Yesterday evening the wife noticed one of our heifers acting funny .. we were outside boiling crawfish when she saw her pacing and balling .. problem is she was only 13 months old . She never swelled up on the backend and yesterday was the first signs of bag swelling. She tried for about an hour before we tried to help .. she was only 600 pounds at the most. The calf was so big I couldn't get the head through the pelvis. Both its front legs would barley fit through. I tried for 2 and a half hours to pull it because none of the vets would answer the phone. I'm guessing good Friday had something to do with it .. calf stopped showing signs of life and she gave up and layed down in the shoot.
About midnight I sent the wife and kids inside and stopped her suffering .. dang heifer had to of bred at 4 months old .. I wrote down when she was born last year .. from now on if I keep one she's getting lute when I pull her off the cow .
Bad thing is her mom calved at 16 months old . I should have known to lute her because of that.
I cut the calf out this morning and it weighed 105 lbs on my scale we hang deer on .. it's head was almost wouldn't fit in a 5 gallon bucket .
About midnight I sent the wife and kids inside and stopped her suffering .. dang heifer had to of bred at 4 months old .. I wrote down when she was born last year .. from now on if I keep one she's getting lute when I pull her off the cow .
Bad thing is her mom calved at 16 months old . I should have known to lute her because of that.
I cut the calf out this morning and it weighed 105 lbs on my scale we hang deer on .. it's head was almost wouldn't fit in a 5 gallon bucket .