If you have cows on your farm, you should know everything about the diseases that can affect the animal and the methods of first aid before the arrival of a specialist. Only a veterinary specialist can treat a cow for any disease. Only with some minor injuries, a specialist can not be called and can be dispensed with on his own.
Instructions
Step 1
If the animal is injured, there is an open wound on the body and blood is flowing, first it must be stopped, a clean cloth moistened with hydrogen peroxide, 10% calcium chloride or turpentine should be applied to the wound. Then cut the wool around the wound and spread it with pungent-smelling preparations: iodoform, creolin, lysol, tar. This is done to scare away insects. First aid supplies for a cow should always be present in your home medicine cabinet.
Step 2
If the cow has a severe bruise, you need to apply a hot water bottle with ice, cut the hair on the entire bruise area, smear with creolin or lysol. For faster absorption, rub with iodine and petroleum jelly or camphor oil with turpentine.
Step 3
When feeding a cow with unmilled vegetables, a blockage of the esophagus occurs. A cow cannot regurgitate food that has been eaten. If food is stuck in the upper part of the esophagus, you need to induce an eructation by pouring a bottle of vegetable oil into your mouth, pulling on the tongue. If the measures taken are ineffective, you need to get the stuck object with your hand. Vegetables can get stuck in the lower part of the esophagus, then immediately call your veterinarian, he will clear the esophagus with a probe.
Step 4
When the scar is swollen, if the cow has overeat or ate poor-quality food, it is necessary to do an intensive massage of the scar on the left and start chasing the cow, all this is done before the arrival of a specialist, since without immediately taken measures the animal will die in 2 hours. The veterinarian will puncture the scar.
Step 5
Postpartum paresis may occur 12 hours after calving. The cow is trembling, worried. It is necessary to milk the milk and blow air into the nipples with the Evers device. Spread the whole cow with ammonia. Do not water the animal for 12 hours. Then give water in small portions.
Step 6
A common disease is mastitis. It happens for many reasons: poor care, cold floor, frequent milk skipping. In the presence of mastitis in the milk of a cow, cheesy flakes appear, and there may even be blood. Treatment: milking every 2-3 hours, massage the udder, smear the udder with ichthyol ointment, camphor or iodine ointment. In the future, improve the maintenance of the animal and milking quickly in 4-6 minutes, otherwise mastitis will be again.
Step 7
At the hotel, if the afterbirth has not departed, you must immediately call the veterinarian.
Step 8
And then there is the terrible disease leukemia. Before grazing cows, blood is taken from them to identify this infectious disease. If available, the cow is slaughtered immediately.
Step 9
If the cow does not hide, but remains barn, then she has an ovarian disease. The veterinarian prescribes the regimen.
Step 10
FROM infectious diseases: anthrax, foot and mouth disease, brucellosis, tuberculosis, the cow should be given preventive vaccinations.
Step 11
By keeping the cow in dry, clean conditions and with proper care and proper milking, your cow will always be healthy, will delight in timely calving and a great return on dairy products.
