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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 723488" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>Your post got me curious, so I went back over my records. Since 2003 we have had 272 calves. 7 have needed assistance 2.6%. Two with one front leg back, two came backwards, one of which required the calf puller, two were hip locked and required turning, and one was a C-section on a 13 month old heifer whom I didn't realize was pregnant until too late. That one is all my fault. I mistakenly believed since the bulls are out by the time the oldest calf is 5 months, that there was not a danger of heifers getting pregnant. This heifer was bred at 4 months and had a full term calf at 13 months. I also lost 3 calves who had been a twin to a surviving calf. Had I been there to assist I might have saved them. Of the 7 who needed assistance, 3 were heifers (including the 13 month old "mistake", one calf with a foot back, and one hip lock), and 4 were cows. </p><p>From 1993 to 2002 we lost two of 97 calves to dystocia and two suffocated when the cow failed to lick the placenta from his nose. It was the same cow, and yes I was actually stupid enough to give her a second chance when it happened to her as a heifer. She was so pretty. The second time I was down checking her about an hour earlier and came back to find her peacefully grazing several hundred feet from her suffocated calf. Some of us just have to learn everything the hard way. In 2002 I had been talked into using a Simmental bull who was supposedly calving ease. Four of 22 adult cows needed assistance. I had used an unproven Red Angus on my heifers and 4 of 8 needed assistance. The next year I went back to Black Angus bulls.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 723488, member: 9933"] Your post got me curious, so I went back over my records. Since 2003 we have had 272 calves. 7 have needed assistance 2.6%. Two with one front leg back, two came backwards, one of which required the calf puller, two were hip locked and required turning, and one was a C-section on a 13 month old heifer whom I didn't realize was pregnant until too late. That one is all my fault. I mistakenly believed since the bulls are out by the time the oldest calf is 5 months, that there was not a danger of heifers getting pregnant. This heifer was bred at 4 months and had a full term calf at 13 months. I also lost 3 calves who had been a twin to a surviving calf. Had I been there to assist I might have saved them. Of the 7 who needed assistance, 3 were heifers (including the 13 month old "mistake", one calf with a foot back, and one hip lock), and 4 were cows. From 1993 to 2002 we lost two of 97 calves to dystocia and two suffocated when the cow failed to lick the placenta from his nose. It was the same cow, and yes I was actually stupid enough to give her a second chance when it happened to her as a heifer. She was so pretty. The second time I was down checking her about an hour earlier and came back to find her peacefully grazing several hundred feet from her suffocated calf. Some of us just have to learn everything the hard way. In 2002 I had been talked into using a Simmental bull who was supposedly calving ease. Four of 22 adult cows needed assistance. I had used an unproven Red Angus on my heifers and 4 of 8 needed assistance. The next year I went back to Black Angus bulls. [/QUOTE]
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