Holy frig,never saw a cow crash so quickly

Had a holstein cow have her third calving on friday.She looked abit off on thursday,but knew she was close calving so thought not too awfull much of it.On friday we pulled out a bull,put her in another pen and pulled a second one out backwards,dead.She was abit wobbly looking,even though she's only 4 or 5,gave her 2 calcium under the skin.One thing I did notice when puling the calves out she was so ketotic,you could even smell the acidity off the calves being born.Gave her a quadrupal dose of Glycol P since friday and the smell is getting better on her breath.This morning she couldn't get up and looked extremly dehydrated.Gave her another calcium in the vein along with 50 mls of trivetrin incase she's got mastitis too,plus pumped 6 gallon's of warm water with a stint tube,a piece of 3/4 water hose for an extension and a cleaned out teat dip pump.At this point I don't think she may make it.She looked great wednesday,under controll yesterday,but today BOOM.She was 2 weeks early,not uncommon for twinning and had absolutely no udder fill on friday,couldn't even get more than a squirt for the calf.Bulls are so cheap here,figured it wasn't worth the 35 bucks plus the gas to go get some colostrum suppliment for a underweight bull calf,now 2 days later,it's just about dead too.Now I know why some people ultrasound for twins and cull almost all cows carrying them.Never in my 35 years saw a young cow go down so fast.

Sometimes twins can do that to a cow. With the Glycol, I don't think "the more the better" will help. A cow can only metabolize a certain amount per day. My vet will recommend like one cup per day. Give her glucose in the vein. Run some blood and see what her Cal/Mag/Phos really is, so you aren't chasing dead ends. Could be hardware, intestinal torsion,LDA, or any number of things. With being 2 weeks early, prolly wasn't on the close up ration long enough.

Are you sure she hasn't got a twisted stomach? They go down hill pretty quick with that. Had it happen several times with dairy cows.

Had a cow calf normaly on monday night. was up and walking, but wobbly,got two iv calcium, then 4 more oraly on tuesday. wensday morning she was dead. calf had stuck a foot through the uterus wall and she had bled to death internaly

Checked her at noon,looked bad,by 4 she was gone.I saw lots of lda's and it wasn't an lda from what I've experienced anyways.Was thinking on the calf kicked a hole in the uterous theory too.Have seen lots of sick cows in my day,some made it,other's didn't but never saw a cow get so sick that quickly and die.Whatever it was was bothering her the day before she calved and not 2 days before and it took her down very quickly.Thanks everyone for the great suggestions.

We had one go like that a year ago. Just boom. Down. Blood was fine for the big three... but vets told us she had muscle degradation. It just looked like a bad milk fever that never responded to any kind of treatment.
Neighbours just had one yesterday too. Vet told them fatty liver.... Dunno how she's doing right now because I haven't talked to them since yesterday at noon...
I guess we all get some of them...

You wouldn't mind shooting em an e-mail? I've got a question for you... email should be open.

Rod

I had a cow go down two years ago with what I thought was milk fever , had the vet come and look. He said no she had picked up a Ecoli infection,we saved her but she was real sick. Vet said I should J vac the whole herd, but so far I have not.

i milked at a place where they had a cow give birth to a bit larger than normal sized calf a few days later she went down in milking parlor.
vet was called he found out she had a another backwards dead calf in her which had put a foot thru her uterus wall.
she died right there.
parlor is a parallel 10 one side was out of use until skid loader could be brought around and drug her out.

Last time I saw a fatty liver was on a really fat cow.After calving she once in awhile passed a white clump of material.It didn't affect her much that you could notice.It was maybe 12 or more years ago since that one.We fed her somthing different to keep her from loosing weight too quickly to keep it under controll if I remember right.Maybe a high fat top dress, 8% with tallow?