ThumbHereford
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Well, learning quite a bit this year..... At 7:15 AM EST we had our first breech birth ever at the farm. The one cow on the farm that we hoped everything would smoothly go with, went chaotically instead. I had already left for work (I work off farm too), wife called calf was coming backwards, she called the vet and vet said to leave it alone, and that they were on the way. By the time she had went to the house to get calf equipment, the cow had pushed the calf out. Now I can see this all unfold because I have setup cameras all around the farm, I'm watching this lifeless calf lay there and the cow aggressively trying to lick and nudge it back to life, and in runs my wife with the resuscitator and starts pumping oxygen into this calf and it stirs to life!!! We got a great 85lb heifer calf already up nursing and walking, vet found a baseball size fetus in the uterus of the cow, he figures it aborted early on....Things I learned today, the power of prayer, my wife is awesome, and I got one helluva cow.