ThreeBoysChicks
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Wow. You are lucky you are alive.
77Herford Farm Zoo Journal Moving
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77Herford
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They said that a few times. I could only use it to walk to the bathroom. I wasn't allowed to shower for nearly two weeks before I was just plain dank and took one and realized real fast that one leg will not support you for long, boy was that a stupid moment. I almost needed my mother to come in to get me out. I had fallen in the shower, which is a small bath tub shower and getting up in one of those with narrow sides on one very tired leg is very challenging. I was on those shots for a couple of weeks and required assistance walking to the bathroom and that one leg was virtually useless. It took around six months to heal.
WildRoseBeef
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How?77Herford said:
Sorry about the incident with your lazy boy lol.
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I'm not sure, how. She was pretty weak after the lengthy delivery as I had to leave and the Vet came out to finish. The Vet was kicked as well by the way, he's not a happy camper. Anyway he loaded the Cow and Calf into the neighbors trailer and brought them to my place and then the Vet went to get medical aid but thought the Cow was ok. I came home to check on the Cow and Calf and thought the Cow had partial paralisis in her left rear leg as she was sitting oddly. So I got her up with some grain as you need to nip that in the bud fast and get them standing. She wouldn't put hardly any weight on it but the Calf did nurse for around ten minutes off and on. I went back to the hospital to pick up my wife and brought her home..yada, yada, yada. In the wee hours I went out to check on the Cow and Calf and saw the lifeless body of the Cow. She had bled out by the looks of things as she ended up having a fractured pelvis we guessed and her getting up for me probably seeled the deal in cutting a main artery. I had no real way of know her pelvis was broken and this was my first Cow with a broken pelvis.WildRoseBeef said:
ThreeBoysChicks
Loving the herd life
That is the only problem with animals, it is hard for them to tell us where it hurts and how they feel. You did all the right things from the way it sounds. It happens...77Herford said:
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SuburbanFarmChic
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She died so it's not an issue but I would have been sorely tempted to cull her after that calf was raised due to temperament. No reason to keep a a cow that tries to kill people. And I know people say things like, great mother, raises good calves, etc. but so do cows that don't try to kill people.
WildRoseBeef
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That's too bad. At least the calf will be okay, but it must've been a big calf, even for a char cow. Thought gelbviehs are a bit more calving ease than that...if i read right the calf's sire is gelbveih right?77Herford said:
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I have a Head Cold. Slept nearly the entire day as my mother is staying with us to help care for DW.
The Wife is looking better on the outside. Her facial swelling has gone down alot but there is still bruising and cut lip. It still hurts to breath and generally move but meds help her out and warm baths.
The Goats are using a bigger pasture now and loving it. The kids run around for a couple of hours at a time and then crash. Then get up and play, play, play some more.
The Wife is looking better on the outside. Her facial swelling has gone down alot but there is still bruising and cut lip. It still hurts to breath and generally move but meds help her out and warm baths.
The Goats are using a bigger pasture now and loving it. The kids run around for a couple of hours at a time and then crash. Then get up and play, play, play some more.
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