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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1449185" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>I hit one with the bush-hog about a month ago; nice blaze-faced calf out of my wife's favorite heifer. I had been clipping ragweeds in the field right behind the house... knew just about where the heifer had put him down... mowed right past him and decided to quit while I was ahead. </p><p>Next day, she and the other heifer with a calf in that field had moved them across the ditch - and, I thought, up the hollow to the trees, so I finished that little patch, then decided to mow my orchard/nutgrove... She'd put him across the fence into a big clump of blackberries at the edge of the nutgrove. I was on top of him before I knew he was there. Made me SICK! Chopped one of his back legs off just below the hock, and knocked his tail off. We took him to the barn, sewed and bandaged him up, and got the heifer up with him. He did good, and was growing like a weed for about 3 weeks, then went septic and we ended up putting him down. </p><p>That day, we had a 5-6yo cow calve out with huge teats that her calf couldn't nurse, and we could barely milk... so we switched her calf over to the heifer whose calf I bush-hogged... she took him easier than any calf we ever tried to graft. Big-titted cow laid down and died about 3 days later... before I could get her to the salebarn. </p><p>Little bit of good... but a whole lot of stupid on my part.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1449185, member: 12607"] I hit one with the bush-hog about a month ago; nice blaze-faced calf out of my wife's favorite heifer. I had been clipping ragweeds in the field right behind the house... knew just about where the heifer had put him down... mowed right past him and decided to quit while I was ahead. Next day, she and the other heifer with a calf in that field had moved them across the ditch - and, I thought, up the hollow to the trees, so I finished that little patch, then decided to mow my orchard/nutgrove... She'd put him across the fence into a big clump of blackberries at the edge of the nutgrove. I was on top of him before I knew he was there. Made me SICK! Chopped one of his back legs off just below the hock, and knocked his tail off. We took him to the barn, sewed and bandaged him up, and got the heifer up with him. He did good, and was growing like a weed for about 3 weeks, then went septic and we ended up putting him down. That day, we had a 5-6yo cow calve out with huge teats that her calf couldn't nurse, and we could barely milk... so we switched her calf over to the heifer whose calf I bush-hogged... she took him easier than any calf we ever tried to graft. Big-titted cow laid down and died about 3 days later... before I could get her to the salebarn. Little bit of good... but a whole lot of stupid on my part. [/QUOTE]
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