nootka
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Ok, I have a call in to my vet about this:
I got a two month old filly brought to my farm. Originally, she was a bit on the thin side, wormy, and had an occasional dry cough.
No temp, no discharge, no other symptoms.
I wormed her twice w/Zimectrin Gold since she's been here (about a month and a half). She's no longer thin, but the cough seems to be increasing in occurrence, but never so much as to overly worry me, considering there were no other symptoms! It seemed she would do more of it when it was dry and dusty.
This morning when I went to feed, I could hear a "snoring" sound coming from her throat/nose as she walked over to get her hay. She coughed once when she lowered her head to eat.
None of my other herd has any symptoms, either, and it's been 6 weeks since she's been here. Her dam is fine, too.
I would love to hear some input on your experiences with similar problems. I'm just hoping it's not something we can't easily fix.
When I had something similar a few years ago, my weanies got it, and they had snotty noses along w/it. It lasted just about six weeks before they finally got better, despite the antibiotics, the bloodwork, etc., we finally determined it was a non specific bug that mainly just had to run its course though the antibiotics were for keeping down any secondary infection since the snot was pretty thick and yellow/green. Bleah.
This is different, though, as I said, because there is no discharge and not even a slight fever.
Thanks in advance,
Liz M.
I got a two month old filly brought to my farm. Originally, she was a bit on the thin side, wormy, and had an occasional dry cough.
No temp, no discharge, no other symptoms.
I wormed her twice w/Zimectrin Gold since she's been here (about a month and a half). She's no longer thin, but the cough seems to be increasing in occurrence, but never so much as to overly worry me, considering there were no other symptoms! It seemed she would do more of it when it was dry and dusty.
This morning when I went to feed, I could hear a "snoring" sound coming from her throat/nose as she walked over to get her hay. She coughed once when she lowered her head to eat.
None of my other herd has any symptoms, either, and it's been 6 weeks since she's been here. Her dam is fine, too.
I would love to hear some input on your experiences with similar problems. I'm just hoping it's not something we can't easily fix.
When I had something similar a few years ago, my weanies got it, and they had snotty noses along w/it. It lasted just about six weeks before they finally got better, despite the antibiotics, the bloodwork, etc., we finally determined it was a non specific bug that mainly just had to run its course though the antibiotics were for keeping down any secondary infection since the snot was pretty thick and yellow/green. Bleah.
This is different, though, as I said, because there is no discharge and not even a slight fever.
Thanks in advance,
Liz M.