DavisBeefmasters
Well-known member
Hi all,
We have a cow due to calf on 4/25. Over the weekend she started coming up very slowly to eat and moving her rear legs REALLY slowly and cautiously. We live in California, and everything is just soaked this year, no way to get them out of the mud right now... all the cows are walking slowly with the mud, but she is slower than the rest, but also with her weight was up to the first knuckle in some of the soft spots of the pasture.
I moved her into a different pasture with the heifer calves we're weaning that is about a foot higher than the others for more solid footing (also closer to the house for me to watch her). She walked fine when moving her in.
Do you think she strained her back legs? or am I just expecting a very large bull calf?
Any opinions (including the direct blunt approach) welcome.
We have a cow due to calf on 4/25. Over the weekend she started coming up very slowly to eat and moving her rear legs REALLY slowly and cautiously. We live in California, and everything is just soaked this year, no way to get them out of the mud right now... all the cows are walking slowly with the mud, but she is slower than the rest, but also with her weight was up to the first knuckle in some of the soft spots of the pasture.
I moved her into a different pasture with the heifer calves we're weaning that is about a foot higher than the others for more solid footing (also closer to the house for me to watch her). She walked fine when moving her in.
Do you think she strained her back legs? or am I just expecting a very large bull calf?
Any opinions (including the direct blunt approach) welcome.