I need advice about a Jersey with Ketosis.

[Genevieve M.]

Our Jersey calved a week ago. She has always been only grass fed, and is 3 years old. This is her second calving.

3 days ago,I noticed that I could smell ketones in her milk and breath. We started giving her 4 oz of propylene glycol twice a day. We are giving her such a small amount because she is small, even for a Jersey.

We have been hand feeding her oats, barley and BOSS 3 times a day. I've also tried giving her cut up corn on the cob, apples and carrots. She does not really want to eat those.

She is giving over 5 gallons a day, even though we are not milking her completely out. The poor thing just keeps getting thinner.

I don't want to mess up her rumen by giving her too much propylene glycol or increasing her grain too quickly, but I really want her to get better soon.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Farm 36]

Get a bottle of dextrose and put that under her skin in the neckin 3 or 4 locations use a new needdle and be clean. Dextrose can make a abcesses faily easy that is why the neck . Feed her the best forages that you can find that she will eat .She needs to to be fed because she has ketosis from making more milk than she is eating. I always milk my cows all the way out because mastitis seems to creat more problems but this each to his own opinion