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Cesarean Section (GRAPHIC pics)

randiliana

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Just thought some of you might be interested in the process, our first C-section in over 5 years. At least it was in the middle of the afternoon yesterday, rather than at 3 am.

A combo of a pretty big calf and a small heifer sometimes = a C-section. Sometimes the genetics just don't work, other than this calf our biggest out of the heifer bull has been 76 lbs. This one weighed 99 lbs, shouldn't have needed a C-section for this calf, even as heavy as it was. Mama has a one way ticket to the sale barn once she heals up. We'll either adopt the baby onto another cow or sell it to someone that needs the same thing.

First step, all shaved
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Now, wash time
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The needle that is used to freeze her....
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The incision
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Making sure ONLY the right layers get cut
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Is that a foot
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It IS
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Out she comes...
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The left overs. They will get stuffed back in and she can deliver them the natural way
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Successful operation, live mama, live baby.
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Now to put her back together
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Just a few more stitches and she'll be done
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And that's it....
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Silver

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Thanks for sharing. The c-section is a dang inconvenience but does crop up from time to time. Seems like it never happens during the day either :cry:
Fortunately when the need does arise around here we look after it ourselves and avoid the long trip to town and the big bills. Someone told me that a c-section now costs somewhere around $400 around here. :shock:
 

randiliana

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For us it's only a 15 min drive. Cost was $330. We don't have the knowledge to do them ourselves, and when you only deal with one every 5 years or so I think I'd forget how to do it.....
 

Aaron

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Silver said:
Thanks for sharing. The c-section is a dang inconvenience but does crop up from time to time. Seems like it never happens during the day either :cry:
Fortunately when the need does arise around here we look after it ourselves and avoid the long trip to town and the big bills. Someone told me that a c-section now costs somewhere around $400 around here. :shock:

That's a heck of a deal for around here. That's the price I paid in 1998 for the last C-section we did.[/b]
 

OldDog/NewTricks

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And PETA and/or the SPCA are no anywhere in sight...
Why??
Because when it comes down to it ??
Who Really Cares???
Not just Now n Then But 24/7
People like US DO
 

gcreekrch

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Good job.
We can both do C-Sections if the need arises. The rule here is if we need a head snare to pull the head through the pelvis, the calf comes out the side door. A lot more live calves with this protocol and most of the mothers have bred back. I've never needed to put a second zipper in the few we have kept.
 

Soapweed

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One of our local vets did a C-section at a lady rancher's place quite a few years ago. He had the calf delivered and was sewing up the opening, with the lady studying the procedure intensely. He thought if the slit was cut a bit deeper it would drain better. The lady was baffled and asked why he made a longer cut after the calf was already out. Doc had his teeth clenched on his ever-present cigar, and replied, "I had cut too much thread and didn't want to waste any." It got the ol' gal's goat. :wink: :)
 

flyingS

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Soapweed said:
One of our local vets did a C-section at a lady rancher's place quite a few years ago. He had the calf delivered and was sewing up the opening, with the lady studying the procedure intensely. He thought if the slit was cut a bit deeper it would drain better. The lady was baffled and asked why he made a longer cut after the calf was already out. Doc had his teeth clenched on his ever-present cigar, and replied, "I had cut too much thread and didn't want to waste any." It got the ol' gal's goat. :wink: :)
I bet I know that old cigar chewer. He probably has as many goats as anybody around as far as goat get'n goes. :D
 

Soapweed

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flyingS said:
Soapweed said:
One of our local vets did a C-section at a lady rancher's place quite a few years ago. He had the calf delivered and was sewing up the opening, with the lady studying the procedure intensely. He thought if the slit was cut a bit deeper it would drain better. The lady was baffled and asked why he made a longer cut after the calf was already out. Doc had his teeth clenched on his ever-present cigar, and replied, "I had cut too much thread and didn't want to waste any." It got the ol' gal's goat. :wink: :)
I bet I know that old cigar chewer. He probably has as many goats as anybody around as far as goat get'n goes. :D

When my dad was a young boy, he started attending town school after having been in smaller country schools all of his earlier years. On the first day of town school, he didn't know any of the other kids attending. At the first recess one of the older boys was sewing up a baseball that had come apart. For lack of anything better to do, little Bobbie was intently watching Charlie doing this intricate procedure. Charlie was never one to mince words, and finally proclaimed, "Too bad you didn't get here sooner so you wouldn't have to look so da---d hard." :roll: :wink:
 
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