They're calling for bad weather here today, and, of course, the big pet looks like she's gonna calve today. Put her in a pen to keep an eye on her. Right now, I have one calf recovering from surgery, and one waiting to go to the vet's next week. And I'm running out of pens.
We've been having problems with newborn calves having, what we have decided, is a navel defect caused by the bull.The bull is now gone, but about one in four calves have had a protrusion of the omentum coming out of the navel opening and being strangulated by the navel opening as it closes. The only way we can save the calf is by surgery at about a week old to remove it. Vet has never seen anything like it, nor has New Boulton.
Just another part of this fun game we call farming.....
We've been having problems with newborn calves having, what we have decided, is a navel defect caused by the bull.The bull is now gone, but about one in four calves have had a protrusion of the omentum coming out of the navel opening and being strangulated by the navel opening as it closes. The only way we can save the calf is by surgery at about a week old to remove it. Vet has never seen anything like it, nor has New Boulton.
Just another part of this fun game we call farming.....