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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 10569"><p>2 anecdotes about toughness. One of the dairys had a cow calve down in a swamp and she couldn't get up, weather was getting nasty so they had to get her to the barn. They hooked a chain to her back legs and dragged her out of the samp and up a hill for a couple of hundred yards, then used the bucket to push her under shelter. Each day they got her up with a set of hip grippers, she'ld eat and lay back down, in the afternoon they would roll her over. They had finally decided to go ahead and put a bullet in her, this was after a month. The next morning she was up and waiting to get into the milk parlor, she peaked in production at 65 lbs a day. Same dairy, cow calved ok but started going off feed a couple of days later. She had a displaced abomosum, vet cut her open, replaced it but didn't stitch it, sewed her up and all was dandy. Couple days later she went off feed again, displaced abomosum again, vet opened her up put it back and stitched it, sewed her up. A couple of weeks later she went off feed again. Vet opened her up and about lost his lunch from the stink. They removed two five gallon buckets of pus from inseide of her, this time they left her opened up so it could heal slowly. A couple of days later she was tearing down the sick pen to get back in the milk string. Open hole and all she went into the string, ater milking they put her back in the sick pens cause she had already started cycling again. She didn't milk all that well, but it didn't matter cause they bred her back on her next heat, still with the open hole almost healed, and she settled. Those are the kinds of cows I like, fight like hell and don't give up. At another dairy saw a cow step on one teat, she never got sick but went off feed and went dry, went down the road to the killers. She had already been fresh almost 6 months and never bred back They be some amazing critters, cows is.</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 10569"] 2 anecdotes about toughness. One of the dairys had a cow calve down in a swamp and she couldn't get up, weather was getting nasty so they had to get her to the barn. They hooked a chain to her back legs and dragged her out of the samp and up a hill for a couple of hundred yards, then used the bucket to push her under shelter. Each day they got her up with a set of hip grippers, she'ld eat and lay back down, in the afternoon they would roll her over. They had finally decided to go ahead and put a bullet in her, this was after a month. The next morning she was up and waiting to get into the milk parlor, she peaked in production at 65 lbs a day. Same dairy, cow calved ok but started going off feed a couple of days later. She had a displaced abomosum, vet cut her open, replaced it but didn't stitch it, sewed her up and all was dandy. Couple days later she went off feed again, displaced abomosum again, vet opened her up put it back and stitched it, sewed her up. A couple of weeks later she went off feed again. Vet opened her up and about lost his lunch from the stink. They removed two five gallon buckets of pus from inseide of her, this time they left her opened up so it could heal slowly. A couple of days later she was tearing down the sick pen to get back in the milk string. Open hole and all she went into the string, ater milking they put her back in the sick pens cause she had already started cycling again. She didn't milk all that well, but it didn't matter cause they bred her back on her next heat, still with the open hole almost healed, and she settled. Those are the kinds of cows I like, fight like hell and don't give up. At another dairy saw a cow step on one teat, she never got sick but went off feed and went dry, went down the road to the killers. She had already been fresh almost 6 months and never bred back They be some amazing critters, cows is. dun [/QUOTE]
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