I'm sitting in an office about 100 miles away from them. I check every few hours on the computer. My father-in-law is around. We also have two guys in town that are "on call" when he needs help assisting during the day when I'm not there.
The way this worked this morning is I called my father-in-law around 11:30 or so when I first saw it. He came in and got on the remote in our office right next to the pens and then called for help. Our helper came and pulled the calf by hand. It had one front foot doubled-up under. Heifer had pushed one leg and the head out. Unfortunately, the calf had already suffocated. This one was the quickest I've seen one die like that. She must have been trying for a while and it wasn't noticeable.
Good news is we had a calf out in the country that had gotten stepped on and had a pretty badly injured back leg. When we found it, mom had pretty much abandoned it, or at least wasn't close by at the time and it had to come to town to save it. We've had it in town a few weeks bottle feeding it and its leg is a lot better. So, it has a new momma. The calf is already sucking the heifer that just lost her baby and seems to be accepting it just fine.
This stuff just happens no matter how hard you try. You can't always sit right there. We hadn't had a calf in almost a week. They are obviously hitting high gear now and we'll be sitting closer.
One request - if your on and someone else is moving the camera, just sit back and watch. Its probably us moving it from inside the office (which the camera is hard-wired to) where we have much better control. We'll sit in there and watch them until one calves or we decide we need to do something. Apparently multiple people can watch the camera at once, just only one can move it at a time.