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<blockquote data-quote="boondocks" data-source="post: 1467685" data-attributes="member: 20599"><p>Thanks for all the input. I do think they were aiming generally in the right spot (all of them have dropped many a cow on the first shot. Heck the butcher does it day in and out. I hear what ya'll are saying but this is a guy that surely knows where to put a shot??? The whole thing is weird.). The animal was standing still and the gun was literally nearly touching her. (Can you get TOO close???). Maybe her brain was pea-sized...</p><p>To set the stage more fully (I didn't want the original background to be too long), we had put a CIDR in her then couldn't get her in the barn to get it out. (As mentioned, she went thru fence when we tried to get her in). Vet came out and it took 5 darts of rompum to get her dopey enough to where we could walk up and pull it out. (Even then she didn't lay down). She didn't run away, or get aggressive; would just walk away calmly and not let us get quiiiiiite close enough to yank it out. The vet said she'd given her enough tranq to have performed general surgery on her, or to put down a large bull. Vet said she'd likely chill back out (she'd always been a good, calm cow) so we figured it was a heat-related phase and she'd soon be back to her usual self. </p><p>Re potential illnesses, she didn't seem ill at all. Good appetite, had just been seen by vet. I don't think ana is seen much if at all in NY, and they're vaccinated for rabies. Also, when we weren't trying to get her in the barn, she was still perfectly fine. Would not run away, even stood for a small pat, her usual self...She just got a bee in her bonnet about the barn (which led to a bullet in her bonnet, or five). Unfortunate. AI sire is supposedly high docility, of course!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="boondocks, post: 1467685, member: 20599"] Thanks for all the input. I do think they were aiming generally in the right spot (all of them have dropped many a cow on the first shot. Heck the butcher does it day in and out. I hear what ya'll are saying but this is a guy that surely knows where to put a shot??? The whole thing is weird.). The animal was standing still and the gun was literally nearly touching her. (Can you get TOO close???). Maybe her brain was pea-sized... To set the stage more fully (I didn't want the original background to be too long), we had put a CIDR in her then couldn't get her in the barn to get it out. (As mentioned, she went thru fence when we tried to get her in). Vet came out and it took 5 darts of rompum to get her dopey enough to where we could walk up and pull it out. (Even then she didn't lay down). She didn't run away, or get aggressive; would just walk away calmly and not let us get quiiiiiite close enough to yank it out. The vet said she'd given her enough tranq to have performed general surgery on her, or to put down a large bull. Vet said she'd likely chill back out (she'd always been a good, calm cow) so we figured it was a heat-related phase and she'd soon be back to her usual self. Re potential illnesses, she didn't seem ill at all. Good appetite, had just been seen by vet. I don't think ana is seen much if at all in NY, and they're vaccinated for rabies. Also, when we weren't trying to get her in the barn, she was still perfectly fine. Would not run away, even stood for a small pat, her usual self...She just got a bee in her bonnet about the barn (which led to a bullet in her bonnet, or five). Unfortunate. AI sire is supposedly high docility, of course! [/QUOTE]
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