Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Dead Eye Dick said:
Been there, not exactly my choice for Sunday afternoon entertainment. But sure is better than losing both the cow and the calf (or either one).
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My favorite is having to use a jack to pull the calf out. And the mother frickin’ ALWAYS goes alone, DEEP into the woods where you can’t get a pickup with 500 yards. Then, of course it has to be 2:00 in the frickin’ morning on the single coldest day humanity has ever recorded.

Yeah… joy of joys.
 
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lariat said:
100%. BTDT. And finding on in a late ice storm and having to warm them up in the tub.
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Had one, perhaps the stupidest Hereford ever born. Had her calf in the middle of our largest pasture, in the middle of a rare, Louisiana ice storm. Took forever, to get her back to a barn, where I could warm the calf up. ( I was carrying the calf ).

It gets worse. She did not know how to nurse. I had to milk that heifer until we finally taught her how to let her calf nurse. He was a pretty little Hereford bull calf. Worth the effort.
 
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TheHorta said:
My favorite is having to use a jack to pull the calf out. And the mother frickin’ ALWAYS goes alone, DEEP into the woods where you can’t get a pickup with 500 yards. Then, of course it has to be 2:00 in the frickin’ morning on the single coldest day humanity has ever recorded.

Yeah… joy of joys.
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How about checking on a heifer that's been calving awhile only to finally see the feet coming out soles up☹️
Get her in the chute only to pull a dead calf
Yeah, I saved the heifer but damn that was a nice calf to give to the coyotes.
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Or better yet
A cow is not progressing past the front feet so I get her in
Find two front feet and two rear feet
OK, I have twins so try to push one back in while pulling other one out.
No go, will not separate.
So this is what I cut out.
One body, two calves each going opposite directions
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If I die in my sleep tonight the missus can put on my gravestone
Good long life, he may not have seen it all but he saw a helluva lot.
 
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Had a cow have a perfectly normal healthy calf one time. A couple weeks later she started looking sickly and when I drove by her she smelled like death. Got her in the pen and put her in the chute. Put on a palpation glove and when in to check things out. I pulled out a dead twin bone by bone. Took me a while to find all the hooves. Hide came out in several pieces and the hair was already slipping. I wore that smell on my arm for months. Lesson learned that palpation gloves will let the smell pass through. That is the single worst experience I’ve ever had in all my life of working with livestock
 
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lariat said:
100%. BTDT. And finding on in a late ice storm and having to warm them up in the tub.
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Had to pull this calf a week after she was born. She was close to the house so, thank god for that. She was hypothermic, at 3AM, of course. Had her in the shower for an hour or so to get her temp up. Ended up a bucket calf. Now she’s about 50lbs underweight from what I can tell. The calf next to her is only a week older than her. Still hopeful she gets on track some day.
 
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That was depressing. For a bit of motivation.
I was heading down the driveway and saw one of the cows in difficulty so I stopped and jumped the fence. I pulled the calf and cleared her nose and mouth. The cow started her cleaning. I waited until the calf got up and I got it on a teet. Not the best way to start a day but it was an awesome way to start a day.
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