Fire Sweep Ranch
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We have been busy over here with a bunch of new babies, and I thought I would share some pictures of ones just born in the last 48 hours.
This one was born just two days ago. She is sired by FSSR Steel Fire, a Steel Force embryo bull, and her dam is laying there, a 3 year old sired by Cut Above (Fat Butt). She was 75 pounds, 290 days gestation. She is my son's bred and owned cow and heifer, and he is calling the calf Brianna!
This one is sired by the same bull, out of a Grandmaster 3 year old. The calf was 68 pounds and a bull calf, 285 days gestation.
This is one of my recips, she is a 5 year old cow and had her embryo calf last night...
Here is her embryo calf she had last night, a 3C Macho bull calf... 95 pounds and 286 days gestation.
This poor little thing had a rough start. Her dam is a first calf heifer. She layed down to calve, and got herself cast on the side of a hill. It was around midnight I heard, what sounded like, a calf being attacked. I went outside to see what the noise was, and this calf was out of the heifer, up to her hips, about dry, and trying to get out by banging her head on the ground and screaming/bawling. When I walked out there, I just grabbed her front leg and dragged her around to the head of her dam. She came right out, with the placenta and everything. The heifer that had her would not stand, paralyzed. I do not keep dexamethasone on hand, so the vet met us in town to get some meds (IV) in her to help, and I gave her the Dex IV immediately. The heifer calf has swelling on the side of her face where she banged trying to get out. She could not suck for 12 hours because her jaw and tongue were swollen so I had to tube her with colostrum. All is well now, and the cow is walking with a bit of a limp but much better (just 48 hours ago). The calf's eye also weeps, which I hope is going to heal. I am thinking maybe she scratched her cornea trying to bang her way out of the cow? Notice the swelling in the pic, and the droopy ear? This pic was taken 12 hours after birth. The swelling was down tonight, but she is still pretty weepy in the eye and her ear droops a bit. She was 89 pounds and 289 days gestation.
And here is a pic I took of the new group tonight. The injured heifer calf is the brownish one.The newest one born last night is on the left. All three are just one day apart each.
I love this time of year! New babies and grass is starting to green up and grow!
This one was born just two days ago. She is sired by FSSR Steel Fire, a Steel Force embryo bull, and her dam is laying there, a 3 year old sired by Cut Above (Fat Butt). She was 75 pounds, 290 days gestation. She is my son's bred and owned cow and heifer, and he is calling the calf Brianna!
This one is sired by the same bull, out of a Grandmaster 3 year old. The calf was 68 pounds and a bull calf, 285 days gestation.
This is one of my recips, she is a 5 year old cow and had her embryo calf last night...
Here is her embryo calf she had last night, a 3C Macho bull calf... 95 pounds and 286 days gestation.
This poor little thing had a rough start. Her dam is a first calf heifer. She layed down to calve, and got herself cast on the side of a hill. It was around midnight I heard, what sounded like, a calf being attacked. I went outside to see what the noise was, and this calf was out of the heifer, up to her hips, about dry, and trying to get out by banging her head on the ground and screaming/bawling. When I walked out there, I just grabbed her front leg and dragged her around to the head of her dam. She came right out, with the placenta and everything. The heifer that had her would not stand, paralyzed. I do not keep dexamethasone on hand, so the vet met us in town to get some meds (IV) in her to help, and I gave her the Dex IV immediately. The heifer calf has swelling on the side of her face where she banged trying to get out. She could not suck for 12 hours because her jaw and tongue were swollen so I had to tube her with colostrum. All is well now, and the cow is walking with a bit of a limp but much better (just 48 hours ago). The calf's eye also weeps, which I hope is going to heal. I am thinking maybe she scratched her cornea trying to bang her way out of the cow? Notice the swelling in the pic, and the droopy ear? This pic was taken 12 hours after birth. The swelling was down tonight, but she is still pretty weepy in the eye and her ear droops a bit. She was 89 pounds and 289 days gestation.
And here is a pic I took of the new group tonight. The injured heifer calf is the brownish one.The newest one born last night is on the left. All three are just one day apart each.
I love this time of year! New babies and grass is starting to green up and grow!
