A 5 year old simmental cow that my neighbor had given me a few years back, had a beautiful black white faced bull calf about 3 days ago. I had just opened up my 80 acre hay pasture for them to start grazing it, and the grass was fairly thick and about 2 foot high, and some places had Johnson grass about 3 feet tall and thick. Well, this mama cow was down there, grazing with the herd, and I went down to check them all. While being careful driving thru all that high grass, my worst fear came to be. I felt the bump and as soon as I did, I stopped, go out, and yep, sure enough, I had ran over that bull calf. DAMMIT I thought... made me sick. there it was laying there all peaceful, and now it was just twisting and turning around, not getting up with, blood running out of its nose and mouth. I tried to get it on its feet, but it just felt like a rag doll. figured it was paralized.. or hurt internally. I drove back to the house to get the .22, (thought I would have to put it out of its misery) Said a prayer as I was driving back down to the pasture.. and when I got back.. it was laying there, blood still coming out of its nose and mouth. Mama cow was licking it. So, I let well enough alone. It was almost dark, so I thought "its either going to make it or not" . Yesterday evening, when I got down there, that calf was all cleaned up and on its feet, sucking mama, and moving around like nothing happened!
Those little dude are sure tough... still amazing to me even after all these years of raising them!
Those little dude are sure tough... still amazing to me even after all these years of raising them!
