Pinned breed cow with hay bale

[ugabulldog]

I was backing up tractor with a large round bale and a heifer had gotten inside feeder, she is 4-5 mo. breed. I pinned her pretty good. She was up eating and walking around right after. If I hurt the calf would it be a still birth in a couple of days? Could calf die inside her w/out birthing? Is there anything I should do to protect heifer?

 

[dun]

Benign neglect at this point

 

[Supa Dexta]

Could use something better/ more to eat by the looks of them. You'll do more harm to them underfeeding them than squishing them with a hay bale.

 

[greybeard]

I guess he removed the pics?

 

[Craig Miller]

Didn't see the pics but his probably dont look any worse than anybody else's with the drought they are having.

Cows are pretty resilient. Follow duns advice.

 

[wbvs58]

Did it draw blood?

Ken

 

[Black and Good]

Go to famous saying " shee be awww ight" spell check?? LOL :cowboy:

 

[ClinchValley]

Lots of hungry looking cattle around here from what I am seeing. The feeling that someone should do something has crossed my mind on a few instances. Rotating in and out of pastures with 1' of grass at the very most. More poop than grass.

At what point can someone find themselves in trouble? Dead animals laying in the pasture?

 

[farmerjan]

We are lucky in this general area. We had alot of rain so that making first cutting was difficult. Then it dried up got hay made but pastures were lush. Then a little rain , been making late hay and the pastures are a bit dry but not too bad. Had a couple of light frosts, but we will have grass until dec at least at most places. Have the closeby winter pastures ready for when we have to start bringing cattle home and plenty of hay even if we have a severe winter. We are like most and are going to keep back alot of the heifers, have sold nearly all the steers except a couple of big ones to go this next week and 3 or 4 smaller ones that were late spring that will stay until the cows all get preg checked and moved home for winter. Spring calving doesn't start until march. We are 3/4 done with fall calving, and have 75% heifers it seems : :frowns: :frowns: cry2: .... Only had 10 first calf heifers this fall and all 10 done, no problems except losing the one premie and she took a calf so won't lose the lactation. :banana: :banana: We could use some rain as the creeks are getting low. We have tried to not overstock and it shows in the good condition that most all the cattle are in. Got an older cow at one place that looks rough and I will take pour on and try to hit her when I put out more mineral this weekend and see if maybe she just has worms. She is on the possible sell list for next year, so if she doesn't calve will go sooner and if she does calve (was confirmed preg in may for a fall calf) she won't go to the winter pasture but back to the barn to stay the winter in a lot with a couple of other old cows that get fed a little extra and sold in the spring when the calf comes off. Thinking we will sell some heifers in maybe January if prices come up any. Thank goodness we both work other jobs so the payments will get made, but we sure wanted the cattle to make more of them...Had some major repairs to the 4x4 JD that we bought from the friend that passed away from cancer; and it is putting a HUGE hole in the budget this year :shock: :shock: Always something, but that tractor really saved us 2 years ago with all the mud and mess we had to get around in. Hard on fuel though

 

[coachg]

I wouldn't worry about her, the Good Lord designed pregnant females to protect their unborn. Being in the amniotic sac surrounded by the fluid protects them from a lot of injuries. If you broke her "water" I would say that was a bad sign. I'm not a vet but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express one time ! Lol