hillsdown
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A few days ago I woke up to to find one of my favorite 2 year olds (my husbands favorite heifer dead). We were hauling a few calves that morning so I had them in the corral system ready to head out at the break of dawn. I had checked on them and Lady Lolita( as she was due to calve any day now) at 11:30pm the night before and everything was good. Lolita was laying down chewing her cud by the round bale feeder .
Do not know how the heck it happened , but she got herself cast and was unable to get back to her feet :cry2: . We have used these tire feeders to supplement grain or second cut alfalfa during a drought or a if we are feeding below par hay and need to add some supplements to them . We have never ever seen anything like this in our lives and have seen some freakish events happen in dairy and beef.
Just wish I would have found her in time to help her or the very least to put her down and cut her calf(s) out . We ended up having a post mortem done on her that afternoon and she was carrying twin heifers calves, they were already in position to come out so she most likely would have calved that day .
She comes from one of my favorite cow families, her mom is the sweetest, gentlest cow and raises a heck of a calf each year . She is also one of my dam of merit cows . Lolita had the same disposition as her dam; when we fed or walk through to check she some how always ended up by you for a quick scratch on the head .It was Lolita's aunt that I lost back in 2009 to a broken femur and had to be put down . Maybe this family has a blk cloud over its head .
Do not know how the heck it happened , but she got herself cast and was unable to get back to her feet :cry2: . We have used these tire feeders to supplement grain or second cut alfalfa during a drought or a if we are feeding below par hay and need to add some supplements to them . We have never ever seen anything like this in our lives and have seen some freakish events happen in dairy and beef.
Just wish I would have found her in time to help her or the very least to put her down and cut her calf(s) out . We ended up having a post mortem done on her that afternoon and she was carrying twin heifers calves, they were already in position to come out so she most likely would have calved that day .
She comes from one of my favorite cow families, her mom is the sweetest, gentlest cow and raises a heck of a calf each year . She is also one of my dam of merit cows . Lolita had the same disposition as her dam; when we fed or walk through to check she some how always ended up by you for a quick scratch on the head .It was Lolita's aunt that I lost back in 2009 to a broken femur and had to be put down . Maybe this family has a blk cloud over its head .