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<blockquote data-quote="CowgirlUpNY" data-source="post: 376643" data-attributes="member: 4092"><p>Well, the 'girls' came home yesterday. Because the one was due to drop any day, I wasn't comfortable just turning them into the field without them getting to know us or home. So we concocted a 'maternity pen'.</p><p></p><p>Off-loaded them, spent as much time as we could with them.</p><p></p><p>Got up this morning with my daughter, looked out the window up into the pasture and what do I see??? A calf!!! I had a feeling she would calve today, with the move yesterday and the cool temperatures last night, it just seemed right. Well the more I looked it didn't look like he was in the pen with Mom. Went and grabbed the binoculars and sure enough he was outside the pen. Threw on some clothes and trotted out to the pasture. Husband wasn't home from work yet so I knew I was taking a huge chance not knowing how this Mom would react to a 'stranger' handling her calf.</p><p></p><p>Well, I maneuvered him back into the pen with Mom and she went right to guiding him to her udder. He seemed to have a little trouble getting the teat and I called Husband to see how much longer it was going to be before he got home because I wasn't going into the pen alone.</p><p></p><p>It wasn't long and we helped guide him to the teat and hopefully all is well now. He's been navel dipped and taken care of.</p><p></p><p>He was clean and dry when I found him this morning so I can't say just how long (or HOW) he was outside of the pen.</p><p></p><p>So one down and one to go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CowgirlUpNY, post: 376643, member: 4092"] Well, the 'girls' came home yesterday. Because the one was due to drop any day, I wasn't comfortable just turning them into the field without them getting to know us or home. So we concocted a 'maternity pen'. Off-loaded them, spent as much time as we could with them. Got up this morning with my daughter, looked out the window up into the pasture and what do I see??? A calf!!! I had a feeling she would calve today, with the move yesterday and the cool temperatures last night, it just seemed right. Well the more I looked it didn't look like he was in the pen with Mom. Went and grabbed the binoculars and sure enough he was outside the pen. Threw on some clothes and trotted out to the pasture. Husband wasn't home from work yet so I knew I was taking a huge chance not knowing how this Mom would react to a 'stranger' handling her calf. Well, I maneuvered him back into the pen with Mom and she went right to guiding him to her udder. He seemed to have a little trouble getting the teat and I called Husband to see how much longer it was going to be before he got home because I wasn't going into the pen alone. It wasn't long and we helped guide him to the teat and hopefully all is well now. He's been navel dipped and taken care of. He was clean and dry when I found him this morning so I can't say just how long (or HOW) he was outside of the pen. So one down and one to go. [/QUOTE]
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