Pregnant Cow acting in heat?

[Trixie Club Calves]

I have 6 cows who are due any day now, and I have a couple cows who are open on the other side of the fence. They seem to be in heat today. One of my pregnant cows (due 3-16-24) has a tight looking udder, and swollen vulva looking pretty close. Starting this morning she has been going crazy over the cows that are in heat. Following them up and down the fence, mooing at them. Is that a normal thing for them to do? She’s almost acting like she’s in heat too.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

I've had plenty of cows do it, some even mount and ride one another. Hormones are all out of wack during pregnancy.

 

[moses388]

They are pregnant, but still sexually active. That's what I have been told. ...Is it possible one of the cows calved? And maybe the calf went through the fence and is hiding?

 

[Trixie Club Calves]

They are pregnant, but still sexually active. That's what I have been told. ...Is it possible one of the cows calved? And maybe the calf went through the fence and is hiding?

No, we’ve been watching them all day/night. She’s just been chilling and acting normal till this morning when they came in heat and no has been going nuts lol

 

[ez14.]

A false heat shortly before calving is pretty common

 

[Trixie Club Calves]

A false heat shortly before calving is pretty common

How long before usually?

 

[ez14.]

How long before usually?

Seems like they usually calve within a week. But I've seen false heats 3 weeks before calving. Just guessing from what you said I'd think you'll have a calf sometime this week

 

[TCRanch]

What @ez14. said. And fighting! Not unusual to see cows going at it shortly before and after calving. Raging hormones, figuratively and literally.

 

[Trixie Club Calves]

Momma had her heifer calf Momma had her heifer calf around 10 pm last night.
We had to bring her in cause she got so cold, tubed her and she warmed up after a while and was super alert. Standing, trying to walk around. Her hocks pretty much bend the wrong way, one is way worse than the other. Took her to the vet and she got her worse leg splinted. Walking a lot better now. Has anyone ever dealt with something like this?

 

[GoWyo]

May have been wadded up wrong in the womb. Hopefully straightens up in the next week or so.

 

[Trixie Club Calves]

May have been wadded up wrong in the womb. Hopefully straightens up in the next week or so.

Vet thinks it was either that or something genetic from the cow. Hoping she gets better and not worse

 

[Travlr]

View attachment 55281View attachment 55282Momma had her heifer calf Momma had her heifer calf around 10 pm last night.
We had to bring her in cause she got so cold, tubed her and she warmed up after a while and was super alert. Standing, trying to walk around. Her hocks pretty much bend the wrong way, one is way worse than the other. Took her to the vet and she got her worse leg splinted. Walking a lot better now. Has anyone ever dealt with something like this?

This looks like the same thing that was mentioned on another thread yesterday.

congenital chondrodystrophy

 

[Hereford2]

Any crooked legs we have had we left them to straighten out on their own and they always did

 

[Trixie Club Calves]

Any crooked legs we have had we left them to straighten out on their own and they always did

Good to hear. We left the one that’s not as bad. The other one was so bad that it was hard for her to walk cause it would buckle in and be unstable. And vet was worried it would cause more damage. She’s doing so much better with the splint, a lot more peppy too. Still trying to figure out the whole nursing thing.

 

[liberty jersey]

View attachment 55281View attachment 55282Momma had her heifer calf Momma had her heifer calf around 10 pm last night.
We had to bring her in cause she got so cold, tubed her and she warmed up after a while and was super alert. Standing, trying to walk around. Her hocks pretty much bend the wrong way, one is way worse than the other. Took her to the vet and she got her worse leg splinted. Walking a lot better now. Has anyone ever dealt with something like this?

Not a calf but a goat when she was born her back hock would go forward instead of back vet said just a loose tendon I fixed in about a week

 

[jshep]

It is very important for animals to get colostrum within 24 hours. This is onething l have found out

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Well, there you go! Ranging hormones can make them act "horny", aggressive, etc.

 

[Katpau]

I often see pregnant cows mounting cows in heat. I know because I record that activity and the date observed whenever it is noticed. It helps me to calculate due dates. The cow mounting will sometimes calve much earlier, indicating she was already pregnant. It would be unusual to see a pregnant cow mounted and standing for it, but chinning and jumping is not real unusual for certain cows. My notes in my little black book tell me who mounted and who stood, and it is always the standing cows that calve 9 months later, while the others may calve at any time including much earlier. I never assume a cow that is mounting another is in heat herself, although they often are.