I went to work yesterday and about midday got a phone call that our first calf had arrived. Normally I would be real excited to hear this but not on August 20th we usually start calving the heifers about mid September and really get fired off by the first week of October and finish up by the middle of November. So what the heck happened? Last year one of my favorite cows (I have pictured her on this forum) Fink Pride 065 we penned her up after she calved because she was a bit gimpy and we wanted to make sure she was ok, we left her short penned where we could AI her instead of natural service for fear of an injury (she is getting old and we want to flush her) I have no record of any bull getting into a pen with her, but aparently someone did cause based on her AI date she was due to calve on Oct 10th. This calf is no way premature 75 pound bull calf so DNA is in his future. That was just the beginning of a really bad day, the next phone call was to tell me that 416H was dead....wth I checked the cows myself on Sat. She was out grazing looking really good for an almost 15year old cow. I don't have a clue what happened to her, she was not trying to calve, I guess she could of just had a heart attack loseing one like her is like loseing an old and trusted friend, sometimes life just gives you lemons and yesterday was one of them. The only good thing I can find is 065 should be in good shape to flush this year for sure.
