1st calf of 2011

Erik Ks farmer · Feb 11, 2011

Just came in from the first 2011 calving on our farm. 1st calf heifer with a big bull calve backwards presentation. My 1st backwards calf, called the vet out and she sure made it look easy...thankfully both feet were out and she pulled him right out. Got him rubbed down and dry in a nest of hay with momma standing over him. Will go out and check to make sure all is well shortly. Off to a anxious start, but thankful to see another wonder come into the world.

Detmurds · Feb 11, 2011

(quoted from post at 23:26:14 02/10/11) Just came in from the first 2011 calving on our farm. 1st calf heifer with a big bull calve backwards presentation. My 1st backwards calf, called the vet out and she sure made it look easy...thankfully both feet were out and she pulled him right out. Got him rubbed down and dry in a nest of hay with momma standing over him. Will go out and check to make sure all is well shortly. Off to a anxious start, but thankful to see another wonder come into the world.

Now that is some exciting stuff! Congrats!

Roy in UK · Feb 11, 2011

Actually if it was a very big calf out of a heifer it was probably better that it was a breech birth. A "Normal" presentation might have resulted in it getting stuck around the shoulders and / or hips. A vet told me that too. The first thing you have to do with a breech birth once the calf is out is hang it upside down for a a short while or so to drain the fluid out of its lungs. We had one breech birth and the vet ( A great big Australian guy ) picked the calf up by its back legs and swung it around 3 or 4 times, what a strong lad!

hayray · Feb 11, 2011

I have hung them upside down like that also.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 11, 2011

We've had 4 since sundown last night, and 2 more are working on it right now. Sure glad this didn't happen 3 nights ago when it was -16 degrees.

bison · Feb 11, 2011

I think you and that vet both got i wrong.

If breech calving would be better for an easyer birth.You think nature would have them all come that way normally.

Second, when the calf is big and you manage to get the hips out(make sure to get the tail down before it gets hung back and tears the cow up),you still have to deal with the shoulders who can now hook behind the pelvic.(i pulled once a calf clean in half that way )(Should've been but was to late for a C-section),by this time the navel cord is pinched in the pelvic and can result in a dead calf if it is hung up to long cause the calf is deprived off the oxigen it now badly needs.

730 virgil · Feb 11, 2011

that last time i did that i was spitting out parts of teeth and blood momma cow didn't like that idea too well .
she cracked along side the jaw with a horn (highland) and down i went

okierob · Feb 11, 2011

pulled one yesterday from a heifer also. everything came out pretty good. just needed some tension applied and worked the head through and it was good to go.

did"nt take long and it was up and getting it"s colostrum.

got another one due any time.

Erik Ks farmer · Feb 12, 2011

That is what the vet did, looked odd to me at first, didn't see that kind of power in her, dragging the 80 lbs calf and then swinging him in the air!

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