Cattle Health

It first hit in the mid 1900s.

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: Scrapie in sheep and Mad Cow disease (or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)

None, unless that cow is showing some sign if illness. Don't treat the symptoms, treat the actual disease.

No. Anthrax bacteria is killed through the process of pasteurization. Milk would not be drunk either from a cow that has died of anthrax.

Depending on how severe the cut is - if not very jagged and deep - use antibiotic ointment on it daily. Apply a small amount to the cut. You could also get some cleanser from your local vet to wash it. If it starts to show signs of infection (red, pus, itchy, swelling) please take the mouse to the vet for professional care. Also, if the cut doesn't heal in a good amount of time, then it is time to see a vet.

Mice and rats heal quite nicely from skin wounds because they often have to fight for teritory in the wild. Often, they won't even seem to notice the wound because their skin doesn't have as many nerves, so it doesn't hurt like when we get a cut.

Good luck!

Usually a farrier. This is a person who is trained to shoe horses. They have to be taught to do this a certain way as not to hurt the horses feet.

If you stop milking a cow, the udder will get really big, but will not explode. The milk will slowly diminish and the udder will get back to normal size after a while, and she will not be giving milk any more. Of course, to get her to start milking again, she will need to give birth to another calf. However, you can get her back milking again if you start milking before she completely dries up, but she will likely be producing less than initially.

To the best of current scientific knowledge, no, but this has been identified as an area of concern and any offspring of a confirmed BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) case in a female cow are also tested to verify the prion was not transmitted during pregnancy.

Well I don't know if there are ten "These Are The Signs Of Poor Health In A Cow" but there are a lot of things you can look for that would indicate that the cow is not healthy. - Sunken eyes.

- Dull or hopeless look in the eyes

- Not looking around, disinterested in surroundings.

- Off food, not eating normally. If in a paddock or stall with access to hay, not eating, resting or chewing cud but standing doing nothing.

- Disinterest in other cattle.

- Soiled tail, large amount of manure not just on the part of the tail that brushes over the anus but dribbled down the length of the tail (this would indicate that she is not using the tail or even bothering to raise it out of the way when she poos)

- Skin stretched tight over bones

- Very thin, ribs and pelvis stand out

- Refuses to suckle calf

- Shrivelled udder (on a dry cow)

- Physical symptoms eg. diarrhoea, raised temperature

- No rumenal sounds heard when you hold a stethoscope against her side

- Dull, lifeless coat that falls away when you stroke or rub it firmly

Most of these are common sense signs. To see the more subtle indicators that a cow is not healthy, you really need expert training (ie. vet.)

Johnes' disease is caused by Mycobacterium aviumsubspecies paratuberculosis. It is a chronic disease of the intestinal wall that causes pipestream diarrhea in the face of a good appetite; the cattle end up wasting away due to malabsorption diarrhea and effective starvation. Most producers will cull the cow for production reasons before it gets too bad; these animals are often taken to slaughter. The good news is, the meat from these animals does not contain the bacterium, so there is no risk to humans.

No. But wild cow milking is considered a sport in rodeo events, where a team of guys and or gals have to rope and wrassle a wild cow (quite often a beef cow that hasn't had much human contact) so that they can get some milk from her.

Yes, and a lot of them do.

Who says we don't? Of course we do, we use antibiotics almost as much and for the same reasons as our neighbors to the south of us do, except that we don't feed antibiotics to our dairy cows. With beefers, antibiotics are, just like our southerly neighbors, used to treat sick animals or as a means to increase feed efficiency and average daily gain in our feedlot cattle.

No. Vaccination can prevent blackleg in your cattle herd, not a donkey. A donkey will only be as good as protecting baby calves from predators like coyotes, stray dogs, wolves, etc.

what does st elve, probable normal early repol pattern mean and left ventricucular hypertrophy mean

• Bluetongue disease is a non-contagious and insect-borne disease of ruminants, mainly sheep and less frequently cattle, goats, buffalo, and deer.
• It is caused by the Bluetongue virus (BTV).
• Major signs are high fever, excessive salivation, swelling of the face and tongue and cyanosis of the tongue. Swelling of the lips and tongue gives the tongue its typical blue appearance, though this sign is confined to a minority of the animals. Nasal symptoms may be prominent, with nasal discharge and stertorous respiration.

* extreme starvation * dietary protein deficiency * liver disease (interfer with protein synthesis) * kidney disease (protein loss through urine) * severe burns (protein loss through body surface) * loss of proteins due to significant transudation (or exudation)

Rigor mortis is dependent on ATP in order for it to occur. However the anthrax bacilli have a toxin called edema factor or calmodulin dependent adenylate cyclase, which is a toxin that inhibits the stiffening of muscles by constantly stimulating the release of cAMP, so that the cAMP level in body is never low. Thus even after death it supplies the muscles with adequate cAMP to be relaxed, even after a prolonged period.

Not unless you know the reason you're giving the human-only medicine to them is. If you're having to ask this question, then the obvious answer should be no.

Nope. Besides, cow-tipping is an urban myth, and something that is impossible to do, even at the dead of night.

How many cc's of what?? Penicilin? LA200? Nuflor? Ivermectin? Please be more specific when asking these kinds of questions!!

There are three main causes of cows teats becoming blocked. These are: Injury, mastitis, and inherited. Injury and mastitis are both the most common reasons. They are painful and can be prevented.

no

Bovine traumatic reticuloperitonitis is the correct medical terminology for hardware disease in cows.

Talk to your veterinarian about this. There are many drugs out there to battle multisystemic infection in calves (or Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis), it depends on where you are located and what you can purchase at either the feed store or from your large animal vet.