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I had one almost exactly like that last year. She was really slow to get up and then I had to feed her. I fed her, kept her going for weeks until it became obvious that there was more than one problem going on. When we put her down, I had a good look inside her mouth: her palate simply wasn't...

I would have kept this one going if she'd fed for herself. Bottling her twice a day and then having to cut her food would have been far too much to go on with. We don't know what caused it other than chance since we've excluded BVD, Lepto, any of the other diseases mentioned. Possibly the...

I had a "hare lip" calf this season. Born live, missing half her hard palate, her nasal passage was open in her mouth, bottom jaw had grown into the gap. She couldn't suckle properly, obviously had numerous other developmental issues and I put her down a couple of weeks ago. She was never...

No Santa hats here, far too hot.

Congratulations! I'm about to hit 25 years here. Time sure flew. :)

You didn't cut her open for a look? I can't bear not to know what caused a death in cases like that when you will often find a really obvious cause. I had one like yours and it turned out she had a necrotic bladder, possibly from trauma during a too-long delivery several weeks beforehand; or...

What a gross, sexist, arsehole t-shirt!

When you've trained them up, could you send them back here to help with some fencing? :D

What's a Kiwi in this context?

Fantastic. Things like that can really take off as sales platforms. Here we had a local start-up that always rivalled ebay, simply because it was local and "ours" not US-based. Naturally it was eventually bought by someone off-shore but it was good for a decade or more.

Most of my "assists" get checked early if I'm suspicious (because I've learnt the "too late" lesson) and if the calf is presenting properly, or even if I've had to bring it up/round/into the right position, if there's no reason to pull it (like a backwards one), I let her out into a small yard...

Do you have a very large hand, or is it just a visual effect of the glove color? It does not make him or any part of him look especially impressive size-wise. You are obviously someone who wishes to gather attention.

I called the vet out to help me with the last one I didn't pull myself. As the guy drove in and got out of his truck, there was a wet slop noise and we shone the light over in the pen and the calf was on the ground. It's the only one I've ever seen and I too remembered seeing somewhere that...

Sometimes here: 35°10'35.89"S, 173°18'44.10"E. Always nearby. CT since whenever the date says.

I've just finished mating a few days ago: I was able to inseminate/have mated all the animals in my list (34 cows & heifers) within 24 days. I put a couple of home-bred yearling bulls out after insem and only one cow came back on heat. Even those heifers I hadn't been able to inseminate...

Looks like a nice little heifer to me. :)

I was reminded last night that a three-day following bull means the cow is actually coming on heat. She doesn't smell interesting for that long when it's a pregnant three-week date. Ah well, another nice calf from my yearling bull instead of the Aussie sire I gave her first.

I often see a three-week cycle "interest" in the just-pregnant cows. My bull has been following one of the cows around for the last three days but there doesn't seem to be anything happening apart from his interest. He seemed similarly taken with another yesterday, on her three-week date...

I had a 2012-born heifer we had to shoot at 20 months. She had some weird (presume genetic) abnormality where her feet, front and back, wouldn't stop growing. She became so slipper-footed that she had to kneel to eat. I kept hoping she'd come right and the guy with the gun was injured, so I...

271 days from mating/insem is my signal! Udders vary too much to be a good indicator. Pelvic ligament softening is often a really good one to watch but even that varies widely. But there's usually a bit of soft dipping in front of the pin bones in the few hours before calving that wasn't...