Happy Valentines day from all of us at the farm! To celebrate this holiday, a special cow on our farm gave birth to an absolutely stunning heifer calf. I have included a few pictures below of this gal' and if you notice she does not look quite like a typical Jersey or Holstein cross. This is because our newest addition to the herd is actually a Jersey and Angus hybrid (which we lovingly call Jangus). Her mother was also a Jangus, with an emphasis on the Angus characteristics as she is a short and stout cow! We are very excited to see what this little lady will grow up to look like as they will change so much in appearance as they age.
Today I wanted to talk about another type of antibiotic that we have used at our farm, and one that is commonly used at other operations and this is LA200. This contains a broad spectrum antibiotic known as oxytetracycline and is suggested to be effective at the treatment of some forms of bacterial scours, respiratory causing bugs, and many more illnesses. LA200 can also be purchased as a mixture with banamine, which I like to think of as Advil-for-cows (pain reliver, classified as a NSAID which is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug). Oxytetracycline is easily capable of passing through the bacterial cell membranes where it will interrupt ribosomal function resulting in no/minimal creation of proteins and eventual cell death. A ribosome is a very important organelle found inside nearly every cell and its primary function is to create proteins that preform various homeostatic processes. Without the ability to create proteins, (a term coined translation) the cell will eventually die and in the context of LA200 this would mean that the bacteria causing infection if susceptible to oxytetracycline will die due to the disruption of translation. How interesting!
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