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<blockquote data-quote="certherfbeef" data-source="post: 73427" data-attributes="member: 190"><p>I always find it amazing the extent we will go to save a critter. When you think about it, it really takes you back a little. This is our livelyhood and for a lot it is the bread and butter. </p><p>Most of us have had calves in our kitchens and in our bath tubs to get them warm. We nearly break our backs to carry an 80 lb squirming baby, with an irritated mamma right behind us, across the field to get it to a safer place. We set up at all hours of the night, in the most horrid weather you can imagine, just to make sure that first calf heifer will be able to do it on her own. We strip the colostrum out of the cow that lost her calf in hopes it will save another. AND, some will even resort to giving a calf mouth to mouth to get it going. All because the recessitator is in the saddle bag and the horse is now several hundred yards away tied to a jigger bush. </p><p>Hope everyone's calving season is moving along smoothly(and uneventful). And for those of you in the warm climates who have calving finished already...you really don't know what you are missing!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="certherfbeef, post: 73427, member: 190"] I always find it amazing the extent we will go to save a critter. When you think about it, it really takes you back a little. This is our livelyhood and for a lot it is the bread and butter. Most of us have had calves in our kitchens and in our bath tubs to get them warm. We nearly break our backs to carry an 80 lb squirming baby, with an irritated mamma right behind us, across the field to get it to a safer place. We set up at all hours of the night, in the most horrid weather you can imagine, just to make sure that first calf heifer will be able to do it on her own. We strip the colostrum out of the cow that lost her calf in hopes it will save another. AND, some will even resort to giving a calf mouth to mouth to get it going. All because the recessitator is in the saddle bag and the horse is now several hundred yards away tied to a jigger bush. Hope everyone's calving season is moving along smoothly(and uneventful). And for those of you in the warm climates who have calving finished already...you really don't know what you are missing!! [/QUOTE]
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