Vetericyn products have arrived!!!

Yea!  I got a delivery!  I received my winnings from the Proud To Dairy photo contest!  I got four bottles of pink eye spray, one teat spray, and one umbilical/navel spray.  I immediately used the pink eye spray.  (Not on me, on one of my girls!)  With these hot, dry, windy, fly-infested conditions, we are trying to keep the animals from getting pink eye.  This sprays GREAT.  It really soaks the eye.  It's much easier to use than the dry puffer that I've always used in the past.  It gives a good big squirt every time.  It really soaks in.  It also looks like it doesn't irritate their eyes like the puffer does.  I'm hoping the medicine works great, too.

From Progressive Dairyman 07-21-12

For those of you who don't know, pink-eye is a condition that happens when the bacteria from feces (otherwise known as poop) gets in the eye.  Animals have flies around them because flies like to land on poop and lay their eggs.  When they land, bacteria sticks to their legs.  When those flies buzz around animals and land around the eyes, some of that bacteria gets in the eyes.  Then they can get pink eye.

You need to control flies.  Pesticides can be sprayed or poured on.  We don't use back rubbers that the cattle can walk under because we don't want their topline hair rubbed thin.  If you don't have any neighbor cattle, you can use a product that the animals can eat combined with a loose mineral (a feed-through like Clari-fly).



I have had some really good success by offering my girls a yellow sulphur mineral block along with their regular brown mineral block.  Before that, I was starting to feel like Clem in the cartoon.

Thanks again to the people at Proud To Dairy, Progressive Dairyman, and Innovacyn for having the contest and sending me these great products for my girls!  Thanks Alan Leavitt, Walt Cooley, Emily Caldwell, and Tabitha Cromer!  I will think of you all every time I use or talk about these products!
My parents say thanks too, because you are saving them some MONEY!

...and the winner is...Maddie Moo!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EACH AND EVERY PERSON WHO TOOK TIME OUT OF THEIR DAY AND WENT TO THE PROUD TO DAIRY SITE AND VOTED FOR MY PHOTO!

AND EXTRA SPECIAL GREAT BIG GIANT THANKS TO THE PEOPLE WHO WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR SPONSORING AND RUNNING THIS PHOTO CONTEST:

TABITHA CROMER 

Marketing Communications Manager

at Innovacyn, Inc. (the makers of Vetericyn)

ALAN LEAVITT 

Publisher 

Progressive Dairyman magazine

WALT COOLEY 

Editor  

Progressive Dairyman magazine

and 

EMILY CALDWELL

Web editor

Progressive Publishing

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PROUD TO DAIRYby Progressive Dairyman

THE CHALLENGE

Show us your pride:  Participate in the June Dairy month photo contest!

Do you have a Proud to Dairy hat? Snap a photo of yourself wearing it and upload it to Proud to Dairy for a chance to win prizes from the makers of Vetericyn Wound Spray: http://proudtodairy.ning.com/profiles/blogs/show-us-your-pride-participate-in-the-june-dairy-month-photo. Don't have a hat yet? Earn one by posting a blog or video and tell us why you're Proud to Dairy!

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So I made a blog post AND I posted a video.  They sent me TWO hats!  I put my hair up in a bun, headed out to do chores, stuck my Proud To Dairy hat on my head, and Mom snapped DOZENS of photos with her cell phone.  Eventually we got some good ones. 

Do I look PROUD TO DAIRY, or what?

Photo contest winner:  ME!!!

Tell her what we have for her, Johnny!

  TWO of these

and one of these!

These prizes have a combined value of  $120 (or more, depending on where you buy them)!!!

I had my choice of three products.  The third option was Umbilical, Navel & Udder gel.  I figured with as many flies as there are, I had better get two of the pink eye spray.  Darn those flies!  I will NOT let them get the best of MY girls!  As soon as these come in the mail, I'm going to be heavily armed!  I've already used Vetericyn wound spray and liked it a lot.  That's why I was extra excited about this contest.  I wanted some more Vetericyn products for my supply box!  They are GOOD stuff!

Thanks again to all the individuals who made this contest and these prizes and my WIN possible! 

Thank you!  Thank you!  THANK you!