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Unfortunatelly didn't took any, but the last calf looks like this one: Some had slight deformities in their front legs. Small calves, some pure angus some limx angus.

Anyone had experience with it, possible causes and possible solutions. A friend of ours is dealing with what it looks like it this year. Probably the 7th calf from around 20 calves. Had a couple before as well, but it is too common this year. I have my own guess, but would like to hear other...

Thank you for a description! If she will get better I will try to perform the procedure.

Fingers crossed! Have one cow calving now at an unholy hour... Hopefully everything will go well and quick!

It appears to be, but I have never seen it before in nearly 20 years we had cows. It is a real hard season for all the farmers around here as all kinds of things are happening, alot of misfortune. Could be just a bad year...

She is just 2 days old now. She was born weak, her dam layed down on her and noticed that she is leaking liquid out of the navel when we brought her home yesterday. She is on antibiotics now. It's uncertain if she will survive, but on top of that such thing appeared... It's the first time when I...

Had anyone had such thing with their calf and how to deal with it without surgery? Calf won't survive the surgery yet and I'm pretty certain that she has persistent urachus.

We had very wet summer in 2017, pretty dry, but good enough in 2018. This year the snow went away very early for us, at the first half of March, but had very dry spring. Luckily, we had plenty of snow this winter, so grass still was growing even if without any rain. Know that over regions are...

Vet just culled his 5yo angusx cow, which only had one calf in her life time... Weighed 2138.5lbs. A friend knows, who has an angus cow weighing 2425lbs...I can imagine cows with such weighs of different breeds (Charolais, Blonde, Maine anjou etc.), but angus shouldn't be that heavy. Just my...

It's always an unpleasant view. Can feel that feel of the heart sinking... Remember last year was keeping a pretty close eye on one small heifer due to calve. That day checked her in the morning- nothing. After a couple hours have found her separated from the herd lieing on her side with her...

Don't want them to be over conditioned as well as too skinny. Never had trouble with cows calving, which were on the fatter side, but had some not nice experience with fatter heifers calving. One time it was with fairly big angusx heifer calving with ~110lbs angus calf. Was a very hard pull...

Have a couple. Never done anything. But it is quite a challenge to retag...

Had left some cows which hasn't cleaned properly to clean up themselves. Could see some dirty-white discharge for quite a while. Those would breed back later than usually. We usually choose to treat a small infection happening after retained placenta. It doesn't take long and cows are back in...

Have a couple apple trees in one pasture. Cows love coming to that one in fall when there are plenty of apples on the ground and on the tree itself. They eat everything they can reach- apples, leaves. No harm except of a choking possibility. Never happened here, but it does happen for other...

Feeding hay when it's cold and baleage when it's warmer and it's not frozen. Two groups of cows, fed every second day, sometimes they don't need it for one more day. One group, ~30-35cows +calves, get 4-6bales. Another group, 15cows+calves, get 2-4bales. No creep. Feed made from naturally...

Sorry to hear that. It seems that when where is one problem, more will come soon after. Hopefully, it'll end soon for you. For the past 2-3 years we'd lots of problems. This year it seems to be quite good, except for only one lost calf, and it was a bull calf thankfully.

The lowest temp here which I remember was -31F. Luckily the lowest this year was -4. Last year it was down to -15 and we had some cows calving then. Remember covering calves deeply in bedding and leaving them for the night. If temp was as low as -60, there would be very few survivors...

Sorry to hear that. At least it won't be a complete loss for you...

Sorry for your loss. Many years ago had lost a cow, when her calf was only five weeks old. Left her be with her herd. She started stealing from other cows in a short time, but it took a very long time for her to be in a good condition. She looked way skinnier than other calves until around...

Calf 12hours after birth. Another one...