: actual cow question

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She is in good shape,

is still full of herself, doesn’t let anyone push her around. She is not

puffy anywhere else. She is a small cow, island style jersey. The udder does not

feel like edema. It is not tight, not warm, and seems to be slowly getting softer,

but her production is not what we have always gotten.

www.majestyfarm.com

Sometimes I

wonder whether the world is being run by smart

people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

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Re: actual cow question

May be she is just at the end of her productive life, that's getting

pretty old. Sounds just like one of the older cows at the dairy when

she was about same age and calved for the last time. Wear and tear,

gravity, takes it toll. What causes pitting edema (not caused by

any pathogen, not matitis)is where the veinous system can't return

what the arterial system has put there. Other things that can cause

it are congestive heart failure and parasite overload. With either

one, fluids will gather at lower points of body. When I get a chance

later I'll upload a file on udder edema.

Donna

Safehaven Nubians

Dandridge, TN

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> I have an actual cow management question.

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> I have an older cow (16 yo) on my line that calved 1 week ago, and

for the

> first time ever has a hard-ish udder, and is producing very little

milk.

> Milk tests fine, is tasty, but her udder feels congested, but not

warm, and

> she acts fine. She has always been a good milker, but this is a

weird

> situation. Will love to hear what others think.

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> www.MajestyFarm.com

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> If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without

> bloodshed, if you will not fight when victory will be sure and not

so

> costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with

all the

> odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There

may be a

> worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of

victory,

> because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

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> Winston Churchill

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