start of my calving season

[Dsth]

first group of 9 cows are due Dec. 13th - 15th. first one calved on Dec. 4th with no problem. second one had a set of twins B & H; of course she only want one so back to bottle feeding. third had to pull a backwards calf
but mom and baby doing OK after a little mouth to nostril CPR to get calf breathing. fourth cow also pulled backwards calf, this time calf puller needed since it was a bigger calf, but mom and baby doing good so far. cow number 5 had calf with no problem. my lovely wife is monitoring them now that I am back to work. She is a little nervous now after helping with two backwards calves since she will be by herself.

 

[wbvs58]

Hope the complications are behind you now. You did well getting those calves alive.

Ken

 

[MurraysMutts]

My goodness!
Good job on some good cowboy work!

 

[TCRanch]

Yikes, rough start to calving! But well done!

 

[simme]

Seems like those kinds of problems come all at once. Seems like you can go years without a calving problem and then have 3 big or backwards calves in 2 weeks. Same bulls, cows, management. Just a bunch of them at once and then no more for a long time. Hope your problems are behind you.

 

[jerry27150]

were you feeding some grain