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<blockquote data-quote="MurraysMutts" data-source="post: 1806602" data-attributes="member: 39373"><p>She knew what to do. And then I knew she needed help. Definitely not a dumb cow. She came to the pen we spent so much time working together in. Her "safe" place.</p><p>I do feel as though I let her down</p><p></p><p></p><p>I'll expound a bit about last night.</p><p>She was down in the trailer. I spoke with a few folks, as well as the vet at OSU.</p><p>The after hours visit and exam is 250 bucks. I could swing that. IF she needed a c-section done on a downed cow, it was gonna be another 850 bucks. That don't pencil obviously. 1100 bucks to pull a dead calf with the chance of the cow not recovering from surgery. And if she did recover I wouldn't breed her again. So 1100 dollars for a 250 dollar cull cow. Gotta do something else here.</p><p></p><p>I made the decision to go in. Never had my arm in a cows vagina before. Now I cannot say that. The calf was not presented. My arm went in pretty easily up to my big fat forearm. Couldn't get in any farther. Pretty interesting experience really. It's very difficult to tell just what exactly your feeling. But there was obviously no calf. The calf was down low in her belly. Took me a bit to figure that out.</p><p></p><p></p><p>IMO, this all should have been prevented last week. (But I've said that a few times now <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😆" title="Grinning squinting face :laughing:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f606.png" data-shortname=":laughing:" />)</p><p></p><p>An ounce of prevention. A pound of cure. </p><p></p><p>That's my story. And I'm sticking to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MurraysMutts, post: 1806602, member: 39373"] She knew what to do. And then I knew she needed help. Definitely not a dumb cow. She came to the pen we spent so much time working together in. Her "safe" place. I do feel as though I let her down I'll expound a bit about last night. She was down in the trailer. I spoke with a few folks, as well as the vet at OSU. The after hours visit and exam is 250 bucks. I could swing that. IF she needed a c-section done on a downed cow, it was gonna be another 850 bucks. That don't pencil obviously. 1100 bucks to pull a dead calf with the chance of the cow not recovering from surgery. And if she did recover I wouldn't breed her again. So 1100 dollars for a 250 dollar cull cow. Gotta do something else here. I made the decision to go in. Never had my arm in a cows vagina before. Now I cannot say that. The calf was not presented. My arm went in pretty easily up to my big fat forearm. Couldn't get in any farther. Pretty interesting experience really. It's very difficult to tell just what exactly your feeling. But there was obviously no calf. The calf was down low in her belly. Took me a bit to figure that out. IMO, this all should have been prevented last week. (But I've said that a few times now 😆) An ounce of prevention. A pound of cure. That's my story. And I'm sticking to it. [/QUOTE]
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