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maryjane
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 Posted - Sep 08 2014 : 10:37:11 AM
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MaryJanesFarm Annual Vaccinations, Disease and Parasite Testing, and Mineral Analysis
Karina shot some photos last Friday while the WSU team was here for my annual health round-up on 11 of my animals (I’ll take my adult bulls to WSU next month for their annual routine). In the first photo, I was doing my daily herbal fly spray deterrent (recipe in my book). I spray every animal daily using a backpack sprayer. It’s quick, easy, chemical-free, and effective. Here I am spraying my latest addition, Lacy Lou.
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To get the concoction on their heads and around their eyes, I spray a bit into my hand and then rub it on them.
Here’s Sweetheart who was sprayed almost two hours earlier and nary a fly has landed on her.
Lacy Lou (front), Tony (middle), and Eliza Belle (rear). I haltered and tied up all my cows before the team showed up.
I’ve never been able to buy a heifer/cow halter from Weaver (brand) that is small enough for my newborns, but I recently discovered (tip from the vets at WSU) that a small Weaver LLAMA halter will work for the first few weeks on mine. Here’s Lacy Lou modeling it for you.
The vets have arrived! (“Oh joy,” my girls said.)
Tail bleed blood draws to test for Q fever, Johne’s, BVD, BLV, Brucellosis, and also to get a mineral panel done on each of them. While we had each one in the squeeze chute, we also took a stool sample to test for parasites (photos avoided out of dignity for the girls:)
Vaccinations followed. Tony going first getting “Vision 8 with Spur” injected subcutaneously.
Lacy Lou was next.
She got “Elite 9” injected intramuscularly. Everyone got both Elite 9 and Vision 8 with Spur.
Lacy Lou felt like sitting down and crying afterward. So she did.
Tail bleed.
Rose Etta about to get her Bang’s vaccination which means she’ll get a tattoo in one ear and her first metal ID tag in the other.
On all the girls I milk presently (five of them total but never more than three at a time), we did a TB test per state-federal law. The vets come back three days later to check to see if there is a reaction (positive or negative). A positive reaction to the skin prick injection site (caudal fold near the tail) will tell them that perhaps the cow has TB. If that happens, then they’ll do a more accurate blood test to confirm. One of my cows reacted positive to the skin prick test a couple of years ago but the more accurate blood test afterward indicated she was free of TB.
Monday morning UPDATE: Vets just left. All girls tested negative. |
MaryJane Butters, author of Milk Cow Kitchen ~ striving for the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain ~ |
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Ron
4666 Posts
Ronnie
Peever
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Posted - Sep 08 2014 : 10:52:44 AM
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| ( dreaming ) a vet that has farm calls............what a wonderful thing. :) |
With a moo moo here and a moo moo there, here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo moo. |
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NellieBelle
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Posted - Sep 08 2014 : 11:11:09 AM
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| Outstanding. So nice to have so much done at one time. Such gorgeous animals. Not quite that organized here. Just had Nellie's TB test done, (negative), Sienna was in the pasture at the time and no way to do it out in pasture, so I have to get the vet back to do TB test on Sienna. We are a TB/Brucellosis free state. Just feel better knowing, especially if others want to use our milk. |
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine. Author Unknown |
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Ron
4666 Posts
Ronnie
Peever
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Posted - Sep 08 2014 : 11:54:12 AM
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| All my cows originated from Iowa and it is nice to know you are getting a healthy cow. We have to load up the animals and take them an hour and a half in the trailer to see the vet. So very stress filled for them. |
With a moo moo here and a moo moo there, here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo moo. |
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NellieBelle
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Posted - Sep 08 2014 : 12:12:52 PM
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| We don't own a trailer. May have to purchase one someday, but our two vets are willing to come here and care for them. I did have to take a heifer a couple of years ago for surgery, I held her while my husband drove. I could write a book on our dairy herd adventures. :) |
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Ron
4666 Posts
Ronnie
Peever
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Posted - Sep 08 2014 : 2:21:11 PM
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| Well maybe some articles or short stories. I would love to read them as I am sure others would as well. |
With a moo moo here and a moo moo there, here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo moo. |
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maryjane
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Posted - Sep 08 2014 : 5:01:37 PM
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Here's how I kept track of everything.
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MaryJane Butters, author of Milk Cow Kitchen ~ striving for the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain ~ |
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NellieBelle
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Posted - Sep 08 2014 : 5:18:45 PM
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| I can see where that would certainly help. I keep the vet's sheet of what's been done and what's been used. I should probably keep them all together in a file instead of the file my husband puts them in, as I always have to go through each month to find the papers. Thanks MJ. I need to set things up so the vet can get as much done as he can in one trip. Sometimes that works, sometimes not. But I will see if we can't get things more organized so I know what's going on when. |
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maryjane
7074 Posts
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Posted - Sep 08 2014 : 5:25:03 PM
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| When I get more than two shakes of a lamb's tail, I want to share details about the new (and different from what I've been using) vaccines I used. |
MaryJane Butters, author of Milk Cow Kitchen ~ striving for the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain ~ |
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NellieBelle
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Posted - Sep 08 2014 : 5:41:23 PM
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| That's why the chatroom is so valuable, you break new ground for the rest of us. There's so much to learn. |
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine. Author Unknown |
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Ron
4666 Posts
Ronnie
Peever
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Posted - Sep 08 2014 : 6:28:16 PM
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That is such a wonderful system it almost hurts my head to think about it. With all the technology I am still using the old bound cow books and a pen!
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With a moo moo here and a moo moo there, here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo moo. |
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