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<blockquote data-quote="Wisteria Farms" data-source="post: 657933" data-attributes="member: 6734"><p>You have NO IDEA...how I feel your pain...</p><p>We had a heifer getting ready to calve...knew it would be in the next few days. Friends asked us to go to dinner on Saturday night (my birthday was Sunday) so we go. As it turns out "dinner" was actually a suprise 40th birthday party for ME. I hated it. We get home I look in the shed and she's laying by the fence so I think to myself, "ok..she's sleeping" I go to bed...husband wakes up early and checks and as he's hollering "OMG"...I look out and shes in the SAME POSITION. I freak out, run out there and sure enough hidden in the bedding is her calf...dead...she's on her side and cant get up. I get a halter on her and between husband and I we get her up. She can barely stand but stays upright. Calf (bullcalf) was perfect but stone cold. Placenta all expelled and looks good. She simply needed a little help and WE WERENT THERE. </p><p></p><p>I will NEVER let my guard down again. I am so mad at myself you can't begin to imagine. I didn't want to post my "stupidity" but figure maybe someone will hear my advice...Check your cows, check your cows, check your cows and don't leave unless you absolutely have to. I'm so sorry for the loss of twins MItch...all I can think is "Please God...give me another calf soon so I move on..."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wisteria Farms, post: 657933, member: 6734"] You have NO IDEA...how I feel your pain... We had a heifer getting ready to calve...knew it would be in the next few days. Friends asked us to go to dinner on Saturday night (my birthday was Sunday) so we go. As it turns out "dinner" was actually a suprise 40th birthday party for ME. I hated it. We get home I look in the shed and she's laying by the fence so I think to myself, "ok..she's sleeping" I go to bed...husband wakes up early and checks and as he's hollering "OMG"...I look out and shes in the SAME POSITION. I freak out, run out there and sure enough hidden in the bedding is her calf...dead...she's on her side and cant get up. I get a halter on her and between husband and I we get her up. She can barely stand but stays upright. Calf (bullcalf) was perfect but stone cold. Placenta all expelled and looks good. She simply needed a little help and WE WERENT THERE. I will NEVER let my guard down again. I am so mad at myself you can't begin to imagine. I didn't want to post my "stupidity" but figure maybe someone will hear my advice...Check your cows, check your cows, check your cows and don't leave unless you absolutely have to. I'm so sorry for the loss of twins MItch...all I can think is "Please God...give me another calf soon so I move on..." [/QUOTE]
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