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<blockquote data-quote="Dana Kopp" data-source="post: 201145" data-attributes="member: 873"><p>We lost a cow earlier in the week, when we found her she was down and had her head stuck in our fence. I would guess that she laid down to chew her cud and rolled back to stretch and caught her head, nothing else makes any better sense. The angle she was at she needed to pull her head horizontal to get it out of the fence then roll to get up - I don't think she physically could do that with the ground angle. We got her moved and sitting up and I spent all day trying to get her to stand, packing her water, etc. She didn't seem to be in pain, just weak and uncoordinated, the vet said we'd probably have to lift her with the tractor to get her legs back underneath her. We tried that night but she fought us more than tried to really stand so we left her and she was sitting up and drinking good. She didn't make it through the night. Obviously something else was happening or had happened during her "down" time in the fence. Her calf nursed every chance he got while she was down - he is probably four weeks old now. Major bummer, she was one of my best cows. We decided that we'd bottle feed the calf so I made a couple bottles and went down to the field. We looked and looked and couldn't find him. Lo and behold he was right where I started looking, EXCEPT he was happily nursing on one of my heifers through the "back door". I wouldn't mind if he was nursing on one of the older cows who could feed two but of course they wouldn't cooperate. So we brought the calf home with another cow that lost her calf about three weeks ago because she was kind of keeping an eye on him. Just on a whim we decided to see if she had any milk, she did, and though we have to put her in the chute to make her hold still she lets him nurse and her milk seems to be slowly coming back. I won't believe it until I see her let him nurse on his own but maybe by the end of the weekend...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dana Kopp, post: 201145, member: 873"] We lost a cow earlier in the week, when we found her she was down and had her head stuck in our fence. I would guess that she laid down to chew her cud and rolled back to stretch and caught her head, nothing else makes any better sense. The angle she was at she needed to pull her head horizontal to get it out of the fence then roll to get up - I don't think she physically could do that with the ground angle. We got her moved and sitting up and I spent all day trying to get her to stand, packing her water, etc. She didn't seem to be in pain, just weak and uncoordinated, the vet said we'd probably have to lift her with the tractor to get her legs back underneath her. We tried that night but she fought us more than tried to really stand so we left her and she was sitting up and drinking good. She didn't make it through the night. Obviously something else was happening or had happened during her "down" time in the fence. Her calf nursed every chance he got while she was down - he is probably four weeks old now. Major bummer, she was one of my best cows. We decided that we'd bottle feed the calf so I made a couple bottles and went down to the field. We looked and looked and couldn't find him. Lo and behold he was right where I started looking, EXCEPT he was happily nursing on one of my heifers through the "back door". I wouldn't mind if he was nursing on one of the older cows who could feed two but of course they wouldn't cooperate. So we brought the calf home with another cow that lost her calf about three weeks ago because she was kind of keeping an eye on him. Just on a whim we decided to see if she had any milk, she did, and though we have to put her in the chute to make her hold still she lets him nurse and her milk seems to be slowly coming back. I won't believe it until I see her let him nurse on his own but maybe by the end of the weekend... [/QUOTE]
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