Bad Luck and a Decision

[SteppedInIt]

2nd heifer prolapsed. Vet says I would be throwing money away to perform the surgery. Heifer won't get up. Either a bullet or try to get her to a butcher. Don't think she would taste good after all that stress. What do y'all think?

 

[Jogeephus]

Bullet would be my choice.

 

[bball]

Bullet would be my choice.

+1.

 

[Margonme]

I agree. Sorry for your bad fortunes.

 

[Nesikep]

Meat would be tough, but would do OK as burger. Crappy deal, sorry to hear it

 

[dun]

Bullet

 

[True Grit Farms]

Bullet, the meat doesn't make good dog food. It will have a stink to it that you probably can't handle. My family couldn't handle it and the two other folk's I gave the meat to threw it out.

 

[Workinonit Farm]

Bullet.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[HDRider]

Dog food.

 

[cowgirl8]

Bullet, the meat doesn't make good dog food. It will have a stink to it that you probably can't handle. My family couldn't handle it and the two other folk's I gave the meat to threw it out.

Yeah, do not bother with the meat....not only does it smell, the meat would be watery. Didnt listen to advice, we were hungry, and had one processed. Ended up giving it to a local place who has lions and tigers.. You'd think burger wouldnt matter, but it did, it was awful..
I'd go with your vet, sad..Although, does she have any movement in either back leg? I'm sure you've already had it done...but with a heifer, if she has one good leg her chances are pretty good, better than if she were an older cow. But, with the added prolapse, i'm guessing it would be best......

 

[jerry27150]

old vet we used to have claimed hormones at freshening time made the meat tender, we have put a lot of them into hamburger over the years. vet would even take some that other guys said they wouldn't.

 

[jerry27150]

if you are going to eat her, shoot & gut soon. why wouldn't vet push prolapse back in, unless they have been stepped on or ripped up he should have been able to do it. old man had a vet like that once, didn't want to put them back but old man insisted & cow was fine.

 

[Kingfisher]

Get a better vet or fix it your self. Then eat her.

 

[SteppedInIt]

I have had no luck with vets around here. Since our area has grown it seems they go for easy money. He said you need to get to a prolapse within 45 minutes. Also said if he could get it back in, the artery would rupture. Said his success rate is 1 out of 6. This is my first dealings w a prolapse. I would have done it myself if I had seen it done.

 

[greybeard]

Sorry the gawds didn't smile on you with this one Stepped in it. Good luck and bad luck probably come in equal portions, but we just don't notice the good luck as much since it don't cost us anything. I've never seen a prolapse either, so that's good luck but it could change in a few weeks.

I've seen youtube vids of one being put back in, but after listening to Baxter Black's dissertation on it, I think it's beyond my present schoolin..

 

[Nesikep]

It's definitely true that a prolapse is some of the hardest work out there, up there with C sections. I was a kid the first and last time we had a uterine prolapse around here so I've never really had any real firsthand experience fixing it, but I know it was at the 4-6 hour mark when she got put back right-side-in, it was a neighboring rancher that did it for us. I have had LOTS or experience with vaginal prolapses.. last one was a 12 year old cow that prolapsed at breeding time, took me a day to get her up into the pens to work with her, and then LOTS of washing a very crusty thing by that time, and another half hour of wrangling to get it back in.. it stayed, she didn't infect, and I think she actually bred.. didn't see her come into heat again.

 

[cowgirl8]

I have had no luck with vets around here. Since our area has grown it seems they go for easy money. He said you need to get to a prolapse within 45 minutes. Also said if he could get it back in, the artery would rupture. Said his success rate is 1 out of 6. This is my first dealings w a prolapse. I would have done it myself if I had seen it done.

There is never rhyme or reason as to the outcome of this. We've had 2, both went on to a sale barn after a couple months. One struggled and took longer and i'm guessing we lost money when you consider the bill for it....My daughter had one last spring where she got it to the vet pretty quick. Vet shoved it back in and an artery burst and she fell over dead in his chute...and you still get a bill..
Getting them back in is not easy. Our vet uses a baseball bat and about 4 helpers.. One of the cows we took there stood all day waiting once we got her there. We took her like 5 min after it happened thinking he'd get to her quick, but nope, she stood there for hours..poor thing..... I posted a picture of her somewhere in this forum. Traumatized me.. Pulled her calf in the chute, as i bent in to tend to the calf, i felt something big land on my shoulder. Thinking it was afterbirth i laughed and turned in horror at the sight..lol Now i panic any time we pull a calf that the cow must stand up or we get her in the chute tight enough there is no way she can go down, specially sitting...

 

[Nesikep]

Whenever I do work on a cows rear side in the chute I lay some 4" straps down so I can at least have something to lift her with.. getting something under them when they're already down is no fun job!

 

[cowgirl8]

Whenever I do work on a cows rear side in the chute I lay some 4" straps down so I can at least have something to lift her with.. getting something under them when they're already down is no fun job!

We usually squeeze them where they cant go down, but for some reason she did.... We also have a big pole we put behind them that pushes their bodies forward. Maybe for some reason we took the pole out, or didnt get it in there good. I still panic, it was pretty tramaitic lol

 

[Lucky_P]

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