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Yes, you are right. It would have been easier for all involved.

I want to thank all of you for your responses. It really helped, and all of you were so understand and have been through so much yourselves. It was nice to find this site to be able to discuss what was going on and get some answers to questions and thoughts we had. Mom cow is not a happy...

The hooves fell off of the calf this weekend. We put her down. She was so strong otherwise it was very sad.

We noticed the calves hoof around 3:00 in the afternoon and the vet probably came around 5:30 or after. He put the chains on and pulled until she came out. Yesterday we noticed that it looked like on both back legs the dew claws were red and the inside hoof was worn away. Which seems odd...

Sorry for the questions, but you seemed to have a similar problem. When it was a calf did it take awhile to come around or because of what you knew it went through you knew there was some doubt. I just ask because I wonder if we are doing the right thing just waiting to see if she can pull...

What type of leg problems? Did they freeze because of the cold? Being bent over like they were? No circulation and cold on top of it? As long as our calf is able to get up and eat and seems very alert we will hope for the best and maybe she can pull through.

Baytril was given for a cough and slightly runny nose from the vet. I know my post got long and may have not sounded as I intended. We understand now how bad of a time of year it was to calve and have learned a big lesson. The cow was in heat at the time and in asking around we were told that...

We had a calf born 1/17/05. In WI it had just turned bitter cold that day. The calf was backwards and we had an emergency call to the vet and he pulled her with a calf jack. We had a nice bedding of straw and she was in a loafing shed with part of it tarped and out of the wind. The vet said...