Well, 31 is out of the woods, so to speak. This morning she got her last antibiotic treatment. Tonight we were able to milk her bad teet out and have infused an antibiotic in the quarter. We will repeat this in the morning after milking to encourage the infected milk to move on out of the udder. Her udder has softened and she has much less pain. She is letting the baby nurse even on the infected quarter. This is a good indication that she is doing better. We won’t loose the quarter and we won’t loose the cow… Praise Yah!
With all the antibiotics, we won’t be using the milk until the antibiotic leaves her system. That takes about 3 days. The infused teet can’t be used for 3 days after the final infusion. S0 we should have milk again Sunday from the 3 good teets and Monday from the infected teet. The good news from all of this is that she is letting the baby eat… surprisingly!
The chickens are molting - early! We must be in for an early winter, possibly a cold one… not sure about that yet, haven’t seen the thick coats on the cows come in yet. I will let ya’ll know when it does! We may be in for a long, cold winter… we’ll see!
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