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For those who ready my article in The Cow Barn section of the last issue of Countryside and Small Stock Journal, I included a photograph a Mamma - a Holstein thought to be 18-years-old. She was just being left to continue to grow old on the farm, rather than being sent to the dog food plant.
On Monday I noticed a very large, black, solid mass at her virgina. Vet confirmed it was melonomia (sp? - skin cancer). While he was willing to operate, it would have been expensive to have done and extremely hard to keep flies off of afterwards. Decision was made to put her down and she was buried on the farm yesterday. I had to call a neighbor to come over and put her down. I just couldn't pull the trigger.
I had owned her for ten plus years and she was already a mature cow when I purchased her with a group of seven others, most Brahman-crosses. She was the last of the group.
RIP old girl.
Ken S. in WC TN
On Monday I noticed a very large, black, solid mass at her virgina. Vet confirmed it was melonomia (sp? - skin cancer). While he was willing to operate, it would have been expensive to have done and extremely hard to keep flies off of afterwards. Decision was made to put her down and she was buried on the farm yesterday. I had to call a neighbor to come over and put her down. I just couldn't pull the trigger.
I had owned her for ten plus years and she was already a mature cow when I purchased her with a group of seven others, most Brahman-crosses. She was the last of the group.
RIP old girl.
Ken S. in WC TN