We sent a dozen Barren cows off to the Factory last week, and its come back saying one of them was condemned and disposed of because it had Septicemia. Any ideas on what causes this in the first place, how long the animal will live it, symptoms, and if possible, treatment?
Septicaemia just indicates that the animal had a bacterial infection that had got into the blood stream. What the vet at the Factory probably found was lots of little microabscesses in the organs such as on the heart valves, in the liver and kidneys etc to indicate that bacteria has entered the bloodstream. the animal may not have appeared sick from the outside…but I wouldn’t want to go eating meat that had been supplied with blood+bacteria recently! Any bacteria infection in the body can enter the bloodstream.