Darned good old cow to come back that heavily into milk after being almost starved. Keep feeding her, get a vet on that teat and get your papers. I'd worm her, too, even if I had to feed some milk to the pigs. She should bring you several good calves before she is too old to tango. I hope you have a warm shelter for her this winter. She does not have a lot of fat to keep her warm.

I don't see too much worry about Johnes Disease since you don't mention scours and I see no signs of it in the pictures.

If she is open and on full feed you should soon see a marked improvement in her condition.

Cydectin Pour-On has no milk withdrawal if you are going to worm her.

AverageJo, call me a skeptic, but are you sure that is the right image? It shows it was taken back in June 2003.

http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/z...arMetaData.jpg

I'm guessing the camera is just not set correctly. I am not worried about proving anything, I know the condition of Pear when I got her. Two horses could easily keep cows away from a round bale and by the way Pear acts around our horse. She was proly just getting ran off the food. I have 3 cows and one horse and I STILL put out 3 round bales to make sure EVERYONE can eat. :)
I posted some latest pics of her at keeping a family cow, she is really improving. Putting on weight AND giving 5+gals. per day.

LIberty wool - keep in mind the time your data shows and the angle of the sun and shadows on the cow in the background. A little background observation shows the picture could not have been taken at 11:30 am. The angle of the sun is too low. In my opinion it is a morning picture taken between 7:00-7:30am. Plus if in fact it was taken the first week of June, the grass in the background would be much more lush and abundant and not too many poeple are feeding hay that time of the year in northern Illinois.

First off I would like to appolgize to Marc and his family. I was just making a for instense comment as to why he may have said the heifer was out int he pasture. Please accept my appolgies.
Next yes I will agree a pudge like that will only come from cow serves. They really grow with that kind of milk.
LW
Marc is not far below me. Given the time of yr and such that is a recent pic.

Now it seems all is calming down and things came to light and been explained.
Can we stop
:bdh:
And move on
Jill and Marc may still have a few things to iron out amongst themselves. So lets let them be.
Bob

Amen!

Both Catherine (Average_Jo) and Jill are good friends of mine and I think under other circumstances would be good friends together. I am so sorry this has happened to both parties. Neither are the type to make up stories or be vindictive.

Summer of 2010 we sent our little bull calf to Marc & Catherine's place because he just wasn't thriving here. We were certain that with Marc's knowledge and some good milk he would put on weight and thrive. Which he has. That same summer, Marc asked to graze some of his cattle at our place since his pastures were wearing thin (it was a hot, dry summer last year.)

Marc has a very wry sense of humor and speaks very loud. I can see where Jill might have been intimidated by him. He doesn't mean any harm, in fact, he is a very tenderhearted man, still, he can be intimidating without meaning to be.

I don't believe for a minute that Jill posted this thread for any other reason than what she said in her OP. She needed help and asked for it. The negative postings came from other folks, not Jill.

We did receive a sealed envelope from Marc & Catherine in the mail yesterday to forward on to Jill.