Hate that for you. Allowing them to be in a fence with a trailer, is also a good way to have your wires chewed and pulled off, etc.Oh no. I'm sorry you lost the calf. That is a crazy way for one to go. I wonder what in the world that calf was trying to do? I know my family think I'm overly paranoid about reducing risks for potential issues for our cattle, but I tell them all the time ours are born looking for a way to kill or injure themselves. The best you can do to prevent it, they find new ways to do it.
I notice the member is from Missouri, is it possible that the trailer has been used this winter where roads had been salted? I have seen cattle lick trucks, tractors, trailers, even if they had available minerals.That's a new one on me and I'm sorry it happened to ya. Scratching it's head or neck maybe?
The way things go sometimes it seems like that's what I'm trying to do.Despite our best effort we can't kill them all.
I'd go with that maybe or just being curious. Saw @kenny thomas say maybe salt, have loose mineral/salt out for them but I did haul with ice on the road over the winter so there could be salt. We have had really heavy rains I would think would wash some off.That's a new one on me and I'm sorry it happened to ya. Scratching its head or neck maybe?
Yep, my fault 100%. Didn't even cross my mind something like that would happen. Expensive lesson learned.Hate that for you. Allowing them to be in a fence with a trailer, is also a good way to have your wires chewed and pulled off, etc.
My Granddad had a cow stick her head through a forked tree. I wish she would have raised her head up. She hadn't even been missed when I happened across her while hunting. Nothing I did convinced her, so I went to get Granddad and he brought a rope. Pitched it over a limb and around her chin to assist her and she backed out with a little swat on the nose. Good thing she wasn't in heat.Sorry to see that... whether he was scratching or nosy, when most animals get "stuck... even a little... their natural reaction seems to be to pick head up, pull up... so he would've been pulling up which would have gotten his head up further... instead of simply putting it down to get it out.
We had a yearling heifer get stuck like that a couple of years ago. Thankfully, she was in the front pasture right by the driveway. My husband saw her as he was headed to town. He ended up getting her to raise her head by hand feeding her a couple of cubes and then holding a cube above her nose. When she raised her head chasing the cube, he popped her in the nose and she backed out. Disaster averted......she recently had her second calf.My Granddad had a cow stick her head through a forked tree. I wish she would have raised her head up. She hadn't even been missed when I happened across her while hunting. Nothing I did convinced her, so I went to get Granddad and he brought a rope. Pitched it over a limb and around her chin to assist her and she backed out with a little swat on the nose. Good thing she wasn't in heat.