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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1205364" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>A couple of years ago I went to check on the progress of a heifer calving and from about 25m away I could hear this very loud deep hyperventilating and I am very deaf. The calf was putting in the real big ones heaving in the flanks and had the membranes over it's head, the heifer was licking it but at the other end hadn't got to the head yet. I tore the membranes from around the head and left the heifer to it and she finished cleaning it up and the calf quickly recovered. If I had been another couple of minutes the calf would have been dead and if I had been a half hour later I am sure I would have found what you did, a dead calf all cleaned up with no sign of the membranes.</p><p>I was always told that a chunk of lung tissue put in a bucket of water will float if the calf has breathed but sink if no breath but Lucky has much more experience with this than me and can say whether correct or not.</p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1205364, member: 16453"] A couple of years ago I went to check on the progress of a heifer calving and from about 25m away I could hear this very loud deep hyperventilating and I am very deaf. The calf was putting in the real big ones heaving in the flanks and had the membranes over it's head, the heifer was licking it but at the other end hadn't got to the head yet. I tore the membranes from around the head and left the heifer to it and she finished cleaning it up and the calf quickly recovered. If I had been another couple of minutes the calf would have been dead and if I had been a half hour later I am sure I would have found what you did, a dead calf all cleaned up with no sign of the membranes. I was always told that a chunk of lung tissue put in a bucket of water will float if the calf has breathed but sink if no breath but Lucky has much more experience with this than me and can say whether correct or not. Ken [/QUOTE]
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