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Lucky? Genetic disorder causing enlarged abdomen?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1356907" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>As for the breeding of the heifer, she was bred to her mothers full brother and her own 3/4 brother (the home-raised bull) that had the best birthweight of any bull calf born here (~80 lbs), who was born in a couple minutes and wasn't a blockhead.. It was a better choice than breeding her to the limo that I had 3 close calls on 4 heifers the year before (2 of those needed the calf puller). The other 6 calves of his were born without assistance and had good BW's.. chalk it up to a freak thing, there certainly wasn't any heterosis in that mating!</p><p></p><p>As for making the right calls, I saw her calving, after a short while of no progress I went for a feel, got the chains and puller, pulled a little, said screw this, there's no way it's coming out without killing both of them, and called the vet and stopped fiddling with her.. it took him 4 hours to get here, and in that time the calf died</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1356907, member: 9096"] As for the breeding of the heifer, she was bred to her mothers full brother and her own 3/4 brother (the home-raised bull) that had the best birthweight of any bull calf born here (~80 lbs), who was born in a couple minutes and wasn't a blockhead.. It was a better choice than breeding her to the limo that I had 3 close calls on 4 heifers the year before (2 of those needed the calf puller). The other 6 calves of his were born without assistance and had good BW's.. chalk it up to a freak thing, there certainly wasn't any heterosis in that mating! As for making the right calls, I saw her calving, after a short while of no progress I went for a feel, got the chains and puller, pulled a little, said screw this, there's no way it's coming out without killing both of them, and called the vet and stopped fiddling with her.. it took him 4 hours to get here, and in that time the calf died [/QUOTE]
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