wrc
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Last night started out pretty good with a bad ending this morning. Around 4 yesterday my neighbor, who is a small animal vet, called and had an extra ticket for the Ok State game. Well we are right in the middle of calving and I had my reservations about leaving but we don't live far from the stadium and my wife would be here to check cattle. At halftime my wife sent me a text that one of our Ohlde cows was in labor. She's a heck of a cow and raises a good calf and I had a Meyer 734 x Angus embryo in her so we headed home. She was not getting it done so we brought her in and started pulling the calf with my neighbor vet friend helping. When I went in to get the legs everything felt right other than the feet were higher in the birth canal than normal. It was a fairly hard pull but not too bad, the calf seemed ok so we turn the cow out and thats when she started bleeding. Long story short the calfs feet had torn the upper part of the vaginal wall so bad that it couldn't be repaired and she died early this morning. Now the kids have a Meyer 734 bottle calf and I lost on of my best cows. Sometimes there is just nothing that you can do I guess. One bright spot is that one of the first calf heifers that I had been worried about calved on her own this morning and her and calf are doing good. The Meyer calf took a full bottle of colostrum last night and a bottle this morning, but has not stood yet. We are hopeful that we can save him, he is a big stout calf. Sure wanted a heifer, but thats a whole nother story.