Aborted calf???

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Fly-guy

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I found the hide from an aborted calf while checking our cattle yesterday. The conditions here are: extremely dry, over 100 degrees for about 50 days so far this summer, no known weeds with high nitrates, good water and they've been on this pasture for about three weeks now.

I bought a ton of DDG about a week and a half ago and have been feeding 2 pounds a day. The DDG protine content is 26% and I am wondering if this might be a factor.

Does any one have an idea what caused the cow to abort?

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Could be anything. The heat is certainly a factor. I lost one 3 weeks ago that I attributed to heat. Sometimes it just happens. Could be lepto - though I believe those are typically early term abortions. Poison weeds / trees are a concern - unless you know for positive there's nothing out there.
 
Lost two calfs to neosporosis at about 5-6 months of term. You might want to have her tested by a vet. Calf looks like a roping dummy with sunken eyes. Dogs and coyotes spread the disease thru feces in hay or pasture grazing. From what I have been told it is becoming more of a problem down in Texas.
 
I don't have any idea which cow aborted and I would have missed finding it if it hadn't been for a plastic sack that blew into the pasture.

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