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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 1171705" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>I din;t read through the whole thread so here goes. Several years ago there was a rash of newborn calves being found freshly delivered but cleaned off. It was sort of a mystery until we had a calf born and I happened to be standing there when it happened. Calf came out no problems and the cow started cleaning the AB from the rear to the front but she couldn;t tear the sack. I hopped the fence and tried to tear it and couldn;t so I had to use my knife to get a hole started at the head. The sack still didn;t tear so I slit it the full length. Turns out the sack was very thick and tough. Talked to vet and told him and he had discovered the same thing when he had to pull a calf for a client. We surmised that a possible reason for the dead calves was the inability of the cows or the calves to tear the sack and it would sufocate once the umbilical was broken. We watched a lot closer the rest of that calving season and had another one a week or so later the same way. All the others seemed to be ok. When I would see a new born I would hustle out and try (operative word) to get the sack away from the cow so I could check it. For us, none of the others were like that. Never had seen that before or since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 1171705, member: 34"] I din;t read through the whole thread so here goes. Several years ago there was a rash of newborn calves being found freshly delivered but cleaned off. It was sort of a mystery until we had a calf born and I happened to be standing there when it happened. Calf came out no problems and the cow started cleaning the AB from the rear to the front but she couldn;t tear the sack. I hopped the fence and tried to tear it and couldn;t so I had to use my knife to get a hole started at the head. The sack still didn;t tear so I slit it the full length. Turns out the sack was very thick and tough. Talked to vet and told him and he had discovered the same thing when he had to pull a calf for a client. We surmised that a possible reason for the dead calves was the inability of the cows or the calves to tear the sack and it would sufocate once the umbilical was broken. We watched a lot closer the rest of that calving season and had another one a week or so later the same way. All the others seemed to be ok. When I would see a new born I would hustle out and try (operative word) to get the sack away from the cow so I could check it. For us, none of the others were like that. Never had seen that before or since. [/QUOTE]
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