If he gets droopy again I'll check his temp and maybe try one of the others next time. (I gave him the first round with those two when I initially found him without temping) 102.9 That's when I gave him the LA and banamine. I did take his temp once, the first time he got droopy acting after getting them up. If it will stay cool like yesterday maybe we're done with the flies. He's jigging around and bucking some now, so maybe he will come around.
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I'm keeping them up until the skin is healed, so I can keep it medicated. He has been feeling much better, although he looks like hell with the raw places. Although he always was alert, had his head up and looking around and not necessarily droopy looking, when I checked him I think he might have been a little under the weather and maybe that's why he stayed in the brush so much. I've got his spots covered in the ointment. He doesn't show a lot of interest after just a little milk. He took about a third of a bottle tonight. Maybe he stayed out so much that Momma couldn't keep him licked properly. He has been staying outside the hot wire a lot, more times than not. That's what is so odd to me that with the cool weather, and he's as old as he is. He's a week old today, so he's been sucking and up and moving a while now. Momma cleaned him up, at least it looked like she did. I lay eyes on all on them at least once a day, but if he's laying down I may just drive on by and not make him get up, if his head is up and paying attention. Sometimes it takes a good while to find one, and sometimes don't, if the cow won't even move that way or look. I've got a hot wire around a lot of the pasture that leaves a grass edge between it and the woods that those little ones like to get in to lay down.
Not as often as I like, but I make it a point to find all of them and see that they are alive and doing ok (head up when I get close, and not skinny from a no milk condition when I can). Sometime week before last it's been in the seventies/eighties. We've been cool for a little while here now. Any experience with this, or thoughts about it? Sorry it turned out so lengthy, but I wanted to present all I could remember.
Wife gets back and we bath him, and treat his bare hide/raw spots with a neosporin-like cream. He does attempt to crap again, out comes a small was of stuff,mineral oil, I assume, along with a trace amount of bloody color, and maggots-dead. I get back to the barn and there is not one maggot alive that I can detect on him, including in/out of his rear.
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I had went to finish checking cows, plus LOOK at all the calves to check for this problem on them. My wife went to town to get some supplies: more screw worm, iodine, soap and to the house for another bottle for him. I gave him some LA300, sprayed him down with screw worm spray, dousing him with it, and gave him about a 6cc enema of mineral oil, in case he was constipated, and gave him a bottle of milk which he drank half. I looked at his rear end, thinking he may be constipated, and I was pretty sure there were maggots in and out of him. He did this regularly, with no feces, just basically gassy. He said yes, many times, and to spray him down with screw worm spray. Called Dad to see if he had seen this before. I get them to the barn and attempt to wash the maggots off, along with some hair coming off too. I first initially noticed some areas where the hair was off, some places down to meat, but then I noticed he was COVERED in maggots from between his shoulder blades, along his back to his a-hole. Ordinarily, I may have just drove on, but with the circumstances leading up the this I decided I better look him over. I get down there and the calf in laying in the dry wash bed looking at me. The last time was yesterday morning I believe. I have had a cow keeping her calf down there a while, basically since it was born a week ago. I looked that way and there was a coyote down there, across the wash in the next pasture. Much closer than usual, all looking south. I was checking cows this morning and when I rode over the hill there was a group of cows/calves in a wad. I'm experiencing another first and looking for some treatment ideas or just opinions/advice.
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