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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 1087269" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>Exactly what Jerry said; I've done it a few times & getting on for being a 'little old lady' myself.</p><p>Depending on how long she'd been calving, the cow probably wasn't in any danger for waiting another hour or two. Culling the cow at that point just seems wrong on a lot of levels. She might have been a cull anyway after delivering a dead calf, but strictly speaking she's not eligible for slaughter till healed up from calving. Three to four weeks after calving is the guidelines I've usually been given.</p><p></p><p>Correcting a breech can be a little time consuming but it's not difficult, even if you've never done it before. The calf is pulled backwards once the feet are up, just the same as any other backwards calf... pull down till the hips show then fast, straight out (when the hips show the chest is constricted and the calf may try to breathe) and immediately lift the calf by the hind legs to drain the lungs (I'm small, so I usually lift where the hind legs are attached to the hips to ensure the head is off the ground).</p><p>I don't recall what proportion of my breech calves were alive/dead but within the last three years have had two, one live, one dead, both had shown signs of 'about to calve' the live one probably over fifteen hours before, the dead one seven or eight hours before I checked internally - with the bum coming first it's not uncommon for the cow to show no sign of being in labour.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 1087269, member: 9267"] Exactly what Jerry said; I've done it a few times & getting on for being a 'little old lady' myself. Depending on how long she'd been calving, the cow probably wasn't in any danger for waiting another hour or two. Culling the cow at that point just seems wrong on a lot of levels. She might have been a cull anyway after delivering a dead calf, but strictly speaking she's not eligible for slaughter till healed up from calving. Three to four weeks after calving is the guidelines I've usually been given. Correcting a breech can be a little time consuming but it's not difficult, even if you've never done it before. The calf is pulled backwards once the feet are up, just the same as any other backwards calf... pull down till the hips show then fast, straight out (when the hips show the chest is constricted and the calf may try to breathe) and immediately lift the calf by the hind legs to drain the lungs (I'm small, so I usually lift where the hind legs are attached to the hips to ensure the head is off the ground). I don't recall what proportion of my breech calves were alive/dead but within the last three years have had two, one live, one dead, both had shown signs of 'about to calve' the live one probably over fifteen hours before, the dead one seven or eight hours before I checked internally - with the bum coming first it's not uncommon for the cow to show no sign of being in labour. [/QUOTE]
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