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SOLD!!!!!!! Kosmo is in her first lactation, calved sometime in January. 2ish yo Jersey/Holstein, Giving 3ish gallons a day on grass, hay and at milking gets barley and alfalfa pellets. Open and ready to breed to the bull of your choice! No mastitis, very high and tight udder. Stands like a...

They probably won't chew on em.. but they will more then likely scratch on em!

Here;s some updated pics. We're basically just in a holding pattern, waiting to see how this all goes. I also plan to get her sleeved to see how her insides are, and if she is breedable. Other then all that, she's happy, healthy and feisty as ever :)

Another update! Sweet Pea is doing wonderfully..bright eyed, slicked out and mischevious :D The only "treatment" she is getting now is 2 droppers of Oil of Oregano 2x day. Its a 2 person operation to get it in her, I gotta pinch her nose while DH squirts the stuff in her mouth, but she's better...

Don't worry be happy couldn't resist, sorry :lol:

I will second the higher feed conversion on Holsteins... I have one cow, 1/2 Jersey 1/2 Holstein and my oh my can she put away some food :th She easily eats 2x the amount of my pure Jersey cow. Its insane and the feed bill shows a difference. I only have 3 cows and Honey eats the same amount...

Just wanted to get an update posted... Sweet Pea is doing VERY well...if you don't consider her udder issues. She's bright eyed, slicking out nicely and eating like there's no tomorrow. The ruptured rear quarter is healing very nicely. We're flushing it 2x a day with warm saline solution and...

This stuff is pretty fascinating.. gross but fascinating :lol: This mornings pictures... So.. yall remember me mentioning left front quarter was just doing nothing but sitting there, filled w/some sorta somethin? Guess what I saw this morning? That indicates SOME kind of healing.. the...

Thanks for fixin that, WRB!! Anything is possible, at this point..I wish I had xray type vision so I could really know whats goin on in there!!!! Any yes.. much grosseness! LOL! Here are tonights photos.. I can't tell, just by looking and feeling, if the quarter truly had an abccess in the...

Interesting article..shows graphics and explains the how the whole udder works.. pretty interesting. http://agriculture .kzntl.gov.za/publications/production_guidelines/dairying_in_natal/dairy6_1.htm I was trying to find good graphics and an explanation of what I was seeing, if infact, the...

The reason I didn't give any systemic antibiotics was that the infection was isolated in the udder. She never showed signs of going systemic once the initial inflamation went down. I kept an eye on her overall health, temp and went with my gut. Don't get me wrong, she looked to be coming close...

manybirds.. successfully, I don't know. If she heals up alright, from this, I'll be breeding her this summer and I reckon we'll know next year how it all goes. Hank-told ya :lol:

I have no clue...its possible it was none, its possible it took everything with it... :idunno Maybe the mass built up in the udder cistern and pushed everything out of the way? Or it encapsulated everything and all thats left is the supportive tissue worm lookin thingy (Which I was able to...

Actually.. the solid mass did.. but I DO suspect the infection had been going on for awhile...and it seems once we hit her with the intramammary antibiotics, the mass formed and solidified. It was very spongy.. like spongy cheese :sick :gig

So now that I've got it all posted, I hope it helps someone in the future. :thumbsup

So even though things are pretty much over and done with and this cow is recovering, I'm going to start things from the beginning. I want to post this for educational/informational purposes, because its not seen very often and I hope others can learn something from all this. 4ishyo Jersey cow...

Em, my bad.... just call me dodo, I didn't even think of PM'ing one of yall :hide :lol: Alright, I'll post the saga.. its gonna take awhile to get it all together and get the pictures all posted, so I'll work on it over the next day or so. And I will make sure and put Graphic in the subject...

So I've been dealing with a pretty nasty mastitis in one of my Jersey cows. While treatment is done and we're basically in limbo waiting on the healing process.. I thought it might be a good informational post for this section. The "issue" is it is very graphic in nature, picture wise, towards...

Sorry yall have had such crappy luck with Charolais... I've been happy with the ones at this farm, the bulls were great.. very respectful and non aggressive, and the cows were good mothers and made some beautiful calves. I'd have a whole herd of Charolais if I could afford it

That is a nice lookin bull!! I'm interested to see what the cross produces. Cross color genetics in cattle escapes me.. but its so cool seeing some of the resulting colored calves. I'm really hoping for a brindle from my Jersey, she's bred to a black Simmental.