph (at least as benign as any staph can be) and both he and our vet recommended that we treat both of them with Tomorrow when we dried them off.
Apparently didn't help Minnie.

So, the vet told us to milk her out twice a day and treat with Tomorrow each time.

So, hopefully she'll be OK. She has no temp and is acting normal. Wasn't pleasant for her milking that goop out or infusing her teat.

I don't know if Rollins is open tomorrow. The university is open for Presidents Day, but not sure about the rest of the state.

 

[bonbean01]

Hoping she will be okay!!! The woman in me reading this is saying...ouch, ouch, ouch! That poor girl!