coachg
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My daily Bible reading truly fits my past 2 days . Found a 5 year old cow in labor late yesterday, didn't really think anything about it , her 3 rd calf . Left that pasture and went to the big pasture and found a dead cow . No obvious injuries or reason for her being dead . Got significant rain over the weekend and grass has green back up . So back to check on the first one . No sign of her . I looked everywhere. Pulled a Houdini on me . Not much sleep last night so went up early. Deep in the woods below the pond ; still no calf so I drive her to the catch lot . Call the vet and he has a full morning of surgeries , so bring her and he'll work me in . Loaded no problem . Drove 30 minutes to his office . Surgeries all had canceled . So he starts on her . Calf upside down and in a weird head between its leg position . Doc worked for 45 minutes and finally got something to pull . No luck . Finally start to remove parts , head , legs but can't get other legs to pull . Worse pull I've ever been a part of .
Doc says it may be his worse ever . After almost 3 hours he looks at me and says he's sorry but he can't get it . I understood. He worked his tail off to get the calf . I was resigned to bringing her home and putting her down but he has talked me into waiting on her . He says sometimes they will mummify a dead calf and I could sell her in the weigh pen if she makes it in a 2-3 weeks .
And to make a bad day even worse one of our farm ponds has had a turnover oxygen depletion and the fish are dead and dying . Not buying lotto tickets anytime soon .
Doc says it may be his worse ever . After almost 3 hours he looks at me and says he's sorry but he can't get it . I understood. He worked his tail off to get the calf . I was resigned to bringing her home and putting her down but he has talked me into waiting on her . He says sometimes they will mummify a dead calf and I could sell her in the weigh pen if she makes it in a 2-3 weeks .
And to make a bad day even worse one of our farm ponds has had a turnover oxygen depletion and the fish are dead and dying . Not buying lotto tickets anytime soon .