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MANAGE MASTITIS NATURALLY

When our cow, Mayberry, developed mastitis, I didn’t initially suspect anything was wrong. I’d collected her from the pasture as usual, and she was just as ornery as ever, tossing her head when I haltered her and walking with a brisk pace back to the barn. She practically dragged me the whole way, eager to bury her head in the grain bucket.

It wasn’t until I went to wash her up that I made the unpleasant discovery that one of her udder quarters was swollen, lumpy, and hot to the touch. A quick temperature check proved she was running a slight fever. My first thought was that she likely had mastitis, an illness I’d dreaded but had never dealt

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