A healthy cow, delicious milk

Most cow diseases associated with udder befall summer. For the summer usually falls during lactation, the summer is easier to pick up the infection, damage the papilla share, overheat, supercooled in the cold water reservoir. And then there's insects, snakes, injury... In this review, we consider the basic disease of the udder and show you how to deal with them.

Rare owner of the cow did not face swelling of the udder. Udder swells, tumor extends above the drain and towards the sternum. The udder becomes tight and somehow lifeless to the touch, cold. Milk does not deteriorate, is edible, but may become less bold. Cow significantly "diminish" - it is possible to milk 8-10 instead of 20 liters per day. Typically, the udder swells after calving.

Very often, the swelling go by themselves or after several times to drink cow dill water. To help the nurse, it is necessary to prescribe her a special mode:

♦ give as little salt or do not give at all;

♦ feed only quality hay;

♦ not give fodder concentrates and high;

♦ translate cow in a separate room;

♦ give less water;

♦ increase the number of trips.

♦ If these measures do not help, then the vet usually prescribe injections that lead to normal pressure and blood flow to the udder.

The most common and dangerous disease of the udder cow - this, of course, mastitis. The start udder inflammation, cow bad milk becomes inedible, the amount thereof is reduced.

There are several forms and types of mastitis. Sometimes the disease is in a latent form, and recognize it can only be a veterinarian, and only with the help of tests. Udder with clinical mastitis looks something like this:

The udder is swollen, red, becomes tight, hard right. Milk appears blood clots, resembling cottage cheese or purulent discharge. In general, any change in the usual structure of the milk should be alerted.

What to do? Be sure to contact your veterinarian, he will prescribe antibiotics to the animal. Do not drink milk: it is likely infected. And do not neglect to folk remedies: compresses, massage with camphor oil, medicinal drink and frequent milking.

Etanol (User FORUMHOUSE):

I know one thing is quite effective means of mastitis - a compress made from starch and vegetable oil. Making pulp and apply to the affected shares of udder

Katusepapi (User FORUMHOUSE):

Dill water + massage and milking - is what I remember of the life in the village as a child.

It happens that a good cow suddenly becomes tugodoykoy: milked until all hands Unwind. And the cow is sick, and the owners are nervous. Palpate the problematic share of the udder, perhaps you will find there, right in the canal, which supplies milk, specific packing. This is usually due to an infection, improper milking (for example, the proportion is not fully milked). In fact, the case can be a bad thing: the channel will soon completely clogged. So do not loiter, call the vet, massage the udder with ichthyol ointment (or camphor), wipe it with a solution of soda, impose soft bandages.

Not less common and opposite problem. Many people probably have seen: there is the village herd, and many of the cows udder directly drip trickle of milk. Here helps a daily, long, for 10-15 minutes, massage the top of each share of the udder (the tip of the nipple as though rubbed between the fingers, rubbing them in 2% iodine ointment). Also, the tip of the teat is immersed in medical collodion, but just for a few minutes.

Olga Bukin (User FORUMHOUSE):

Weak cows are not very popular, so only live on the stake near the house or even in the pen. Milking it must often, otherwise such lie, the udder is compressed, and below them a puddle of milk.

It so happens that the cow comes from the pasture to the injury of the udder. The shepherd did not doglyadel and animal hit the low bush, stone, stump... It's okay if injury small - it will soon pass. And if the udder palpated seal on it visible bruises, if the cow apparently hurt when trying to milk it (it is possible that the blood will appear in the milk), it is necessary to start treatment.

As soon as you suspect injury, lubricate it with a solution of iodine (5%). Two days to the injury need to apply ice packs and snow, cold lotions do. Then apply heat. If during milking appear clots, injured enter in proportion weak soda solution, massage, after 20 minutes sdaivayte.

Well, if the injury is serious, even in appearance, immediately call your veterinarian - perhaps the cow will require surgery.

But the injury - it's not so bad. Much worse when the cow directly into udder or viper bites wasp and it becomes downright stone. owners often can not handle e this trouble, and even high yielding cows sent to slaughter.

Rectify the situation can be, if respond immediately. A few days later may be too late. If there is no special veterinary drugs, give a cow man suprastin - there are many cases where it helped. It is possible to make an injection of diphenhydramine (5 mL). You can put candles on the basis of this drug and similar smear udder ointments.

A veterinarian should be called every time a serious case, even if you consider yourself an expert in the treatment of animals.

But in general, each owner of the cow must be special preparations for intramuscular injection. Good reviews, for example, drugs containing dexamethasone. More: on, so veterinarians often prescribe antibiotics additionally snake bite or insect infection are often similar to relieve edema (eg Penex). To bring the temperature down, or give Ketovet Aynil.

Be sure to call the vet. Generally, a specialist should be called in any serious way, even if you consider yourself an expert in the treatment of animals. And in this situation, especially - there have been cases of code cow could not save.

Camphor ointment and any warming contraindicated smear again - because of the increased blood flow.

Folk remedies - frequent Forestripping and cold compresses - only accelerate the treatment prescribed by a veterinarian. Importantly, do not smear udder camphor ointment.

boils the cow usually appear also in the summer, during lactation. They are easy to recognize: so dense, reddish, inflamed bumps with the hair root in the heart. Then hide the icon is not particularly necessary to: monitor the cleanliness of the affected area, to handle it ihtiolkoy and iodine. As the maturation of boils opened and treated with penicillin, and so to do, until they disappear completely.

Warts (also known as papillomas) on the udder is not as harmless as it seems - with time they can be reborn in a benign tumor.

Olga Bukin:

Weak cows are not very popular, so only live on the stake near the house or even in the pen. Milking it must often, otherwise such lie, the udder is compressed, and below them a puddle of milk.

At the vets have a vaccine against the pathogen papillomas, so be sure to contact them. People's method in this case is similar to witchcraft, but many people believe: it is necessary to pull out of the cow's tail hairs and tie them to the wart.

Rare summer complete without anxiety because of the cow: that befall one, then another. Have to worry a lot less if the wash is good udder before every milking and be sure to wipe dry clean cloth udder grease special emollient from cracks and fissures after milking grease solution iodine.

If you are always fully to milk every share of the udder, to make sure that the cow spent the night on a dry (!) Litter, and in the stall was clean, it will be the best prevention.

And just fire - hold in "animal" timpanol medicine cabinet, vodka, activated carbon, percutaneous, levomekol, troksevazin, cefazolin, syringes, peroxide, iodine, alcohol and water for injection. Do not interfere as tests for mastitis and funds from mastitis.

Kondrat (User FORUMHOUSE):

I have in my medicine cabinet - Mustin, Mastisan and Mastiet forte - Four syringe just in case; if there are signs of mastitis, run on pharmacies will be too late.

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