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Allan in NE

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So,

It's snowing here (what else is new?) and I'm feeding cattle this morning.

On my second trip from the hay yard I notice the horses are really interested in something way out in the middle of the neighbor's stubble field. Can't really make it out, but there is for sure something 'moving' out there; maybe a deer or coyote?

Get my chores all done, jump in the pickup and run out there to see what is going on. It's a new baby calf! Just a couple of hours old and just about frozen to death. I load it up and bring it back to the barn to get it warmed up. Darned thing is just about dead.

Check all my cows; all in and nobody looks like she's just had a calf or even acting like it.

Call the neighbor and ask if he's got a cow without a calf. He said he'd check and see. He calls back later and says no, not mine.

So, I go to town and buy some milk replacer and a nurse bottle. Roar out to the farm and get a couple of quarts down the little guy to try and keep him alive. It was a rodeo there for awhile, but it wasn't long before I was his best friend. :>)

Anyway, I then check all the cows again for about the 12th time. I see one eating that has some 'pink' colored mucous hangin' out of 'er. Hmmmmmmm

Run 'er in the barn with that calf and they seem to get along just fine. Just don't know if they are realated or not. Have to watch and see if that calf sucks in the morning, I guess.

How in the heck did that calf get clear out there in the middle of that field? Cows don't jump out and then jump back in the fence.

Allan

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It's a good thing you were alert and noticed it. I'll be interested to hear if you can figure out where it came from. I was starting to think you'd gotten lost in the snow with no pictures or updates for a while.
Zach
 
You may never know how it got there. They look like they like each other in the picture.
 

It's a small down payment for the bad luck you had last winter. I think it was last winter. Anyway, that was great luck for you.

KEH
 
You should just be thanking your lucky stars that yout the proud owner of a band a horses,,,,,,,,,You just keep that calf well and fed and it will buy a lot a hay for them horseys..
 
Hey! Could have been carried there by a dog or two. Maybe a coyote or a snake or a mouse, or---oh well! Len
 
Allan,
Nice rescue! It's always wonderful to hear that another calf made it into to the world safe and sound. Beautiful little calf. Cow and calf look comfortable in the bedding. I really miss the cows and calves. I just raise beef steers out to market now. Good luck!
Kow Farmer
 
Allan,
I have calves walk through my fences all the time. When they are that small unless you put a 10 wire fence with 3 inch spacing, or a coupel three hot wires down loow, those little farts will get through. They lay down, roll over and get under the wire than stand up on the other side. Sure glad you saw and then found the mother. Some of those ol" bidies like to socialize with the herd and they"ll leave their calf, returning later---sometimes too late.
Glad you got "em mothered up.
 
Here's the strangest part,

The only tracks out there in the new snow were where the baby had stumbled around in a 10' circle and where he had lain down in two spots.

Not another track anywhere coming nor going and not a cow track in sight.

And that unmbilical was brand new fresh and pink, 'bout a half inch wide and looked like it had just been snapped. By the time I had got back from town with the milk replacer it had shrunk and dried up.

Just as thou the little feller had dropped out of the sky.

Allan
 
Some time a calf can get spooked by something, like a person, and they will take off at full speed for something like a 100 yards, then plop down and stay put.
Kenny
 
Thats a calf for ya. Classic calf move, something spooks them and next thing you know they"re gone visiting. Don"t be surprised if he goes through a fence or 2 during weaning( He sounds like he"s been practicing). If he does, the local auction barn will be glad to take him, Plus you never know when you"ll need that money form him. Just my 2 cents.
Alex
 
That calf must have shot out with some velocity to hit the ground clear out in the middle of the neighbors field. lol
 
Couple years ago found a calf all alone in the corn stubble the cows were grazing. No one near it. No one cared.

Walked through the herd, and there was a cow with another calf.

Well got them home to the barn.

But what about the 1st calf?

No one cared, no one looked real fresh. Man I was puzzled.

