We did have one cow abort her calf this year. Jared and Emry noticed her on one of their many checks last Saturday. She was kicking at her stomach quite a bit and she would lay down and stand up over and over again, very uncomfortable looking. So they kept a pretty close eye on her. Even the kids and I checked her while Jared was at his Priesthood Meeting. After Jared got home that night we walked her into the small pen beside the barn in case she needed help calving. By morning it seemed like all her uncomfortable symptoms were gone but she was discharging something gooey and brown and very foul smelling. So we called the vet, he suspected the calf was probably dead inside her, but he was at a job and had another call to go to before he could get to us. At 8:30 that night he came. Before that Jared and I were able to get her into the barn and into the maternity pen. We tried for quite some time to get her to stand up and it wasn't until Jared finally went to examine her inside did she finally stand. The smell just continued to get worse, I don't know how Jared could stand it, I got to use the excuse to go check on the kids because they were in bed but not asleep. When I came back out they were just cleaning up, it took the vet 2 hours to get that poor calf out. It had started rotting inside the cow and was kinda coming off in pieces. The vet had to reach in with the chains and get them around the front hoofs, one of which had come off during his first exam. He would then have to position the head and pull a little, and keep doing this until the poor calf was finally poking out. It took an hour just to pull once the calf was in the proper position. We are so thankful he was able to come out, it saved the momma cow.
So this is where we are at in terms of calving, never a dull moment!!!!!!
Ok well I guess I asked for that...hope she's Allright but I was hoping for a post involving my adorable grandkids ��
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