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<blockquote data-quote="f4leggin" data-source="post: 583894" data-attributes="member: 5863"><p>An update - the 5th heifer who I knew was going to deliver soon had a bull calf today. We had to pull it which was an incredible experience for us (myself and my horse friend who I called for moral support) - but it ended up fine. We thought for sure the calf was dead. Not having any experience with this sort of thing, it was as I'm sure it is for others who haven't done it before. I checked on her at 1 pm and saw two feet in the right position, watched her for about a hour and saw no good progress, walked her up the pen - and started trying to figure out how one goes about pulling a calf out from a heifer that won't stand still and let you get near. After awhile of watching and no progress, we put her in a small spot waited for the feet to come out, put some chains on the feet and the next time she started contracting, we started pulling. Thankfully the calf was in the right position, she just couldn't push it out on her own. Once we had it pulled alittle further along, she really got to business and helped us out by pushing as hard as we were pulling. The calf was born at 4:30 pm. </p><p></p><p>The funny thing is at one point, I said, I bought this calf puller awhile back, do you think we should try it out.. I pulled it out of the box, it had no instructions, lots of pieces, I thought there is no way I'm going to figure this one out - but it did have this small chain in there - and I thought that would be a good thing to pull with - we had been trying rope and other things that just wouldn't stay on. So, we used the chain (and found another one for the other foot) worked like a charm. </p><p></p><p>Flame suit on. </p><p></p><p>Jill</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="f4leggin, post: 583894, member: 5863"] An update - the 5th heifer who I knew was going to deliver soon had a bull calf today. We had to pull it which was an incredible experience for us (myself and my horse friend who I called for moral support) - but it ended up fine. We thought for sure the calf was dead. Not having any experience with this sort of thing, it was as I'm sure it is for others who haven't done it before. I checked on her at 1 pm and saw two feet in the right position, watched her for about a hour and saw no good progress, walked her up the pen - and started trying to figure out how one goes about pulling a calf out from a heifer that won't stand still and let you get near. After awhile of watching and no progress, we put her in a small spot waited for the feet to come out, put some chains on the feet and the next time she started contracting, we started pulling. Thankfully the calf was in the right position, she just couldn't push it out on her own. Once we had it pulled alittle further along, she really got to business and helped us out by pushing as hard as we were pulling. The calf was born at 4:30 pm. The funny thing is at one point, I said, I bought this calf puller awhile back, do you think we should try it out.. I pulled it out of the box, it had no instructions, lots of pieces, I thought there is no way I'm going to figure this one out - but it did have this small chain in there - and I thought that would be a good thing to pull with - we had been trying rope and other things that just wouldn't stay on. So, we used the chain (and found another one for the other foot) worked like a charm. Flame suit on. Jill [/QUOTE]
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