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Sorry to hear that happened. Hope the weather starts to cooperate.

Calf is doing well. It had a stomach infection from drinking from dirty teats. It has been a wet, wet spring. It was a close close call. Most calves die from it, but we caught it soon enough. Trying to keep cows bedded and dry the best we can. It for sure the correct term was called. Another...

The calf has both the vet and I stumped. The calf is a week old. Natural, easy birth and was up and sucking within hours. I would call it a dead head, though. Never quite as chirped as his peers. Then, Friday night, noticeable symptoms. Very messy back end and had a lot of blood in poop.Also...

Thanks for all the info. And to answer COW POLLINATER, we have them synced because my husband and I work full time jobs to support our habit of raising a modest herd of 40 cows. We don't have a large farm with a lot of acres of pasture (only an acreage and we rent the pastures) so we sync a...

Bred a group of cows 20-21 days ago. The weather is cool, rainy and cows are corralled in the yard now to see if they cycle again. We only caught one standing heat, but they don't want to jump each other (just lucky to see it) Even with heat patches, standing cow was only jumped a few times and...

We lost the calf. We checked the 4 year old cow an hour earlier and the bag was still intact and calf wasn't even close to birth canal. I checked her 30 minutes later and water bag had just broke. So 30 minutes after that, nothing and put her in chute. My husband reached in and one foot was...

The cow last year, it was gross and the quarter fell off. Any way that something left in soil or pasture could infect my cows this year or was it just a bad case of mastitis that went to the extreme. Do I worry that the nipples are cracking and flaking on this cow?

6 year old beef Cow calved Sunday morning. Everything fine. She cleaned off the calf, but we could tell it hadn't nursed. So we got the cow in the chute and she had no milk in front two quarter. When I milked back two quarters, they were pure blood. Never had issues with the cow before. So...

We are flushing a cow and are near the end of the of shots and my daughter grabbed the wrong bottle. We already have 1 shot of estrumate this morning, but tonight, instead of giving the second shot of estrumate, she gave the GNRH shot. The cow still has the cidr. We are suppose to pull tomorrow...

We had one we pulled and I had to bottle feed it for almost 7 days. We just kept encouraging her to stand. We even used an old fan stand and rope and made a sling so she could nurse on the mama so she would know what to do when she started standing. However, we had one that never did stand. She...

This is pretty cool. This is why I love the cow-calf operation. They are incredible creatures and never cease to amaze me!!

Today I had the vet preg check the last 15 cows and recheck one checked two months ago. On the last two cows, both angus, the vet couldn't check. He said their rectums were so restricted that he couldn't get his hand in them. The thing is, the one was preg checked two months ago and that vet had...

Had a calf born at 3:30 this afternoon and at 9:30 tonight we went out to help the calf nurse. When the calf stood up, with our help, blood sported out at the end of her umbilical cord like a pin hole in a water hose. I tied a string around the cord to slow down the dripping. We had a calf bleed...

I just can't seem to give in yet. milkmaid. I checked the heart sounds with the website you gave and it most resembles the AS "sound". I went back out with my husband to give Apollo some electrolytes and when we were done, he walked around the pen and gave a half buck.He nurses on momma on his...

Just thought I would share as I was reading through the postings and people using cidrs and heat patches. It was suggested to us by another cow producer to use spray paint on the tail heads. Need to determine the paint based on color of cows. We use yellow for black cows, green on red cows and...

Ok, I am a science/math teacher by day, so I brought home a stethoscope today and milkmaid, you were right. Heart murmur. I could hear the swooshing as the heart beat. So based on this, I am guessing the calf has very little probability of making it, correct? We have a twin and will try and...

Calf does not have a temp. I did compare the gums to another black calf as a comparison (good question, never hurts to make sure). So here is the update, calf was born Thursday night (3-20) at about 11 pm. This morning (Sunday 3-23) calf was able get himself up to stand by himself. My...

Maine/ angus cross and she is a second calf heifer. Calf was about 90 pounds and was an easy pull. She could have probably had it herself, but we had to move her to the barn because of bad weather and worried she wouldn't continue to calve after we moved her. Only in hard labor about an hour and...

We had a calf born two nights ago at 11 at night. At 1 am I went out to check to see if it nursed. It was too weak to even stand. So I gave it one quart of colostrum. Checked it again at 4 in the morning and he was still too weak to stand. It took all my strength to get it to stand. He held his...

When the vet posted it, he said the color of the lungs appeared normal. I would describe them as deeper pink. As far as activity, we didn't notice anything out of the ordinary and with a small herd, we check each one for scours signs and make sure each one is nursing. My husband noticed her...