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| I had a "go-round" with it maybe twenty-five years ago....lost some good cows, too......
Family friend Vet swore that we didn't have it in central Kansas, but finally gave in, when the lab tests came back showing it.....If you draw blood, and look at red cells closely, they will have a little bump on one side, like someone stuck a thumbtack in them, and now all you see is the profile of the cell with the head of the "thumbtack" for a little bump....
If I am remembering correctly (questionable) the thing is not really a true bacteria, and not a true parasite, either....something in between. Seems like we administered LOTS of tetracycline over an extended period to all the survivors....haven't had any problems since. What did your vet prescribe as a course of treatment?
But "I feel your pain"....I hadn't been in the in the cow business all that long, and had a big banknote I was trying to service, and dead cows was NOT helpful towards that end. Boy it sure hurt to lose some good cows. What I remember is that they might look ok, and then if you try to move them, or stress them in any way, they just collapse because they are anemic.
I summer cows on "creek-bottom" pastures in this area, and we have also had problems with liver flukes--something else the local vets used to tell us we didn't have.....something to do with ducks flying in and landing on the creeks and transporting the fluke eggs....anyway, now I give them a good shot of the expensive version of Ivomec when we come off of grass. Most of the other wormers are ineffective on flukes.
Good luck. Hope the worst is over for you...showboat
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