Lumpy Jaw or Abscess? How to tell the difference. 

Almost as if he said NOOOOOOOOooo000ooo!!!😁

😂😂😂

Thank you!

I agree.😊😊

WOW..... Hope DocE has the time to reply; that's wild.....

Howdy George, I reckon that would be called a sialocele. I’ve seen and managed them on dogs and reckon they do happen in cattle as well. When I’ve suspected it, I’ve aspirated a mix of clear fluid and blood… they have been maybe softball sized, yours sounds crazy! They are probably traumatic in origin. I guess we assume they are the result of a salivary gland duct becoming blocked and dumping into tissue rather than into the mouth. Cheers mate!

@@EnochtheCowVet Thank you very much! That must be it. When I noted the swelling I immediately suspected mechanical trauma (the animal had to push its head between slanted bars during the winter to feed, the swelling occured on the side where the lower edge of the mandible could hit the bars). I think I own the owner a sharp kick into his testicles. He did not want to pay the vet for a proper examination and treatment, he just decided to slaughter the animal. It could have lived otherwise. Thank you once more, I have learnt something important today.

Just out of curiosity, where was the "bag" located exactly, inside or outside the jaw? Was it anterior to the gland?

@@angelabullington6116 See figure 4(A) in this article: pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9c9a/999d784e4548864873b89f1525605bc124c9.pdf

I know what you mean, I'm on meloxican and it didn't help at all. But now I'm on Percocet and it works great.😁😁

@@SSGTJAB Wish you could get that in big glass bottles at the farm store!

Yep, there is a follow up video, search “Follow up”

@@EnochtheCowVet ❤️

Takes a while to get noticed as they don’t come to the yards often. In the big paddocks they live in they tend to move away. Cheers!

While it's noticeable after he points it out, imagine looking out at a herd of cattle grazing or a herd of cattle moving quickly as a group. Could you pick it out easily? I'm actually impressed the farmer noticed it at all. Dairy cows come through the parlor twice or three times a day and can be looked over closely frequently. Beef cows, not so much.

It is caused by sharp feedstuffs such as some plant seeds. Just bad luck!

@@EnochtheCowVet Thanks, was just wondering if it was something could be controlled.

Good luck and a failed engagement!

@@EnochtheCowVet lucky us!

I had no idea how diverse Australia is! Came for a year… been here a couple of decades!

Often you don’t see lumps etc. until you yard them. They live on thousands of acres and don’t come up to you when you are checking water, feed, or fencing. The good ones do get us out… like this awesome young man!

@@EnochtheCowVet thousands of acres now that's a way to live. I am a huge animal lover. I love animals more then people. It really seems hard to find lumps some of them I would imagine you won't see them until you brush them. Thank you for responding and education sir. Give you guys credit that would be to hard for me to do. I would be so afraid I would hurt them. Thank you for your time.

OMG 😳!!!!!! The truth hurts 🤕

🤔 hmmmmm,wondering if I would like digging into a juicy 🥩 steak that came from a beast that was culled cause he had lumpy jaw.....looks NASTY 🤢

If we catch them early enough, they treatment works. This guy flew under the radar too long. The farmer, (an exceptionally good one), picked him out of the mob as he was starting to slip in condition. But, as you said, it is of the size, we might struggle to get on top of this one.

Yikes, this could be either a melanoma on a grey horse or a squamous cell carcinoma, regardless I would get a hold of your local vet as soon as possible. There are some therapeutics for both, and some adjunctive therapy to potentially slow it down, radical surgical options (as radical as you might be imagining) and lastly, products to help him once he does become painful if things worsen. Regardless, your veterinarian is your horses best friend, get him or her involved (if you haven’t already). I sure hope they can help you and your horse. I hope this helps.

@@EnochtheCowVet thank you so much for answering! We had him to our vet about seven months ago to get his teeth floated ( he was in really ruff shape at that time but has sence bloomed out in spite of the cancer) and he noticed the cancer than. He told us as old as he was he was basically on hospice. He is a good vet but I had just thought I'd get a second opinion. Thank you again.

That is a steer my friend. Hopefully he will recover, then enjoy a beautiful yet relatively short life. If he doesn’t recover he will be euthanized before he begins to suffer.