Herford×Angus
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All started about a 10 days ago had a cow that looked sick and didnt eat. I put her in a pen with a bale, i didnt see her eat but she looked full so i thought she was ok, a week later she had sunken eyes so I called the vet she said might be acidosis. Made sense because i had been feeding some barley greenfeed all winter in the snow, so when it started melting i saw the cows going back eating all the grain and hay trampled into the snow during the winter. We took her tempreture to rule out an infection, temp was normal. At this point she couldn't get up anymore so we tubed her with water and meds. The cow died shortly after. Today I had a breech heifer, got the vet to come help out. She's great! Took her about ten minutes to get the calf out. But it was dead. Lucky there was another calf in there still alive . So when i dragged the dead calf to where I had disposed of the dead cow... I was in for a nasty surprise!!
looks like she had a full term calf in her birth canal!! But she showed no sings of calving at all no udder or any indication she was even close. So never crossed my mind to check her. Or is it posible that post mortem bloating pushed the calf into that position?? Post mortem credits go to the coyots