Calf cage for my Hydrabed, not exactly routine trip--graffic

[Shortgrass]

This attatchment goes on the arm

The cage

Hooking up

in position to capture calves

traveling position over the bed
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captured as seen from the drivers seat

The thing that I enjoy more than keeping the cow away (most of my cows arn't too bad) is that this keeps the calf corralled. No chasing down the calf with both hands full and a vaccine gun in my teeth!

Customer numero two doesn't look good from here; whats all the blood?

Looks even worse from here. Guts on the outside. Call 911 and a dependable neighbor

we got everything stuffed in this hole, so now he sews her up

I'm really not going to puke, but this pic make you wonder! The calf that had no chance at all now has a fair chance if we can control infection.

On with business. This is more like it.

Little red booger

Just as I finished, Obama's new ambulance service called for directions. I told 'em where to go.

 

[Soapweed]

Looks like a pretty fancy calf cage that is quite functional. You should get a patent. :wink:

 

[Justin]

IMO, it looks like a wreck waitin' to happen. but that's probably just me. :wink:

 

[gcreekrch]

One wrinkled Dodge door comin' right up.

Looks like a servicable setup Shortgrass. We had a heifer gut her calf like that years back, my veterinary skills didn't save it. I think there was a twist in the gut that shouldn't have been there when it was replaced.

Good luck with yours.

 

[Faster horses]

Justin--You mean the Obama care EMS unit, the calf or the calf cage? :wink:

I sure hope the calf makes it.

 

[Howdy1]

I had a calf do the same thing a few years back. Cow licked the guts and might have hurt them before I found it. We put them back in and sewed it up. Calf was dead in a few hours. Hopefully your turns out better. We all need to save as many of those future $1000 dollar bills as we can, right.. right...$1000 calves this fall....you betcha! SOLD

 

[Shortgrass]

IMO, it looks like a wreck waitin' to happen. but that's probably just me. :wink:

Yer prolly rite. There is a pad where it would hit the door, but best not do that. I like it while its workin'

This is the second time I've had that. The first, several years ago, the cow stepped on the gut, & it died. This one is still alive tonight. It had no chance without us trying.

 

[Justin]

Justin--You mean the Obama care EMS unit, the calf or the calf cage? :wink:quote]

:lol: :lol:

i really like the idea of using a calf cage. i've looked in to getting one of the 4-wheeler mounted ones like Soapweed's. but i decided against it because of having to take it on and off all calving season when the machine is needed for other chores.

with this bale bed mounted cage, it looks to me you run the risk of of runnin the calf over with the pickup if the calf has some legs under him and u really got to run him down. i just wouldn't want the calf that close to the pickup. IMO

 

[Howdy1]

Glad to hear the calf is still going. I agree its amazing what we will do if there is any glimmer of hope. Where there is life, there is hope!!!

 

[Shortgrass]

Justin, if the calf is that mobile, I'll do something else. Catching the calf is fairly easy. Just follow the cow easy like until she starts to circle. They will circle away from the pu. The cage bounces quite a bit, so you it just dont work to go too fast, or wouldn't be any good in too rough or brushy of country. Day old is about it.

The calf was dead this am. Guess we tried; thats what we do.

 

[katrina]

Sorry to hear about the calf... dang it.... But I do have to say that you are what makes me sooooo proud to be a rancher and an american.... good ole american red, white and blue ingenuity.. I want one of those cages... I am such a chicken when it comes to tagging calves.... And those ole biddies know it.... I'm trying to figure out how to approach my hubby into letting me get one just like peach's.....

 

[Justin]

The calf was dead this am. Guess we tried; thats what we do.

sorry to hear that. can't say you didn't try.

 

[Shortgrass]

I would make one modifacation on the hook up on this cage. I would make the sleve on the arm longer so that it was the female portion. I would make the male portion on the cage. I think that would be stouter. It would extend the cage further forward a few inches, but still I would try it that way.

 

[Faster horses]

I admire you for trying to save the calf, Shortgrass. Sorry
it didn't work.
As for the calf catcher--anything that keeps a person safe
while tagging looks good to me.

 

[WB]

our vet said she had never saved an umbilical hernia before until two years ago we had one that was born via c-section in the vet hospital. Her husband noticed it before it actually became external and clamped it off. She seemed to indicate that it is probably hereditary.

 

[George]

I think the calf cage is like anything else good - - -it could always be improved on but I like it the way it is!

I make a lot of stuff around here but if have to make version #2 it almost always gets improved on.

 

[gcreekrch]

Too bad for the loss Shortgrass. Just remember, no matter how hard we try we can't kill them all. Still hurts though.