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<blockquote data-quote="bird dog" data-source="post: 1751422" data-attributes="member: 5381"><p>Sorry for the loss. it happens to everyone. Some of the most heart breaking times with cattle are hard to take. I had a cow calve in the dead of winter and the calf had a bad case of restricted tendons. It was brutally cold for our area. The cows were in a field of around 150 acres but also had a calf shelter in it. I got the calf into the shelter on some bedding. The cow would come up two or three times a day to feed the calf. She would bellow and the calf would hobble out on its shins and then return. I would also work with the calf morning and evening straightening the the legs. It gradually got stronger over a two week period and got to where it would walk around some when the cow came to feed.</p><p>I new it was getting close for the calf to go with the mom and rejoin the herd. </p><p></p><p>A couple of mornings later the calf was gone from the shelter and I felt like I had accomplished something. I never saw the calf again. Not a big financial loss but a loss that makes you wonder why you fool with these darn things but as Jerry Jeff Walker used to sing, "The high times carry the low"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bird dog, post: 1751422, member: 5381"] Sorry for the loss. it happens to everyone. Some of the most heart breaking times with cattle are hard to take. I had a cow calve in the dead of winter and the calf had a bad case of restricted tendons. It was brutally cold for our area. The cows were in a field of around 150 acres but also had a calf shelter in it. I got the calf into the shelter on some bedding. The cow would come up two or three times a day to feed the calf. She would bellow and the calf would hobble out on its shins and then return. I would also work with the calf morning and evening straightening the the legs. It gradually got stronger over a two week period and got to where it would walk around some when the cow came to feed. I new it was getting close for the calf to go with the mom and rejoin the herd. A couple of mornings later the calf was gone from the shelter and I felt like I had accomplished something. I never saw the calf again. Not a big financial loss but a loss that makes you wonder why you fool with these darn things but as Jerry Jeff Walker used to sing, "The high times carry the low" [/QUOTE]
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