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Livestock/General Farming photo thread TAKE #2 ::::RULES IN 1st POST::::
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Time for some earrings and a bit of heat!:eek: No wonder he doesn't want to go near you!
Ah I'm gentle on them
He did himself no help trying to leap through the calf crate though. If I get any more cans of gas as gifts from farmers for doing their calves, I'll end up buying lighters just to use it up. Think I've got four full ones now. 0 -
Had a very busy Easter day. In the morning had one bull calf born. Cow calved on her own, calf strong and nursing quickly.
Had another cow started calving in the afternoon. She had her second calf. The first calf she had was a heifer, 51kgs birth weight, cow didn't managed to calve on her own, calf's rear got stuck.
This time we were hoping for a better calving as she has grown more and already the second calving, plus the calf's sire was the same as the first time, so expecting the simmilar sze calf. However, her half sister from dam's side had 70kgs bull calf this year with a slight assistance, 292days gestation. This girl started calving on her 293rd day. We were quite worried. First let her to calve on her own, just watched from a distance, as she didn't wanted anybody close. In two hours she made almost no progress,just both hooves were seen. Have cought her and closed into the steel pen. Three people pulled the the half of the calf out, but it was hard. The calf got stuck, checked and it appeared that the calf's rear is abit wider than cow's birth canal. At first calf was alive, but soon he died. We wanted to save atleast the cow, so had no choise just to pull the calf with tractor. The calf was just abit wider, so pulled it quickly. The cow had uterine prolapse, it was already 1am, so weren't able to call to the vet. He wasn't picking the phone in the early morning too, so needed to call to another vet. That one came and fixed everything. The cow has problems standing, but luckily today she's already standing abit more.
The calf's weight was 66kgs. If he was ~10kgs smaller we'd have had no problems pulling him. The cow will be culled when she'll get better.
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Glad that other calves are growing well.
That's 2,5 months old bull calf, which birth weight was 70kgs.
9 days old 7/8Limo heifer.
7 days old Limox heifer out of Herefordxdairy cow. She's ~10years old and that's her second heifer.
The possible keeper. 1month and 9 days old heifer.
And a very good day for our new Limo bull, because he finally met his new girls- two 23months old heifers.
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I'm intrigued by the your charolais name with the blue calves
How was Maserati for caving? Have a sh/lm cow due to him and she's massive.
We had to give a small pull but she probably would have calved by herself if she was given more time but we were a bit anxious as she was a bit narrow. I like the charolais because we have purebreds . wait till tomorrow for a charolais or two0 -
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Base price wrote: »It would be normal for a calf to be higher on the rear. He will level up as he gets older. Better to have him high on the rear than on the shoulder
Ha, true. It's very difficult to gauge them when young, some lovely calves here over the years have turned to complete dogs as they got older.0 -
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