10/01/09, 10:10 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NC
Posts: 855
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cow with large lumpy mass
I have read and appreciated so many of your stories and advice I thought I had best share our latest ....I went to see my cows last night, all are beef cows and all are due to calve again in a month...I took them some over ripe pears...they are really like pets, since there are only 6 of them ...anyway...when our favorite one, and best cow( 3 years old) turned around I realized that she had a large mass protruding from the vulva....not good...not a calf, not really bleeding but lumpy and gross.....I got the hose and cleaned it off...nothing interferes with her eating.....we ended up loading her up, taking her to the barn where we could get her in the headgate, and called the vet, even though I was pretty sure what the outcome would be......the vet didn't know what it was, but after a consult with another older vet they decided that it was a herniated area of the vaginal lining..which had formed a hard, large mass. this was at least 8 inches in diameter...she would never be able to calve around that.....too early to take the calf....so she has gone to slaughter....hard decisions sometimes for those of us with only a few cows...and sad when it is one that is soo good...beautiful and easy to work with...I gave her a chocolate chip cookie to get her on the trailer...I take some comfort in knowing that she didn't die trying to have her calf, and that this is an unusual thing to happen....has anyone else ever seen this?..certainly one time is enough for me...now to tell my college son, this one was his special cow...
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