Finally figured they were twins I guess. Both looked big, and not the typical runty twin issues so didn't seem to fit. Ma took to both of them, but then one got it's knee busted & the weather turned bad on me & couldn't save the one little fella.

Sure was a puzzle, think I had it figured out.

They can always throw a curve ball......

--->Paul
 
If mama was a first calf heifer, she may not make much of attempt to claim it. If this was her 3rd or 4th calf would wonder about her ability to be a good mama.
 
When I seen your subject line I thought it was a political rant :)

I had a less than a day old calf one time I was going to try to band. Momma was cool about it and when I got my hands on him he slipped out and ran through a fence and into neigbors corn field. Corn bout waist high, like to have never got him out. Little fellers can run a ways right off the bat.

My brother found a new born calf in the middle of a 20 acre hay field one time bout 150 yards across the fence from where the cows were. After that day I make sure cows on the far side of the farm from where I am cutting hay.
 
(quoted from post at 19:02:25 02/18/10) Here's the strangest part,

The only tracks out there in the new snow were where the baby had stumbled around in a 10' circle and where he had lain down in two spots.

Not another track anywhere coming nor going and not a cow track in sight.

And that unmbilical was brand new fresh and pink, 'bout a half inch wide and looked like it had just been snapped. By the time I had got back from town with the milk replacer it had shrunk and dried up.

Just as thou the little feller had dropped out of the sky.

Allan
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Guess you'll be naming it ET............ Strange things happen for sure.
Had a rabbit once in a solid cage (actually, a Flex pallet) that had 10 babies. Went to count babies when they were 3 days old and there was 2. Figured she'd eaten them and was thinking up recipes for her if she ate the other 2 when I moved some straw in a corner about 6 ft away and found 8 babies in a nice little hollow. Put them back with her and she raised them all and never another incident. Who knows???

dave
 
Yeah, I know.

But, guess I didn't make myself clear. The movement that I and the horses saw was the little guy trying to get to his feet for the first time.

He didn't even learn to walk until after I had him back in the barn.

He was born out there and not just 100 yards from the cattle either. He was clear out in the middle of a 160 acre wheat field. ???

Hope that old cow will feed him. Sure don't want the hassle of a bum calf.

Allan
 
(quoted from post at 05:09:14 02/19/10) Yeah, I know.

But, guess I didn't make myself clear. The movement that I and the horses saw was the little guy trying to get to his feet for the first time.

He didn't even learn to walk until after I had him back in the barn.

He was born out there and not just 100 yards from the cattle either. He was clear out in the middle of a 160 acre wheat field. ???

Hope that old cow will feed him. Sure don't want the hassle of a bum calf.

Allan
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Wasn't Superman found kinda like that???????????? Name him Clark..........

Dave
 
Did you check with Old, could have been one of his coons. (the Devil made me say that) Glad you found him no matter where he came from. Keith
 
Gust of wind must have picked it up & deposited it or maybe you got some big ole birds out there? At least you got it warmed up & Happy.
 
I had that happen ones, The cow had one calf that i fond, saved him , but she had one before 80 rod's away didn't see him. I lost him of corse. I the snow . Your case is strang Good job.
 
Think I got the maternal heritage figured out; now would like to see him suck.

However, both he and mom were too darned worried about that new "band" he received this morning. :>)

How he ended up out there in the field still has me scratchin' my head tho.

Allan
 
Think I got the maternal heritage figured out; now would like to see him suck.

However, both he and mom were too darned worried about that new "band" he received this morning. :>)

How he ended up out there in the field still has me scratchin' my head tho.

Allan
 
Noticed a new calf in the middle of neighbor's field, in a driving rainstorm. He had no cows, and the last of mine had calved 3 days before, near his fence. We figured she had twinned, and one went under the fence. She was kind of snaky anyhow, and I owed the neighbor a dozen favors or so, so I gave it to him to bottle raise. He was religious, so named is Esau- after the bible story of the brothers Jacob and Esau- Esau was the one who was cast out, but their father (I think).

He brought me over some steaks when Esau went to his final reward- pretty tasty, he was.
 
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