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Post by chuckie on Nov 21, 2019 14:33:07 GMT -6
The cow's eye looks about the same. I looked in the eye again to see if there was more obvious signs of something still in the eye. I could not see anything. She is definitely sore from having had 6 injections of LA300, with 10cc in each site; but she ate well. If she continues to look the same after the medication I gave her, I will take her to the vet.
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Post by tcranch on Nov 21, 2019 18:48:59 GMT -6
Yesterday morning when I got her up, the eye was less cloudy as a whole, but still had a white film coating. In the center of her eye, it appeared to be a definite white center. I could not find anything in her eye. She was given 60cc of LA300, as I am not sure what she weighs. My cows are larger framed and in good condition. I also had some pink eye wash that is supposed to be soothing. I also made a 1/2 solution of honey and distilled water and squirted that in the eye. I read several sites about honey used in the eye, and it reported that it worked. I usually feed at 1:00 p.m. each day here at the house and am anxious to see how she is doing. Thanks for all the input given. I will give another report on her after I feed. The hay this year was not what I wanted it to be. We had a high chance of rain each week, and often it did rain. Very wet conditions kept us out of the hayfield and the hay had a little bit of stemmy Johnson grass in places. I feel that it might have contributed to her eye injury. I hope this next season will not be so wet that we can spray the Johnson grass. It is a field of Vaughn's Bermuda, and does real well when we can get in the field every 30 days. We only got two cuttings that went way past the 30 day growth with fertilizer. So the protein is lower than ideal. It really bothers me to feed crap hay that is pretty much a filler. Once the Bermuda goes over the 30 days it is pretty much a filler. I am supplementing protein with the hay with Distillers grain and Supreme Mineral with Rumensin from Tennessee Farmers Co-op. I do hope that this will be the only eye injury that I have. Johnson grass is the bane of my existence. On the one hand, they love to graze it. On the other there's always the potential terror of prussic acid poisoning and even when we try to kill it in the fields prior to cutting hay, it's like a dang cockroach & half the time won't die. Subsequently we always end up with a few stemmy bales - hence the eye abrasions. When we're feeling flush with hay we simply roll out the stemmy bales so they can pick though it but that's not always an option. That said, it takes a few days for the cloudy/white to clear and as long as you don't see an ulcer she should be good to go with the LA. Honey & distilled water is a new one for me but as long as you're flushing the eye without anything abrasive it can't hurt.
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Post by chuckie on Nov 21, 2019 19:44:54 GMT -6
She has a more concentrated white circle in the center of the eye. But there is no sign of it forming an ulcer. I got right up to her face to see if I could see anything in the center of it, and could not. I just hope that tomorrow that it will begin to heal more from the LA300. It really bugs me when I have a sick animal.
My pasture has Johnson grass in it, but I never see it as it is probably the second thing they graze after the clover. They love the stuff.
The Vaughns makes really good hay and they eat it like candy. You never have to worry about them not cleaning the hay up.
I just wish that each year all things would fall into place for the hay.
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Post by chuckie on Nov 23, 2019 11:17:36 GMT -6
Yesterday, the eye was still cloudy with a small white spot in the center. She was able to hold her eye open as it did not seem to be hurting her like it was before. I am almost afraid to put a patch over the eye if it has something inside it. I think that maybe it will work it's way out if there is nothing holding her eye shut. But it has been complete cloud cover since it happened.
How much can a vet do when there is a foreign body in the eye? Are they capable of removing something without tearing the eye up?
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Post by angusrancher on Nov 23, 2019 21:29:32 GMT -6
Yesterday, the eye was still cloudy with a small white spot in the center. She was able to hold her eye open as it did not seem to be hurting her like it was before. I am almost afraid to put a patch over the eye if it has something inside it. I think that maybe it will work it's way out if there is nothing holding her eye shut. But it has been complete cloud cover since it happened. How much can a vet do when there is a foreign body in the eye? Are they capable of removing something without tearing the eye up? Does it look like the first picture? www.merckvetmanual.com/eye-diseases-and-disorders/infectious-keratoconjunctivitis/overview-of-infectious-keratoconjunctivitis
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Post by chuckie on Nov 24, 2019 10:25:58 GMT -6
Angusrancher, her eye is not that bad. There is no redness to the eye, just the white covering, but not so thick that I cannot see her eye below. The white spot in the center of her eye is about the 1/4" in diameter. The two eyes you posted look pretty bad. Mostly the yellow centered one. Thanks for posting these!!
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Post by chuckie on Nov 24, 2019 10:58:36 GMT -6
After reading the article about Pink eye, I am not so sure that is what it is. We no longer have any flies. I had one cow to get pink eye this summer, and gave all the cows a pink eye shot to help prevent it from spreading. I am not sure if it had been in their system long enough, but all of them did get shots of LA 300. The cow that had pink eye healed quickly. She only had a small area of her eye that looked milky and never did form a completely white surface to her eye.
I have only 18 head here at the house, and the others are at two other farms. So, each time I go out, I look them over pretty good each day.
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Post by chuckie on Nov 29, 2019 16:35:53 GMT -6
Seems the cows are getting so close in the feed trough, that they spread the pink eye. The first cow's eye had cleared up a bit but still had the white center. Then her dam had a very small amount of white showing up, but not covering the whole eye yet. She was holding it shut. The other just had an occasional tear that would drip. To be safe, I gave her a shot as well. Gave each cow a shot of Draxxin and will see how that goes.
I will just have to keep a close eye on the herd.
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Post by tcranch on Nov 29, 2019 17:28:06 GMT -6
True pinkeye can spread fast but you're on it!
I noticed one of my girls had an eye that was totally red the other day. Assumed she got poked by a stemmy bale or branch in the woods, sprayed with Vetericyn and decided to watch her a couple days. Sure enough, the red is subsiding, kind of pooled at the bottom of her eye. If you've ever burst a vessel in your eye you know what I'm talking about. Will keep an eye on her (no pun intended) but benign neglect, as Dun would say.
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Post by chuckie on Nov 29, 2019 19:52:50 GMT -6
tcranch, I hope your cow's eye gets better.
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Post by chuckie on Dec 1, 2019 9:23:32 GMT -6
Yesterday when I fed, the cow that was getting early stages of pink eye, was holding her eye wide open after giving a shot of Draxxin the day before. Before, the eye was starting to develop a white film and she would not hold the eye open very long at a time. I watched her for a bit to see if she was just paying a lot of attention as they do when you go to the barn to feed. As she ate, her eye was wide open and not running. The original cow with pink eye, the white surface was becoming clearer, and the spot had grown smaller. Then the cow that had one eye running, was clear.
Each cow was given 12cc of Draxxin. The cows are large and really good condition, so I told the vet to figure 2000 lbs worth per shot. I may have been a little over, but I had rather be over than to short the dosage. I now know to go straight to Draxxin if pink eye shows back up. It is an expensive medication, but puts them on the mend. The shot gives up to 14 days of healing power.
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