Sunday, March 29, 2009

Life and Death on the Farm

Update:  The prolapsed cow died this afternoon.  Her calf is still doing great.  When Bill went over to check on her, another cow was delivering a breech calf - not the usual position.  We got her penned in a smaller pen, waited for her to calm a bit (she was trying to jump over the railings), got pulling chains on the calf's hind legs and then I got in a protected corner and started pulling with contractions.  Got it moving, and then Bill jumped in to help.  The calf finally came - looked like it had been dead for a while - hard to say why or when.  It looks small, so we will watch her for a twin.  In the meantime, we took the orphaned calf and rubbed the dead calf's placenta all over it and put it in with the cow.  We'll see if she adopts it.  And if she has a twin.

Is this TMI??

In the meantime, it's snowing and blowing, very wintery out. 

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